Summary
SAN PEDRO -- Scrawled on the bottom of the ship's suspended canvas bunks, the messages are a jumble of hometown pride, girlfriends' names, cartoons, poems -- and numbers of days left to discharge.
The free-form, doodling expressions by soldiers and Marines were made as they each took a 21-day voyage across the Pacific that would forever mark their lives.See the full content of this document
Extract
Graffiti Evoke Memories of Vietnam Era
It was the mid-1960s.
Their destination, Vietnam.From the nonsensical to the profound and clever -- and sometimes political -- the messages have been salvaged as part of the Vietnam Graffiti Project. A portion of the collection debuts as an exhibit this week running through the summer at the Los Angeles Maritime Museum in San Pedro.Black CafeBillie Armstrongmy dear wifeZeb ArmstrongClover...See the full content of this document
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