University Daily Kansan / Wednesday Aug. 23, 1989
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Remembering the fallen
The Vietnam Memorial was dedicated in Marvin Grove, at the west end of Memorial Drive, in 1986. Original plans called for the memorial to be built in the Chandler Court, south of the Burge Union. Those plans were scrapped when members of the Vietnam Memorial Committee in 1984 learned that the site faced a party room In the Burge Union.
Committee members decided that the Chandler Court site was too far away to be noticed by students and that the proximity to the party room would detract from the memorial's impact.
that the proximity to the party room would distract from the memorial because the new site was smaller, the two students who designed the memorial had to revise their plans. Original plans called for nine limestone posts standing eight feet apart with three large slabs surrounding a pool. The figures of three soldiers — one wounded, his two friends supporting him — were to be cast in bronze.
About $30,000, primarily from donations, was spent to construct the memorial.
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