Sponsor:
Kentucky Vietnam Veterans
Memorial Foundation, Inc.
The design concept is in the form of a large sundial. The stainless steel
gnomon casts its shadow upon a granite plaza. The names of 1,103 Kentuckians
lost in the war are engraved into the plaza, including 23 missing in action.
Each name is placed so that the tip of the shadow touches his name on the
anniversary of his death, thus giving each fallen veteran his personal Memorial
Day.
The location of each name is fixed mathematically, by the date of
casualty, the geographic location of the memorial, the height of the gnomon and
the physics of solar movement. The stones were then designed and cut to avoid
dividing any individual name. The resulting radial-concentric joint pattern
suggests a "web", symbolic of the entangling nature of this war.
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