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The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is a 2-acre U.S. national memorial in Washington D.C. It honors service members of the U.S. armed forces who fought in the Vietnam War, service members who died in service in Vietnam/South East Asia, and those service members who were unaccounted for during the war,More info:wiki

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#10 Vietnam Veterans Memorial,More info:worldstrides

In 1979, a Vietnam veteran named Jan Scruggs made up his mind to insure that there would be a special memorial for those who fought in the Vietnam conflict. It would list the names of every man and woman who went to Vietnam and never returned. He decided to hold a contest for everyone over the age of 18 to submit a design for the new memorial. Over 1,400 entries from around the country were submitted.

The winning design was submitted by a 21-year old college student from Yale named Maya Ying Lin. As she considered her design, she visited Washington, D.C. on a gray November day. She imagined a black wall, cut in the earth, a barrier between the sunny world of the living and the great dark world of the dead. The black wall would have all the names of the deceased and missing Americans inscribed on it, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall. It was originally a homework project that turned out to be the most visited memorial in D.C. By the way, she got a “B” on her homework assignment.

#9 Creating the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, the Inside Story,More info:competitions

On any given day visitors to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington may number in the hundreds, sometimes the thousands. Immediately upon its dedication in November 1982 it became and has remained one of the most visited sites in our nation’s capitol. Extending tranquilly across a tree bordered meadow near the Lincoln Memorial, its power as a work of tribute stands among the great memorials of any time or place. It is an American icon. Visitors to the memorial may know that a college student designed it in a nation-wide design competition and that the selected design was the subject of great controversy. Little else about its creation is known or need be known by a typical visitor. The memorial speaks for itself, honoring the nearly 58,000 Vietnam veterans who died in the war and by implication the millions of others who served. As a work of public art it honors memory and service admirably. For those who wish to probe further, to understand how the memorial came to be, as well as its historical and artistic significance, there is more than ample literature. The totality of books, articles and papers numbers in the many hundreds. Most of these deal with a particular aspect of the memorial, and have been written by journalists, scholars and critics. In addition, there are several recollections written by participants in the memorial’s creation.* A comprehensive account was first published in 1985, “To Heal a Nation,” written by Jan C Scruggs, a wounded Vietnam combat veteran and the founder of the memorial project, along with author Joel L Swerdlow. It is an easily read and moving account, describing the effort from its inception in March 1979.