> In the last few years i have performed 2 times at the Vietnam Veterans
> Memorial in Washington DC, both Memorial Day and Veterans Day of the 10
> Anniversary year. i am listed on their stationary as a member of the
> Honorary Advisory Committee and have been since 1982. i have built the
> world's first ever interactive war memorial on the City of Berkeley
> California Home Page, its 4th Anniversary will be this Veterans Day 2000. i
> was instrumental in having a bronze placque installed permanently on the
> City of Berkeley Veterans' Memorial Building. i was instrumental in having
> the City of Beacon, New York, the home town of the folk singer Peter
> Seeger, honor its Vietnam War Casualties. i have been working now for 5
> years on getting the city of San Francsico California to honor it's 162
> Vietnam War Casualites with a bronze placque and also an internet Memorial
> Site. i plan to discuss the same with Mayor Jerry Brown of Oakland
> California to coincide with the Oakland Museum's 2003 exhibit NEXT STOP IS
> VIETNAM. i have facilitated the presence on a travelling Vietnam War
> Memorial in the City of Berkeley, and San Francisco, California. i was
> instrumental in having a travelling Vietnam War Memorial present at the
> 30th Anniversary Celebration in Golden Gate Park a few years back and a
> reading of all of the names of those Americans killed in the American War
> in Vietnam during the Summer of Love.
As a U S Navy volunteer enlistee and honorably discharged Vietnam War Era
Veteran i assume the responsibility of honoring the deaths of my comrades in
the military during that conflict. As the only visible person from my
generation who is not only a known anti war activist, a red diaper baby and a
Vietnam Era military veteran i have taken it upon myself to try and
facilitate the wounds inflicted upon my generation by the American War in
Vietnam. i am not ashamed of my anti war activities, my Communist background
nor my military service.
i am curious if the list has any comments or thoughts on this subject of
memorializing the American Vietnam War dead.
cheers, country joe mcdonald
-- "Ira Furor Brevis Est " - Anger is a brief madness
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