Arlington Heights in Portland in Multnomah County, Oregon — The American West (Northwest)

1970 – 1971

— Oregon Vietnam Veterans Living Memorial —

Photographed by Ian Lefkowitz, June 26, 2026

1. 1970 – 1971 Marker

Inscription.
Though by now the U.S. Air Force and the air wings of the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps assumed the main burden of the war, some remaining ground forces invaded Cambodia. Also, with U.S. air support, the South Vietnamese invaded Laos. However, events in Vietnam and in the U.S. produced another surge of anti-war feelings. By now polls, though not conclusive, suggested that the majority of Americans opposed the war’s continuation.

One day in Tigard the high school students watched a film called “The Soiled Frontier.” It was about pollution in Oregon. In the same year, a documentary film told about a boy in Detroit who lost his tree fort when the forest in which he played was logged. Fears for the environment were mounting in Oregon. Oregon passed “The Bottle Bill,” the first in the nation, which discouraged littering the landscape with containers. And though that boy in Detroit lost his tree fort, 70 new campsites were added to the Detroit State Park.

Women’s rights were another issue of the time. A girl in Salem successfully sued the school district for the right to wear slacks to class. In McMinnville, the

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first woman student representative took her place on the Board of Trustees at Linfield College. And in Portland, the state’s first chapter of the National Association for Women was organized.

Then there were the anti-war protests, many of them centered at Oregon colleges and universities. Demonstrations at the national convention of the American Legion in Portland were avoided when thirty thousand people attended Vortex, a massive music festival on the banks of the Clackamas River, thus separating those who supported the war from those who did not. But one issue was settled. The legislature, recalling the numbers of Oregonians in their late teens and early twenties serving in Vietnam, gave the vote to 18-year-olds.

Then there were events which, though less sensational, were important in their own time and place. Grants Pass senior citizens gave a ball. Solo held its sheepdog trials and, as always, chose queens for the Linn County Lamb and Wool Fair. In Oregon City they counted 25,000 coho salmon passing through the fishway. And there were two examples of Oregonians being good neighbors. The students at Gladstone

Photographed by Ian Lefkowitz, June 26, 2026

2. 1970 – 1971 Marker

This memorial is the fourth in a series found in the spiraling Garden of Solace in Hoyt Arboretum.

High School contributed a thousand dollars to help build a school in a Third World country, while the inmates at the Oregon State Penitentiary collected 98 dollars to give to the Turner family whose house burned to the ground—reassuring gestures in the midst of the controversies of those years.

W. Michael Adair • Philip E. Smith Jr. • Michael G. Foutz • Daniel I. Mambretti • Donald L. Swanson • Larry H. Trussell • David L. Judy • Dwight Hayes • Kirk I. Temple • James T. Bateman • David L. Harding • Henry T. Rava • Darrell G. Wood Jr. • Dennis P. Schneider • Archie C. Wabschall III • George G. Karr • Brian L. Wilson • James R. Muth • George A. Bamford • Keith H. Reitz • Steven L. Peters • Calvin W. Kolb • Lane W. Wiseman • Robert N. Thompson • Gordon L. Zimmerle • Lawrence E. Sutton • Steven J. Williams • Brian L. Bushnell • Dean B. Dafler • Rodney K. Arnold • David J. Ellefson • Keith S. Arneson • William W. Davis • Perry A. Le Clerc • Wayne K. Smith • Johnny L. Fulton • Thomas Sherry • David E. Meade • Gary W. Britton • Carlton C. Gray • William N. Jensen Jr. • Vernon E. Schrock • Edward A. Mathes • Timothy J. Brown • Larry

1970 – 1971 Marker: Panel 2 image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Ian Lefkowitz, June 26, 2026

3. 1970 – 1971 Marker: Panel 2

The first panel with listed names.

