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This Is Not A Memorial, Kaitlin Burger
This Is Not A Memorial, Kaitlin Burger
Senior Honors Projects, 2010-2019
After the Vietnam / American War, both lives
and land were left devastated and still remain
scarred, acting as a tangible memory of the
violence that occurred on Vietnamese soil.
Craters the size of lakes cover the countryside.
People live daily with the injuries and birth
defects resulting from malicious warfare. Though
the fighting is over, the suffering is not. Also
left behind were thousands of pounds of unexploded
ordinance embedded into the landscape, waiting to
resurface. In many unfortunate cases, the
curiosity of children has lead them to these
brightly-colored objects and, thus, their death.
My architectural installation will …