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Vietnam vets protest war monument design
, .1 United Press International
1 t LOS ANGELES — They say
*’s what they remember when
jinking of Vietnam — a rifle
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standing muzzle down in the mud,
the generations-old symbol of a
fallen infantryman.
They want to see that symbol
towering over Arlington National
Cemetery, three stories high, the
black plastic of the M-16s they car
ried to a faraway war transmuted
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to black marble, shot with veins of
red, the precision machinery of
the receiver reproduced in a mas
sive aluminum casting, all sup
ported by a column of steel barrel.
The Vietnam War, the most
divisive modern conflict in mod
em American history, cannot
even be memorialized without
drawing a protest.
A group of Vietnam veterans,
outraged at plans to build what
they consider an inappropriate or
insulting memorial in Washing
ton, want to replace or upstage it
with one of their own design,
based on the rifle-in-the-earth
sign of a dead soldier.
“This is what we saw with tears
in our eyes after a fight, rows of
M-16s stuck in the ground by their j
bayonets,” Steve Androff, vice
president of the United Veterans
Coalition, said.
Funds are now being raised for
a $7 million Vietnam War Memo
rial to be built near the Lincoln
Memorial. The group behind the
drive was headed by a Vietnam
combat veteran, Jann Scruggs.
The design, chosen from more
than 1,400, was submitted by
Maya Ying Lin, a 21-year-old Yale
architecture student. Two 200-
foot-long polished black granite
walls would be sunk below ground
level, meeting in an inverted “V, ”
bearing the names of all 57,000
servicemen killed in the war.
“We think we know better than
a bunch of strangers what should
stand in Washington to remember
our brothers by,” Androff said.
“Look at who’s raising funds for
this — Bob Hope, Gen. West
moreland, all those people who
kept the war rolling and our blood
flowing.”
Androff said his group is prepar
ing to launch a national campaign
to have their idea for a monument
replace the controversial design
approved in Washington.
“We have 3,600 members,” he
said, “and I’m sure many more
veterans would join us in this.
“We also have some support
from Vietnam veterans in Con
gress, who agree with us that a
black marble slab isn’t much of a
monument.”
Androff, a commercial artist
who served in the 1st Infantry Di
vision, has drawn up plans for the
enormous rifle monument, and
would like it to be built entirely by
Vietnam Veterans and placed in
Arlington “with the Marine
memorial to Iwo Jima, the tombs
of the unknown soldiers — some
thing we can look up to instead of
down into the earth.
“There are great artists,
architects, engineers, craftsmen,
all who served in Vietnam,” he
said. “We’d need welders, stone
cutters, machinists, and from the
reaction I’ve gotten from other
veterans, I don’t think I’ll have
trouble finding them.”
He estimates the monumental
rifle would cost $3 million, and
concedes there is no money avail
able to build it now.
“But, our lawyers are drawing
up papers to apply for nonprofit
status so we can accept donations,
and I’m preparing a poster that
will show what the memorial
would look like to raise funds for
it.
There have been several pro
tests against the current design
plans, including complaints that
its shape echoes the v-fingered
peace sign, symbolic of many who
refused to fight in the war while
others served.
Another Vietnam veteran,
twice-wounded West Point grad
Tom Carhart, appealed to the
Capital Fine Arts Commission
Tuesday to re-open the design
competition, saying black was
“the color of dishonor” and the
monument is “a black grave in the
earth.”
“This monument has become
symbolic of the Vietnam War, and
like the war it’s getting people bit
terly divided,” said ForrestLim
ley, a correspondent for Stars an
Stripes who was a captain in
Green Berets.
“The sad thing is that the mom
ment is becoming a symbol fortl
frustration and bitterness andatj
ger of Vietnam veterans.
“Everybody sees in Vieb
what they want to see, and tin
isn’t going to be any one des|
that all Vietnam veterans
agree sums up their feelings
honors those who served ail
those who died.
“The monument, any moi
ment, is not going to solve tkl
problems of the Vietnam vein
ans, no matter what the design,!
won’t touch substantive issued
like Agent Orange.
“If this controversy grows, in'
stead of healing the wounds Viet,
nam left, which was the idea be
hind it, the Memorial may just]
make them worse.”
Budget revision suggested
Hance proposes defense cut
Whole Earth's Big
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Rep. Kent
Hance, a major ally of the adminis
tration in past budget and tax
fights, says President Reagan
should consider revising his new
budget cutting package to help its
chances of getting through Con
gress.
The Texas Democrat is propos
ing a larger defense cut, a smaller
reduction in controllable domestic
spending and revival of a proposal
to delay cost of living increases to
Social Security and other federal
benefit recipients.
He also wants to defer the
second and third installments of
the personal tax cut which he
sponsored in the House this
summer.
Jim Rock, a Hance staff aide,
said Wednesday the congressman
has talked with administration
officials and with Republican lead
ers. Rock said Hance hopes to
offer his package as an amendment
to the final budget resolution that
must be passed by Congress this
year.
“I think it’s beginning to look
like an option,” Rock said. “I think
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Hance, in a speech Tuesday di
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be “difficult for the president to
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than $10 billion of his savings re
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“I believe a reduction more in
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tive,” he said.
His proposal would cut $5 bil
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buildup instead of the $2 biHion
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percent across-the-board from
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months the July 1982 installment
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Reagan has proposed a 12 per
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trollable domestic spending that
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On the defense cut, he said:
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in projected defense increases
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