“The massive “Above and Beyond Memorial” will be installed at the National Veterans Art Museum, The Harold Washington Library, and go on display starting Feb. 20, culminating a painstaking search to find a suitable — although temporary — home for the 58,000 replica dog tags honoring those who died as a result of their service in the war that stretched from March 1965 to May 1975.
“They work for hours, meeting in a small, upstairs room at the National Veterans Art Museum once a week… five post-9/11 veterans are going through tens of thousands of dog tags, cleaning them and preparing them to be shown in an exhibit””The breadth of it was just … it shows you the enormity of what the cost of that war was,” Oitzinger said. “And it shows you in a very tangible way. The “five post-9/11 veterans are going through tens of thousands of dog tags, each bearing the name of a Vietnam War veteran. All of the dog tags will be displayed so visitors can see the cost of the war, organizers said. [DNAinfo/Kelly Bauer]
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