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The Vietnam Veterans Memorial, commonly called the Vietnam Memorial, is a U.S. national memorial in Washington, D.C., honoring service members of the U.S. armed forces who served in the Vietnam War. The two-acre (8,100 m 2 ) site is dominated by two black granite walls engraved with the names of those service members who died or remain missing ...
In 1981, while still an undergraduate at Yale she achieved national recognition when she won a national design competition for the planned Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. [1] The memorial was designed in the minimalist architectural style, and it attracted controversy upon its release but went on to become influential. [2]
Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision is a 1994 American documentary film made by Freida Lee Mock.It explores the life of American artist Maya Lin, whose best-known work is the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. [2] The film won the 1994 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
Standing eight feet tall at its highest point and 360 feet long, the wall is a replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., that travels the country, honoring those who gave the ...
In fact, the bill, S-2533/A-1213, which makes a supplemental appropriation of $15 million to Department of Military and Veterans Affairs for New Jersey Vietnam Veterans' Memorial Foundation to ...
Oct. 18—TESUQUE — Several times, Avelino Calabaza has reached out his hand and touched the black granite monument in Washington, D.C., devoted to the memory of American soldiers whose died in ...
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial, designed by Maya Lin, is a stripped-down, minimalist memorial in-line with Modernist architecture that opened in 1982. This memorial seeks to focus the attention of the Vietnam War not on the complicated and unpopular political decisions taken during the conflict, but rather on the people who died in combat. As ...
Jan Craig Scruggs (born March 11, 1950) is a United States Army veteran who served in the Vietnam War, and later founded the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, which built the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., in the United States. Scruggs was the President of the foundation until 2015, when he retired.