When Jan Scruggs, armed with his graduate school research into the psychosocial effect of the Vietnam War on military veterans, started his campaign to build a national monument to them, he envisioned it to be a therapeutic place.
It was 1977. The wounds of the country, and of the veterans of the controversial war, were still raw.
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