{"id":26,"date":"2012-06-20T11:58:51","date_gmt":"2012-06-20T16:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burkhart-sculptor.com\/rosecrans\/?p=26"},"modified":"2022-06-14T10:35:30","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T18:35:30","slug":"rosecrans-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/burkhart-sculptor.com\/rosecrans\/rosecrans-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Rosecrans 9:  The Howling of Impotence"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Rosecrans 9\" src=\"http:\/\/www.burkhart-sculptor.com\/rosecrans\/images\/rosecrans9.jpg\" alt=\"Rosecrans 9\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Journal Entry for Sketch #9<br \/>\nMay 18th The Vietnam War Dead<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Today I decide to focus on the Vietnam Dead since I feel that I have made my peace for the moment with the Iraq dead and need to start moving back in history to other wars. As with the Iraq dead I follow my intuition and am lead to drive to a large group of gravestones that are all from Vietnam\u201448 dead in all. Most of these stones bear the acronyms &#8220;PH&#8221;, &#8220;SS&#8221;, or &#8220;BSM&#8221; signifying they have received either a Purple Heart or Service Medals for valor in war. I count 30 Purple Hearts among the group but observe only one bouquet of flowers on all the graves. A red and white carnation with a fern on the grave of Lance Corporal Byron Randall Duke, U.S. Marine Corps who died on January 31, 1968.<\/p>\n<p>I walk through the group of graves and finally am lead to what I am looking for, a man who died on this same day:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><strong>John Webster McCormick, Jr.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> California<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Ens US Navy<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Vietnam<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> PH &amp; SS<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> 1\/9\/47-5\/18\/67<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Dead at 20 years of age<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>This is where I sketch today.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.burkhart-sculptor.com\/rosecrans\/rosecrans-10\">&gt;&gt; Journal Entry for Sketch #10<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.burkhart-sculptor.com\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.burkhart-sculptor.com\/rosecrans\/images\/website.gif\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Journal Entry for Sketch #9 May 18th The Vietnam War Dead Today I decide to focus on the Vietnam Dead since I feel that I have made my peace for the moment with the Iraq dead and need to start moving back in history to other wars. As with the Iraq dead I follow my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sculptures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/burkhart-sculptor.com\/rosecrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/burkhart-sculptor.com\/rosecrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/burkhart-sculptor.com\/rosecrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/burkhart-sculptor.com\/rosecrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/burkhart-sculptor.com\/rosecrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/burkhart-sculptor.com\/rosecrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":255,"href":"http:\/\/burkhart-sculptor.com\/rosecrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions\/255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/burkhart-sculptor.com\/rosecrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/burkhart-sculptor.com\/rosecrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/burkhart-sculptor.com\/rosecrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}