The Non War Memorial

One of the exhibits at the Whitney was called "An Incomplete History of Protests."  It included photographs of protests, and paintings and posters.  And this:  These uniforms on the floor are part of a proposed exhibit called "The Non War Memorial."  It was envisioned that there would be up to 50,000 of these uniforms filled with sand, and installed in a field in Idaho, and then left to deteriorate from the weather.  When this was proposed in 1970,  48,000 members of the U.S. Military had died in Vietnam, and there was no end in sight. Boy, that would have been a powerful thing to see.