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The Things They Leave Behind

Rachel Manteuffel

The Washington Post

  • 2013 |
  • Article |
  • LIVINGSTON AWARD |
  • NATIONAL REPORTING |
  • WINNER |

Manteuffel offered a poignant look at the items left by visitors at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C. Each offering, a graduation tassel, bullet casings, a letter from a 37-year-old woman to her lover who is still 21, is collected, catalogued and stored as a way of recording the nation’s grief over an unpopular war. 

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