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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…

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1965

Buddy (Claude Henry Keystone) Young (1926-).

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1926

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Braun, Carol Moseley (1947- )

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1951

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1990

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Dawson, William Levi (1898-1990)

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1917

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1896

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President Eisenhower

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1954

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1953

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