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Tuesday

A new Kobe Bryant statue has multiple errors. It's not the first memorial with typos

Students walk by the statue of Hecuba, the legendary Queen of Troy, with a quote by William Shakespeare — spelled "Shakespear" — on the campus of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles in 2017. Richard Vogel/AP hide caption

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Art & Design

A new Kobe Bryant statue has multiple errors. It's not the first memorial with typos

Officials say they will correct the misspellings on a recent 19-foot bronze statue of the late Kobe Bryant at Crypto.com Arena. Several other prominent monuments have had similar issues.

Saturday

Maya Lin doesn't like the spotlight — but the Smithsonian is shining a light on her

Maya Lin, in 1988, examining inverted water table being fabricated for the Civil Rights Memorial she designed to be installed in Montgomery, Alabama. Adam Stoltman hide caption

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Culture

Maya Lin doesn't like the spotlight — but the Smithsonian is shining a light on her

Heavily criticized 40 years ago for her Vietnam Veterans' Memorial design, the artist-architect-activist prefers to talk about her artistic process rather than her life

Maya Lin doesn't like the spotlight — but the Smithsonian is shining a light on her

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Thursday

All Wars Are Fought Twice

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Throughline

All Wars Are Fought Twice

"All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory," writes Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen. This week on Throughline, we want to pause the news cycle to think about not just how war is experienced or consumed, but how it's remembered. A refugee from the Vietnam War, Nguyen calls himself a scholar of memory — someone who studies how we remember events of the past, both as people and as nations. As the world watches the war in Ukraine — and with the U.S. departure from Afghanistan still fresh — we speak with Nguyen about national memory, selective forgetting, and the refugee stories that might ultimately help us move forward.

All Wars Are Fought Twice

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Monday

Memorial Day Honor Flights Canceled Because Of Coronavirus Crisis

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Coronavirus Updates

Memorial Day Honor Flights Canceled Because Of Coronavirus Crisis

Thousands of people who were planning to visit war memorials in Washington, D.C., on Memorial Day had to cancel this year. That includes veterans traveling with the nonprofit network Honor Flight.

Memorial Day Honor Flights Canceled Because Of Coronavirus Crisis

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Saturday

Opinion: A Lesson From Memorial Day, 1993

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Opinion

Simon Says

Opinion: A Lesson From Memorial Day, 1993

NPR's Scott Simon ponders the loss of civility and respect in public discourse.

Opinion: A Lesson From Memorial Day, 1993

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Saturday

Watcher At The Wall: One Veteran Finds A Lifeline In All That's Left Behind

Items left for loved ones at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in 2014. Hundreds of thousands of such items have been left behind at the wall in commemoration, according to the National Park Service. Molly Riley/AP hide caption

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StoryCorps

Watcher At The Wall: One Veteran Finds A Lifeline In All That's Left Behind

Since the Vietnam Veterans Memorial opened, visitors have left hundreds of thousands of items there. Meet the veteran who collects and catalogs them — and finds in them a chance to salvage the past.

Watcher At The Wall: One Veteran Finds A Lifeline In All That's Left Behind

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Name Of A Vietnam Veteran Killed By Hepatitis C Added To 'The Wall'

Army Specialist Jim McGough with members of his unit in 1971. Then 19, he was photographed by a columnist from The Des Moines Register. Gordon Gammack/The Des Moines Register hide caption

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Shots - Health News

Name Of A Vietnam Veteran Killed By Hepatitis C Added To 'The Wall'

KFF Health News

Members of the military are more than twice as likely to have hepatitis C as the general public. For many, including Jim McGough, the virus takes its final toll decades after they are first infected.

Thursday

Vietnam Veterans' Memorial Founder: Monument Almost Never Got Built

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War, Remembrance and Rebuilding in Vietnam

Vietnam Veterans' Memorial Founder: Monument Almost Never Got Built

Jan Scruggs commemorates the 40th anniversary of the end to the Vietnam War with a walk along the memorial he pioneered building.

Vietnam Veterans' Memorial Founder: Monument Almost Never Got Built

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Tuesday

Military Expert Wheeler Found Dead In Landfill

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The Two-Way

Military Expert Wheeler Found Dead In Landfill

John Wheeler was a leading figure in the effort to build the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington. How his body ended up at a Delaware landfill is a mystery.

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