A second leg of the program sent each U.S. Army Vietnam Combat Art team to Hawaii where, under less hostile conditions, they fleshed out their sketches and impressions into finished works of art. The Army's Vietnam Combat Art Program was unique in that qualified artists were selected exclusively by competition from the U.S. Army's own ranks. Prior to this program military artists, for the most part, had been seasoned, professional and civilian. Selected soldier artists were granted freedom to express themselves as they saw fit and were actually encouraged to use a personal style. The resulting body of work from these forty-two artists is an uncommon and compelling look at the everyday life of army soldiers at war.
All wars are bad.
I suppose some are just and necessary because there is evil in the world. My job was to record through my art what was going on from a soldiers point of view. I did that as well as I could. I will say this, I am much more skeptical of the accuracy of the evening television news after my experience in Vietnam. One experience you can read about on my WEB site.