The New War Collection

Well it has been an uphill battle - that's for sure! This week has been full of surprise roadblocks from all sorts of directions. I have been officially censored from Grange Park by the neighbourhood association. I guess I am getting a taste of the public forum and the difficulties involved in creating public memorials that are not 'feel good', static, monuments. I guess the truth is 'not in my backyard'. Disappointing to say the least.

Then I was all set to drive to Vermont (which I have been told was spectacular) but the rally was postponed. So hopefully we will make it down sooner rather than later. I have decided to use face to face audio interviews as well - so if anyone wants to participate let me know and we can set up a skype time or even phone time. Or if anyone is going to be in Washington, maybe Boston, or VT in the next month let me know and we can get together and chat. I want to meet as many of us as possible.
Well hoping for a better week next week - which I am sure will be:)

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Take Care
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Well I think that I have found a custom builder for the chairs and I am going forward with the installation. I have yet to get a response on the phone line which is somewhat disappointing - however I am on the web today and I will approaching things a little differently. So figures crossed that women will bravely step forward and participate.

Well today is the day to do the final updates and launch the website to the world. I have been collecting various news feeds, videos, etc. All of them are great sources for me to post my site on and hopefully start the discussion. I hope to get the site rolling earlier but after much feedback and some fine tuning I am ready and feel comfortable. I also wanted to wait until after Christmas. So tonight I sit in a cafe in Buffalo, NY sending my project and thoughts out to the world. I hope the discussion is lively.

I want to thank those of you who are talking part of the soft launch of this project. I appreciate all of the feedback and have made changes to some of the issues brought forward by you. Other feedback has pushed or pulled me to consider my choices and to substantiate my decisions. All of this is an excellent experience. As an aside I am looking at different materials that I could use for the construction of the chairs. If you have previewed the Diagrams section and understand the tone of the installation I looking for suggestions that allow for student budgets and tone. I have been directed toward marine plywood that offers some great values such as better cost than acrylic, strong, water resistant, half the weight of other wood or particle products, and it is finished on both sides for time constraints. Anyways this has been a great puzzle and adventure trying to find the 'right fit'. So if anyone would have some food for thought about this let me know. 

Welcome to The New War Collection. I have began this project with the hopes that other women who have experienced military sexual trauma will come here and start to create a network to support and share with each other. I will be posting updates as to the project updates, so come by often or run a RSS feed. And if anyone wants to email me or post on the forum some of their thoughts that would be excellent! Thanks.