By Kelly Bauer
They work for hours, meeting in a small, upstairs room at the National Veterans Art Museum once a week. One volunteer reads the names and calls them out; anotherĀ thumbs through bunches of dog tags, looking for the match.
Ciallella, Clark and Cleveland are accounted for.
They were soldiers and MarinesĀ during the Vietnam War, all of them killed in action. Now, 50 years later,Ā five post-9/11 veterans are going through tens of thousands of dog tags, cleaning them and preparing themĀ to be shown in an exhibit called the Above and Beyond Memorial.Ā The exhibit will open Feb. 20 at Harold Washington Library.
In the end, there’ll be one for each member of the U.S. armed services killed in theĀ Vietnam War ā representing more than 58,300 lives lost.
The National Veterans Art Museum, which manages the Above and Beyond Memorial, first showed the exhibit at its South Loop buildingĀ in 2001. It became wildly popular, but the museum had to pack the dog tags into storage when it moved locations in 2012.
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