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WASHINGTON - After two hours of often stirring testimony, the Commission of Fine Arts Thursday voted 4-1 to reject the proposed Vietnam Women's Memorial, the key element of which is a bronze statue of a nurse at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Constitution Gardens.
Commissioners who opposed the addition expressed their beliefs that the veterans memorial is symbolically complete and that to approve the proposal would establish a precedent for placing other figurative statues there. ``It will never end,`` said Chairman J. Carter Brown, referring to other proposals.
Reaction was...