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in front of a replica
of the Vietnam War
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Memorial Wall with
teachers Hope Palmer,
Melinda Wilcox, Karen
Feder and Steven Deeb.
Students take time to pinpoint specific names on
the Vietnam War Memorial Wall replica.
writing term papers on the war. One
student even brought in and inter-
viewed a Vietnam War veteran in front
of the class.
Hope Palmer of Huntington Woods
and Karen Feder of Howell, art teach-
ers at the school for seven years each,
have their classes studying all forms
of 1960s art, including pop art, visual
arts and graphics, three-dimensional
images and drawings of the war pho-
tos. "The kids love the study because
they can ask their parents and grand-
parents to discuss it with them:'
Palmer said.
Feder, a ceramics specialist, asked
the students to craft full-face masks
expressing their feelings about the
war and recreating famous war
photos, such as the award-winning
Associated Press picture of the crying,
naked Vietnamese girl running from
a napalm attack. Feder also designed
the main set for Hair, "a very anti-
establishment scene depicting a bank
and other buildings:' she said.
A highlight of the study was a
symposium March 29 in the school's
packed auditorium. Two pre-eminent
Vietnam War scholars discussed .
"Lessons Learned From Vietnam." Dr.
George C. Herring, emeritus profes-
sor of history at the University of
Kentucky, and Dr. Robert K. Brigham,
professor of history and interna-
tional relations at Vassar College, both
called the Vietnam conflict "a limited,
restricted war; the war that never
seems to go away."
Said Herring: "It was a peculiarly
frustrating mar because we never set
out to win it. And the country is still
divided over it:'
Brigham, comparing the Vietnam
War with the Iraq War, and using the
same "quagmire" references, pointed
out that U.S. combatants in the
Iraq War total. only 5 percent of the
Vietnam War combatants and that
the current war is being fought by
volunteers with an average age of 28,
compared to mainly draftees with an
average age of 18 iri Vietnam.
"The media coverage is a lot dif-
ferent now. There's more censorship;
we're not allowed to see body bags
and caskets:' he said.
He added that the feeling among
historians now is that Secretary of
Defense Donald Rumsfeld is doing
a "bad impersonation" of Robert S. •
McNamara, defense secretary during
the Vietnam War. ❑
Contact Susan erartenberg, Director of 0-an Shalom Parenting Center
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248-547-7970 or email sgartenberg@congbethshalom.org
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