Vietnam War Memorial - Powerful Granite
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At the age of twenty one, a female undergraduate at Yale University named
Maya Lin submitted her design for the Vietnam Memorial. Her idea for the
memorial was extremely unique and controversial. After long discussions by
a panel, it was chosen for construction. The design that she submitted was
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.... the sole
purpose of honoring only those who were lost in the conflict. The term KIA
was the abbreviation used for those people who were killed in action, and
these people represent 47,000 of the 58,000 names on the wall. The other
11,000 were soldiers who died from crashes, snake bites, illnesses, and
other non-combat related deaths (Olson 227). There is no distinction made
between the two groups on the monument. The structure is a v-shaped
polished granite slab that unlike other monuments has ....
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