Sculptor’s work moving

I enjoyed the article “Scouts’ Honor” in a recent edition of the Review concerning the recently erected bronze statue celebrating Boy Scouts near the north end of the Monroe Street Bridge, especially since most everyone in my family has earned his Eagle Scout or higher.

In your telling of Debbie Copenhaver’s sculptures over the years, I noticed a couple you hadn’t mentioned, perhaps due to their distance from Spokane: One, on the end of a pier in Bellingham, showing a woman with a lantern awaiting her seaman’s return; and the second, which my wife and I consider her finest, is Missoula’s Vietnam Memorial: a larger-than-life-size, very masculine angel raising a fallen American soldier to heaven. The expressions on their faces are so moving, they leave an indelible impression with the viewer.

Each time we pass through Missoula on our way south on U.S. 93 through the Bitterroot Valley, we never fail to stop by Franklin Park (also called Rose Park) on U.S. 12 at the south end of Missoula because the statue is so beautiful and moving – a fitting tribute, indeed, to our soldiers of the Vietnam War.

Bliss O. Bignall Jr.

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