Vietnam veterans memorial M.Lin

8/11/2019 Vietnam veterans memorial M.Lin

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V I E T N A M V E T E R A N M E M O R I A L

MAYA LIN, DC

the names would become the memorial, M. Lin


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The memorial consists of threeseparate parts:

the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall

By Maya Lin

the Three Soldiers statueBy Frederick Hart

the Vietnam Women's MemorialBy Glenna Goodacre


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Timeline:

October 1980 - Vietnam Veterans Memorial Foundation set up adesign competition

* Competition guidelines:o U.S citizen 18 years of age

or oldero reflective and

contemplativeo be harmonious with its siteo

it include the names of all57,661 Americans whodied in the war.

o make no politicalstatement regarding warand its conduct,

March 11, 1982 - The design of Maya Lin is formally approved.

March 26, 1982 - Ground is formally broken.

November 13, 1982Memorial dedication after a march toits site by thousands of Vietnam War veterans.

November 1984The Three Soldiers statue is dedicated.

November 11, 1993Vietnam Women's Memorial isdedicated.


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Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall

Maya Lin

o born in Athens, Ohio in 1959

o Asian-American

o Yale architectural student in her senior year

o Class Project (memorial for World War III )

o Chosen out of 1421 submissions


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VisionI had a simple impulse to cut into the earth.

I imagined taking a knife and cutting into the earth, opening it up, an initialviolence and pain that in time would heal. ... The need for the names to beon the memorial would become the memorial... It would be an interface,between our world and the quieter, darker, more peaceful world beyond. Ichose black granite in order to make the surface reflective and peaceful. Inever looked at the memorial as a wall, an object, but as an edge to theearth, an opened side.... By linking these two strong symbols[LincolnMemorial Washington Monument], I wanted to create a unity between thenations past and present.


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Facts:

7520.9m long

3.0785m high at highest point

Granite from southern India


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140 panels of names

58.191 names on the wall

every name is 1.3 cm tall

Be listed in chronological

order (date of death)

The Names

Symbols:o diamond symbol (death

was confirmed)o cross symbol (remains

missing)o A circle (inscribed

around the cross if aserviceman ever returnalive. )


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Controversy

Its like a giant tombstone...

black and below level in a city ofwhite marble

black ditch

if I had a brother who died in the war, Iwould never want to visit this memorial


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The Three Soldiers statueBy Frederick Hart

The Three Soldiers statue wasdesigned to supplement theVietnam Veterans Memorial, byadding a more traditionalcomponent such as a statue thatdepicted warriors from that

respective war.


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The Vietnam Women's Memorial(November 11, 1993)By Glenna Goodacre

Hope Faith Charity


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The visitors

Notes, letters, poems

Bracelets, flowers, flags Etc

Documents

Vietnam veterans memorial M.Lin