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The Vietnam women's memorial, a bronze sculpture of three women nurses and a wounded male soldier, won warm praise and stirred some bittersweet memories when sponsors showed it off downtown Friday.
The sponsors are taking the sculpture on a nationwide tour before it is installed Nov. 11 at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington. The tour brought the sculpture here for a day before heading to Indianapolis.
About 150 people attended the ceremony Friday morning outside St. Louis Centre. Speakers and observers almost unanimously described the sculpture's creation as a long overdue recognition of the 11,000 military women who served in Vietnam and the eight nurses who died there.
"It brings back the realism of that war over there, and it's a good opportunity to look back," said Army Lt. Col. Rosa O'Brien, who was...