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Vietnam Women's Memorial An estimated 11,500 women served our country in Vietnam, ninety percent of whom served in the health care professions, nursing and tending to the casualties of war. The difficult and heartrending nature of their role in Vietnam is the focus of the Vietnam Women's Memorial. The bronze statue depicts three women, one of whom is tending to a wounded soldier. Planted around the statue's plaza are eight trees to commemorate each of the women who died in Vietnam. The Memorial was dedicated in 1993 as part of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on the Mall. New Mexicans might want to know: Sculptor Glenna Goodacre of Santa Fe, New Mexico, designed the Vietnam Women's Memorial. Her work is featured in private and public collections, from gallery showings in Santa Fe to the Famine Memorial in Philadelphia, installed in February 2003. |