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The
Vietnam Women's Memorial completed
the
circle of healing at the Vietnam
Veterans
Memorial.
The names of the eight military
women
who died in Vietnam are inscribed on
the
Wall, but the statue of the Three
Servicemen
did
not reflect the women who served.
Congress
authorized the Vietnam Women's
Memorial
in 1988 to honor the "women of the
armed
forces of the United States who served
in
the Republic of Vietnam during the
Vietnam
era."
Sculptor Glenna Goodacre of Santa Fe,
New
Mexico was selected to design the bronze
statue
that depicts three women, one of whom is
tending
to a wounded soldier.
The
statue is six feet, eight inches tall
and
weighs
one ton. Planted around the statue's
plaza
are eight trees to commemorate each of
the
women who died in Vietnam.
The
Vietnam Women's Memorial was dedicated
in
1993, as part of the Vietnam Veterans
Memorial.
A
Legacy Of Healing and Hope
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