 Ned Broderick,
Chicago, Illinois
Co-founder and president, National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum - He spent 19 months in Vietnam in a Marine Corps infantry
squadron
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 "I couldn’t even begin to imagine what my life would be like if I hadn’t gone to Vietnam. God knows what I’d be doing. I wouldn’t be an artist, first of all. And I just wouldn’t have any of the things that I have that are important to me. I wouldn’t have the value system that I have because there was no place else to draw it from. To be in that situation where people almost on a daily level were giving up their lives to save other people was really so powerful I can’t even begin to explain. And for that to have gone on consistently for so long is just the beginning of everything else."
"I think anyone that went through that business is absolutely amazed at what you can do. How long you can go without sleep, how long you can go without food, how people can pull together and do the most impossible things. All people. And that was always something to see. I’m always very proud of the people I knew there."
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