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Vietnam Veterans Memorial: Vietnam War
built 303 days ago
On the grounds of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is the first memorial placed in the nation's capital honoring women's military service. This emotional sculpture depicts three women, one caring for a soldier. The monument was designed by Glenna Goodacre, and was unveiled on Veterans Day, November 11, 1993. This monument is the culmination of a ten year grass roots effort honoring the 265.500 American women who served around the world during the Vietnam war.
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One early controversy related to the political leaders who did not appear at the 1982 dedication of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Neither Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter or Ronald Reagan attended the ceremony. Senators Warner and Mathias did appear....
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The VVMF held an open competition for a memorial design that would: "1. be reflective and contemplative in character, 2. harmonize with its surroundings, 3. contain the names of those who had died in the conflict or who were still missing, and 4. make no political statement about the war" (Fish 1987, p. 3). A panel of distinguished architects and artists reviewed over 14,000 submissions, and on May 1, 1981, announced its unanimous choice: the design by Maya Ying Lin, a twenty-one-year-old Chinese-American undergraduate at Yale University.
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