The National Veterans Art Museum is hosting an exhibit of 58,300 dog tags, one for each member of the U.S. armed services killed in the Vietnam War.

The sculpture, titled “Above and Beyond,” is the new centerpiece of the National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum at 1801 S. Indiana Ave. Each tag contains the name, branch and date of death of an ...

The National Veterans Art Museum on North ... of the Vietnam War." The piece was started in the late 1990s by four different veteran artists and it consists of over 58,000 dog tags ...

Rick Steinbock, Ned Broderick, Joe Fornelli, and Mike Helbing have created a haunting Vietnam War memorial with 58,000 dog tags. The piece was created for the National Veterans Art Museum. Price ...

Artists battle to save their beloved National Veterans Art Museum in Chicago, ... Vietnam vet and the museum's chairman. ... the second floor ceiling were more than 58,000 hanging dog tags, ...

CHICAGO -- The dog tags hang from the ceiling, shimmering like the prisms of a chandelier as the central piece of the National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum, ...

The 8-by-24-foot painting, called “Honoring and Remembering,” hangs in the National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum in Chicago. It also has been reproduced in a framed artwork issued by the U.S ...

CHICAGO (AP) -- Twenty-seven years after the Vietnam War ended, workers at the National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum in Chicago are making more than 58,000 dog tags to remember the ...

The work was painstaking, requiring keen eyesight and patience.Brendan Foster, executive director of Chicago’s National Veterans Art Museum, sat at a table with a black binder and laptop. The ...

In Chicago, there is a home for the art of war. The National Veterans' Art Museum , which was founded in 1981 by the Vietnam Veterans Art Group, offers a space for those who served to share their ...

And suspended from the second floor ceiling were more than 58,000 hanging dog tags, one for every U.S. casualty of Vietnam. "That's what brought the artists together, the guys who didn't make it ...