“The only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasn't about money. It was about teaching, or learning.”
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I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans. The politics were irrelevant to what this memorial was.
To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do is incredible freedom.
The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.
I really enjoyed hanging out with some of the teachers. This one chemistry teacher, she liked hanging out. I liked making explosives. We would stay after school and blow things up.