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Returning Vietnam Veteran and Lincoln
- Creator:
- Lloyd Ostendorf
- Location:
- Ohio, Dayton
- Origin Date:
- 1972
- Materials:
- pen and ink, board
- Measurements:
- overall: 14 in x 11 1/2 in
- Item ID:
- 71.2009.081.0662
- Holding Institution:
- Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, courtesy of the Indiana State Museum
- Available for Viewing:
- No
- Category:
- Fine Art
Description
This drawing is an editorial cartoon that features a wounded soldier returning from Vietnam. He walks with a crutch under one arm, and carries a rucksack in the other hand as he travels across a land mass on a map labeled Vietnam. President Abraham Lincoln is depicted at the viewer's left looking down at the soldier. A quotation from President Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address printed in the upper right corner of the image reads" Let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle. . ." The artist handwritten signature and the year are in the bottom right corner of the drawing.