OOS Sculpture

Vietnam Veterans of America Memorial

11/11/2009 / Creator Unknown / Fostoria

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This memorial features a stone parallelograms diagonally intersecting to create a stepped abstract design with words and an emblem on the recessed part and an etching on the front most part. The writing says: Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 440; around the base it says All Gave Some... Some Gave All. The front etching depicts three U.S. Vietnam soldiers looking off into the distance. On the back there is an etching of a simple map of Vietnam, several military department emblems (Air Force, Marines, Navy, Army, and Coast Guard), and a POW • MIA logo.

All around the sculpture there are four benches that have the various donors carved into the back rest of each bench.

Location: Fostoria Fointain Cemetery, Van Buren Street

County

: Hancock

Citation

: “Vietnam Veterans of America Memorial,” Ohio Outdoor Sculpture , accessed September 28, 2023, http://oos.sculpturecenter.org/items/show/1554.

Title

Vietnam Veterans of America Memorial

Description

This memorial features a stone parallelograms diagonally intersecting to create a stepped abstract design with words and an emblem on the recessed part and an etching on the front most part. The writing says: Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 440; around the base it says All Gave Some... Some Gave All. The front etching depicts three U.S. Vietnam soldiers looking off into the distance. On the back there is an etching of a simple map of Vietnam, several military department emblems (Air Force, Marines, Navy, Army, and Coast Guard), and a POW • MIA logo.

All around the sculpture there are four benches that have the various donors carved into the back rest of each bench.

Date

11/11/2009

Subject

Wars

Publisher

Ohio Outdoor Sculpture

Identifier

1554

Location City

Fostoria

Location County

Hancock

Provider Qualifier

Erected by

Provider Entity

Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 440

Location Street

Van Buren Street

Installation Date

11/11/2009

Materials

stone