This series of almost 60 paintings was started on 10/7/13 and completed on 3/13/16.
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#1 “Draftee” or “Recruit” (10/7/13)
My first in the series, At this point I had an idea to do something about the Vietnam experience…
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#2 “A Soldier is Made” (10/11/13)
I was seeking to portray the results of training. We were ready to protect democracy and our people from…
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#3 “Tools of the Trade” (10/17/13)
We trained on the M-14 which is depicted in this painting. We are also working on the dehumanization of…
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#4 “The Cruelty of Civil War” (10/23/13)
There was some awareness of the truth of what was happening on the ground in the Nam but we…
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#5 “Forced Labor” (11/14/13)
Probably begun on 11/10 or so. A different painting for my skill level meant to portray the need for…
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#6 “Diem” (11/16/13)
Meant to show the person who was as cruel as he was and that we supported him in that…
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#7 “Bomb Shelter” or “Roadside Bunker” (11/26/13)
The north’s efforts to protect the population from the incessant bombing. I called it “Personal Bomb Shelter” in my…
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#8 “Ho Chi Minh Trail” (12/12/13)
“To depict the rudimentary engineering that nation reverted to in the transportation of men and equipment while we had…
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#9 “Ho Chi Minh” (12/18/13)
“Ho Chi Minh” Post WWII. My admiration for this person is tremendous. That he was able to do what…
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#10 “Theiu and Johnson in the Cone of Silence” (12/23/13)
Theirs was a puppet installed by Johnson and in this I have Johnson telling Theiu what to do and…
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#11 “Vietnamese Nationals 1907” (begun 12/25/13, finished 1/5/14)
“Maybe my favorite painting, at least in the top 5. Ho Chi Minh would have witnessed this event or…
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#12 “Cherries Come to War” (1/7/14)
It is difficult to begin to tell this part of the story — so much guilt and shame and…
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#13 “Wounded Warrior” (1/16/14)
I’m not sure about this one but I think I have it trying to portray how were were influenced…
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#14 “You in the Nam (1/20/14)”
The stark reality of it all. A lot of emotional turmoil at this point in telling the story.
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#15 “The Business of Making the World Safe for Democracy” (1/28/14)
Continued self doubt and psychosis We have become everything we were taught is wrong.