Felt sweetheart disc

Description:	While American students demonstrated nationwide against the Vietnam War (1964-75), soldiers serving there often longed for home and their loved ones. Vietnamese vendors catered to American soldiers needs for sentimental mementoes to send home as reminders that they missed wives, mothers and sweethearts. Servicemen could purchase handmade felt or velvet-covered plywood discs like this one made in 1966 with generic wartime imagery of a soldier, then have the discs painted to personalize them with their own name, rank, scenery and message.
Source:	http://www.digitalindy.org/cdm/ref/collection/tcm/id/1092
Collection:	The Children's Museum of Indianapolis
Rights:	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/;
Copyright:	Creative Commons (CC By-SA 3.0);
Subjects:	Vietnam Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975

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