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...Viet Nam veterans represented in Sculptor Frederick Hart's monument. Theresa C. Girardi Fond...
...gives a slightly mordant dimension to the panorama of St. Louis and its Gateway Arch by shooting from East St. Louis with the littered river shore in the foreground. Throughout, Ruetz exploits the interplay of light and landscape at dawn and sunset: in a pair of striking pictures of Monument Valley, for example, and in a dramatic gatefold of Bryce Canyon, where the sunrise just burnishes the tops of the canyon's pinnacles. Dark skies and heavy clouds brood over the land in many of his photos; one, looking across California's fog-shrouded Central Valley from...
...dedication ceremony marked a double triumph. A Washington television station, WDVM, which had earlier charged Scruggs and other veteran organizers with misappropriating funds for the monument, retracted the story, apologized and contributed $50,000 to the memorial fund. Noting that Viet Nam vets, unlike those of America's earlier wars, were forced to build their own memorial, Scruggs said, "As it turned out, the monument has more of an impact being done privately. It was Viet Nam veterans taking care of their buddies...
...some, the weekend came close to achieving that end. "If the country rejected us, and it did," said John Ruehlmann, 37, a former Army sergeant, "we can get together here, bound by the monument." That harmony was expressed in a variety of ways, from a candlelight vigil to a '60s nostalgia concert by Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons; the mood throughout shuttled between tearful meditation and joyous, beery reunions. At the end, just about everyone seemed to feel a little better...
...monument," explained Everett Alvarez Jr., a Navy veteran who was the first American pilot to be shot down over North Viet Nam, "marks the final step of dedicated effort to overcome the past...