Vietnam War Memorial PROJECT

This is the sculpture grouping that artist Vivian Westerman started in 1971.  Senator Vance Hartke (D-Indiana) of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Committee on Veterans Affairs, introduced S. Res. 100, April 17, 1973 for her proposed Vietnam Memorial  to be placed in the Russell Office Building Rotunda, Washington, D.C. 

 Unfortunately, for all of us - such arrangements were never concluded. These wonderfully emotional and spiritual tributes to Vietnam Veterans were destroyed during the casting. 

Visit this artist's Vietnam collection at her website.

http://www.cartoons-tomorrow.com/vietnam_memorial.htm

Vivian's own profile from her website:

Vivian Westerman is 60 years old and  worked as a Portrait Artist/Cartoonist on Jackson Square, the French Quarter, in New Orleans, Louisiana for 10 years.   Read of my experiences  in the French Quarter  at 1999 - Jackson Square, New Orleans

 My work experience began with insurance in Dallas, Texas, and  then onto New York City as a stewardess for American Airlines.  My main interest has always been politics, and I worked for the Rockefeller Presidential Campaign in NYC in 1964 (read my story at 1964 - Rockefeller Presidential Campaign); for CBS Network News; and then onto Washington, D.C. to the 1968 Humphrey Presidential Campaign (read my story at 1968 - Where were you? Humphrey Presidential Campaign). The era was the Vietnam War. 

I have worked for major political figures, and as a legal secretary part-time  for 10 of the 20th largest law firms in the country.    In 1977 while living in Washington, D.C., I pursued and received a grant from the Fund for Investigative Journalism and wrote a series of articles on the practices of the National Zoo  and the Smithsonian Institution (read my story at 1977 - National Zoo).

My interest in science  was heightened by meeting some very interesting  nuclear scientists who worked at Argonne National Laboratory (see: http://www.anl.gov), outside of Chicago, Illinois.  I tried to understand science secrets in 1979 (see my story at 1979 - Of Art, the Ayatollah, Oil, Mellon & Fusion).

                                          
                                               1996
  
                                               
                                                1973

                                                      
                                               1964    

Webmaster note: She has some very good works of art and a very interesting life story to tell - great website to visit. We thank her for her efforts on behalf of all Vietnam Veterans.

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