Liz-Ann Vincent-Merry

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A Drop

10 players, 1 ball, 6 deceased

In 1955, six young basketball players from a school in rural Texas, on the brink of their lives, were drafted up by the American military to be trained to fight in Vietnam, a conflict the majority of Americans feigned amnesia, wishing neither to talk nor think about their nation's most debilitating war, and the only one they ever lost. 

A Drop is a memorial to these ordinary young men, whose deaths are listed as mostly cancer, and an attempt to rescue and transform their existence from the oblivion of time, to give them a voice against political and social silence.

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