A tenacious bunch of veterans are two weeks away from completing a multi-year project to honor soldiers who came before them and soldiers serving today. The product of their quest - a bronze sculpture called "I Am an American" - will go on display a final time Saturday at the University of Idaho football game in the Kibbie Dome. "If I had the money and time, I'd kinda like to take it all the way to Coeur d'Alene or Seattle," said the project's chairman Doug Olsen, a Vietnam veteran. "My pockets are pretty thin." The veterans who are raising $90,000 for the sculpture of a soldier with a wounded child on his lap and the placement of the bronze at the Veterans Home in Lewiston are mostly Korean War and World War II veterans. The sculpture will be the first memorial of its kind in the north central Idaho and eastern Washington region/Dean Ferguson, Lewiston Tribune.

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