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...Faulkner famously said. “It isn’t even past.” As if to prove him right, the press stayed busy last week exploring the dubious narrative of how President Bush got into, and out of, service in the National Guard during the Vietnam War, eyeing its implications for the coming election. Not to be outdone, Republicans seized on a recently unearthed Crimson interview of John Kerry from his youthful war-protesting days, as well as two photos (one real, one forged) of him appearing within sight of Jane Fonda, hated to this...
This was especially relevant to the jury of the WTC memorial, as one of its most prominent members, Maya Lin, famously had her big break when she won the Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial competition as a Yale architecture student. Although Walker brings expertise to the table, his role has been to heighten the virtues of Arad’s design that jurors recognized from the outset...
...Valkenburgh compared the WTC and Vietnam memorials, finding the merits of each in their differential treatment of the dialectic of minimalism. “I think Maya’s project, the Vietnam Memorial, is extremely beautiful...but I don’t think it’s about absence. It’s a powerful object,” says Van Valkenburgh. He points out that in contrast, “[Arad]’s initial idea was that the Hudson flowed into these displaced tower voids...
Room 13 places great emphasis on both honesty and confidentiality. It was founded during the Vietnam War as a place where students who feared the establishment could come and discuss various issues. Back then, it was in a room actually numbered 13. “We will never acknowledge that a person has used Room 13 on campus unless that person brings it up,” Stephanopoulos says...
DIED. THOMAS H. MOORER, 91, Chief of Naval Operations during the Vietnam War (1967-70) and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1970-74); in Bethesda, Md. In a 1998 CNN documentary and an accompanying TIME story, he was quoted as confirming that U.S. forces had used nerve gas in Laos during the Vietnam War. Moorer denied he ever said that, and both CNN and TIME retracted the charges and apologized...