Object Record
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Metadata
Object Name |
Boot |
Catalog Number |
2005.52.104 |
Maker |
RoSearch, Inc./R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company/Anhuser Bush Inc. |
Date |
ca. 1990 |
Material(s) |
Rubber/Canvas/Leather/Steel/Paper/Tobacco/Aluminum |
Dimensions |
H-9 W-4.5 D-12 inches |
Description |
This is a memorial piece consisting of jungle boots, a pack of cigarettes and a beer can. The jungle boots are green canvas tops and black leather bottoms. The boots have black rubber soles. The boots are laced with black braided shoelaces through 18 steel gromits. There are two steel vents on the inside. There is a maker's mark on the bottom and a stenciled inscription on the green canvas tongue. There is a cigarette pack in the right boot and a beer can in the left. The cigarette pack is a red cardboard package with a white stripe in the center. It is a flip-top box with inscriptions printed in red, white, and gold lettering. The inside contains gold foil and 15 filtered cigarettes (white paper rolled around tobacco and filter). The filter section is brown. The Budweiser beer can is aluminum with a white background and red panels. The inscriptions are written in blue and white with the Anheuser-Busch seal in the top section. There is a government warning and bar code on the side in blue. The can is a pop-top. |
Notes |
The Kentucky Vietnam Veterans Memorial Collection is comprised of materials left at the Kentucky Vietnam Veteran's Memorial by comrades and loved ones of those soldiers that died during the Vietnam War. The memorial was built in 1988 and the curator at the Kentucky Military History Museum began collecting materials at that time. The design concept is in the form of a large sundial. There are 1,100 names of Kentuckians on the memorial, including 23 missing in action. Each name is engraved into the plaza, and placed so that the tip of the shadow touches his name on the anniversary of his death, thus giving each fallen veteran a personal Memorial Day. The location of each name is fixed mathematically by the date of casualty, the geographic location of the memorial, the height of the gnomon and the physics of solar movement. The stones were then designed and cut to avoid dividing any individual name. The resulting radial-concentric joint pattern suggests a "web", symbolic of the entangling nature of this war. |
Collection |
Kentucky Vietnam Veterans Memorial Collection |
Event |
Vietnam War |
People |
R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company Anheuser-Busch, Inc. RoSearch, Inc. |
Subjects |
Memorials War Veterans Veterans' organizations Beer Cigarettes Boots |
Search Terms |
Kentucky Vietnam Veterans Memorial Vietnam War Vietnam Vietnam War, 1961-1975 Military souvenirs |
Physical Holder |
Kentucky Historical Society - KHS |