{"id":7940,"date":"2011-11-11T09:10:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-11T15:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=7940"},"modified":"2012-04-16T09:21:18","modified_gmt":"2012-04-16T14:21:18","slug":"memorials-for-vietnam-afghanistan-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/7940","title":{"rendered":"Memorials for Vietnam, Afghanistan, &amp; Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>November 13 is the anniversary of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.history.com\/this-day-in-history\/vietnam-veterans-memorial-dedicated\" title=\"Vietnam Veterans Memorial from History Channel web site\" target=\"_blank\">1982 dedication of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial<\/a> in Washington, D.C.  It&#8217;s known to stir powerful emotions in its visitors.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/images\/library\/blog\/rotf.jpg\" alt=\"Poster for Rise of the Fallen commemoration exhibit\" class=\"alignright\" \/><strong>Another powerful commemoration can be seen in the UC Fiskum Gallery through November 14th<\/strong>, created by UWW Art faculty Andre Ferella: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/uc.uww.edu\/common\/images\/Posters\/11_3RiseOfTheFallen.pdf\" title=\"Rise of the Fallen exhibit poster\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Rise of the Fallen: Spirit Box Veterans Exhibit<\/strong><\/a>.&#8221; I urge you to see it. There will be a <strong>reception today (Friday, Nov. 11) from noon-1:30 p.m.<\/strong> This exhibit commemorates &#8220;106 Wisconsin service men and women that gave their lives fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq.&#8221; You can learn more about this commemoration and see images from it on its web site, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theriseofthefallen.org\/theproject.html\" title=\"The Rise of the Fallen web site\" target=\"_blank\">The Rise of the Fallen<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Andersen Library has some materials on war memorials. A search of HALCAT would find titles such as <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=2lzIQgAACAAJ&amp;source=gbs_ViewAPI\" title=\"Googe Books summary of title Carried To The Wall\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Carried to the wall: American memory and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial<\/em><\/a> (3rd-floor Main Collection, DS559.83.W18 H33 1998) and <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=C_38PwAACAAJ&amp;source=gbs_ViewAPI\" title=\"Google Books summary of World War II Memorial\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The World War II Memorial: a grateful nation remembers<\/em><\/a> (3rd-floor Main Collection, D836.W37 W68 2004).<\/p>\n<p>Please <a href=\"http:\/\/library.uww.edu\/askwi\/askwi.html\" title=\"Ask a Librarian\" target=\"_blank\">ask a librarian<\/a> for assistance with finding materials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 13 is the anniversary of the 1982 dedication of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. It&#8217;s known to stir powerful emotions in its visitors. Another powerful commemoration can be seen in the UC Fiskum Gallery through November 14th, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/7940\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,2768,34],"tags":[178,17819,1784,623,2378,887,3226,17820,17818,17817,658],"class_list":["post-7940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-library","category-around-wisconsin","category-campus-connection","tag-books","tag-casualities","tag-commemorations","tag-exhibits","tag-military","tag-veterans","tag-veterans-day","tag-veterans-week","tag-war-memorials","tag-wars","tag-web-sites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7940"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7944,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7940\/revisions\/7944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}