BGuthrie Photos: Natl Archives -- Art Beltrone and Jan Scruggs (Private History of Vietnam)

Natl Archives -- Art Beltrone and Jan Scruggs (Private History of Vietnam):

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Description of Pictures: The Private History of Vietnam: Art Beltrone and Jan Scruggs will discuss two books honoring those who served during the Vietnam War. Beltrone, author of Vietnam Graffiti: Messages from a Forgotten Troopship (Howell Press, 2004), tells the story of the troopship Gen. Nelson M. Walker. Beltrone discovered that the ship contained hundreds of bunk canvases covered with inked messages that reveal the thoughts of people on their way to a combat zone. Scruggs, founder and president of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, discusses Offerings at the Wall: Artifacts from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Collection (Turner Publishing, 1995). The first offering at the wall—a Purple Heart thrown into the memorial's cement as it was being poured—presaged the flood of items that visitors would leave at the memorial. Scruggs' book provides a glimpse of some of the 30,000 objects commended to the dead.
Introductions were provided by Richard Boylan, Senior Military Archivist, National Archives and Records Administration.

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1. NAVIET_050526_034.JPG: Richard Boylan
2. NAVIET_050526_066.JPG: Jan Scruggs and Richard Boylan
3. NAVIET_050526_112.JPG: Jan Scruggs @ the National Archives
4. NAVIET_050526_179.JPG: Richard Boylan and Jan Scruggs
5. NAVIET_050526_194.JPG: Vietnam Graffiti Bunk Canvases: Group of graffiti-marked bunk canvases found aboard the troopship "General Nelson M. Walker" in 1997. The graffiti was left by American soldiers going to Vietnam in the 1960's. The canvases, removed from the "Walker" by the Vietnam Graffiti Project, are part of a study collection to be maintained by the new National Museum of the United States Army.
6. NAVIET_050526_213.JPG: Andrew Hagan, Alli Jessing, ???, and Richard Boylan
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