M. Gassner • Douglas R. Ulm • Dale A. Anderson • Terry S. Woodroffe • Terry L. Moreland • John E. S. Mitchell Jr. • John W. Carper Jr. • Kelly R. Davis • Kenneth N. Reber • Russell D. Milberger • Larry D. Engebretson • John E. Moody Jr. • Larry A. Gatliff • Robert W. Taylor • Jack H. Dillon • James D. Fox • Edward J. Whitton • Robert C. Mollenhour • William L. Whitmore • Gary J. Winter • Dean F. Rogers • Edward C. Johnston • Robert N. Bollman • Gary R. Friend • Richard M. Schwab • David W. Baker • Jackie R. Brooks • Robert J. Fishleigh • William J. Langman • Larry D. Shelton • Terence A. Handley • Timothy R. Ownbey • David F. Nidever • Charles V. Wood • Monroe J. Conley • Robert E. Linville • Ronald J. Hill • Randall P. Manela • Norman F. Evans • Lee Roy E. Linton • Bobby D. Seay • Robert A. Williams Jr. • Harold N. Flieger • John W. Murphy • Meril O. McCoy Jr. • Gary W. Smith • Clifford T. Johnson • Glen C. Klein • Gordon L. Wirth Jr. • Melvin D. Barnett • Robert E. Sharpe • Gerald L. Carter • John C. Strauser • Russell G. Blocher • John E. Robertson • Olan D. Coleman • Larry F. Ott • Joseph G. Brown • Strather F. Wood • Gerald E.

1970 – 1971 Marker: Panel 3 image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Ian Lefkowitz, June 26, 2026

4. 1970 – 1971 Marker: Panel 3

Woods • Larry G. Dahl • Charles R. Hausherr • John T. Strawn • Gary G. Prentice • James C. Tubb Jr. • Kenneth H. Jones • Gordon K. Spearman Jr. • Robert J. Schumacher • Paul A. Sheer • Jerry S. Stearns • John L. Wilson Jr. • Kevin D. Grogan • Fidencio Flores Jr. • Dale E. Sorensen • William E. Locke • Ronald L. Doolittle • Charles L. Martin • Edward W. Metcalf • Scott W. Wayt • Thomas H. Farmer • Steven J. Ellis • Ronald D. Calloway • Wayne S. Murphy • Gerry A. Harr • Ronald E. Beutler • David B. Beglau • Clifford F. Dowling • Edwin N. Troxel • John L. Brannon • Kenneth R. Gullett • Rodney C. Harsch • Donald D. Brubaker • Barry A. Bowman • James D. Costley

Erected 1987.

Topics. This memorial is listed in this topic list: War, Vietnam.

Location. 45° 30.744′ N, 122° 43.144′ W. Memorial is in Portland, Oregon, in Multnomah County. It is in Arlington Heights. It can be reached from the intersection of Southwest Canyon Road and Vietnam Veterans of Oregon Memorial Pathway, on the right when traveling south. Touch for map. Memorial is at or near this postal address: 4000 SW Canyon

1970 – 1971 Marker: Panel 4 image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Ian Lefkowitz, June 26, 2026

5. 1970 – 1971 Marker: Panel 4

Rd, Portland OR 97221, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this memorial is in Oregon’s Columbia River Gorge

and in the Willamette Valley.

It is also on the American Pacific Coast,

in the Pacific Northwest,

and in the Lewis & Clark Corridor.

Globally, it is in North America,

on the Ring of Fire,

in the Pacific Rim,

in the Western Hemisphere,

in the Western World,

and in the Anglosphere.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker: 1968 – 1969 (within shouting distance of this marker); 1972 – 1976 (within shouting distance of this marker); Garden of Solace (within shouting distance of this marker); MIA (within shouting distance of this marker); 1966 – 1967 (within shouting distance of this marker); 1959 – 1965 (about 300 feet away, measured in a direct line); Oregon Vietnam Veterans Living Memorial (about 400 feet away); Les AuCoin (approx. 0.2 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Portland.

Credits. This page was last revised on September 7, 2026. It was originally submitted on August 31, 2026, by Ian Lefkowitz of New York, New York. This page has been viewed 9 times since then. Photos: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. submitted on August 31, 2026, by Ian Lefkowitz of New York, New York. • James Hulse was the editor who published this page.