James McNeely
Born: St. Paul, Minnesota, 1949
Served in Vietnam, U.S. Army
196th LiB, Americal Division
Chu Lai
Squad Leader, 1969-70
From the Artist:
So much of the art of Vietnam veterans, created just after they came home, is full of pain and ghosts. I made my first sculpture twelve years after leaving Vietnam. The gesture of the soldier, who has just found an enemy cache, is one of victory or celebration; for me, it is the gesture of being one step closer to home.
