Twenty years ago, George Dickie watched as a nation finally thanked its female Vietnam War veterans.
Dickie, a Penn State landscape architecture professor at the time, stood in the crowd gathered on Nov. 11, 1993, for the dedication of the Vietnam Women’s Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
He was no mere spectator.
The memorial honoring the 11,500 women who served in Vietnam, and the roughly 265,000 in the military during the war, bore his touches.