James McNeely Born St. Paul, Minnesota, 1949 Served in Vietnam, Army, 196th LiB, American Division, Chu Lai, squad leader, 1969-70
				Cache, 1982, bronze, 17 in. high
		So much of the art of Vietnam veterans, created just after they came home, is full of pain and ghosts. I made my first sculpture twelve years after leaving Vietnam. The gesture of the soldier, who has just found an enemy cache, is one of victory or celebration; for me, it is the gesture of being one step closer to home.