Author: Suzie Sours Israel

The north’s efforts to protect the population from the incessant bombing. I called it “Personal Bomb Shelter” in my journal. America tends to remain blissfully unaware of what we did and how strong was our adversary.

Meant to show the person who was as cruel as he was and that we supported him in that cruelty. I thought of the painting as “The Despot Dinh Diem”.

Probably begun on 11/10 or so. A different painting for my skill level meant to portray the need for the Diem regime to force labor rather than depend on loyalty and patriotism.

There was some awareness of the truth of what was happening on the ground in the Nam but we were going to war and it would be treasonous to acknowledge it. This statement is only possible now although it was reality then. Perhaps “The Cruelty of Civil War”. At the time of painting I had…

We trained on the M-14 which is depicted in this painting. We are also working on the dehumanization of our enemy as we learn to shoot. Although this is the 3rd painted I considered it should be 2nd in the series.

I was seeking to portray the results of training. We were ready to protect democracy and our people from Communism, the Chinese hordes and the Evil of Ho Chi Minh and his oppressive regime. I have called this painting “Transformed” as it progresses. “We who are about to die” is another title.

My first in the series, At this point I had an idea to do something about the Vietnam experience but little in the way of images and where to go with it all. I simply called it “Draftee” or “Recruit”. Either then or later I thought to add “Tell me again why Canada was a…