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maya lin vietnam War Memorial

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American History

 

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May 9, 2014

 

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At their intersection, the walls are 10.1 feet high and they taper down to a height of 8 inches at their extremities.3 The largest panels have 137 lines of names.4 The smallest panels have just one line. Each line consists of five names, which were sandblasted into the polished surface by hand, rather than cut into it with machine tools...
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Each line consists of five names, which were sandblasted into the polished surface by hand, rather than cut into it with machine tools.5 Currently, the monument wall lists the names of 58,175 members of the armed forces who were confirmed killed or listed as missing in action during the Vietnam War.6 Although the complete listing of the names of those killed in action or missing in action, the horizontality, reflectivity, and subdued, un-heroic and apolitical tone were more or less mandated by the memorial's sponsors, Lin's one genuine innovation was to list the dead and missing chronologically, rather than alphabetically, that latter being the accepted norm in military monuments...
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The Conflict in Vietnam Vietnam War Memorial Although the U.S.A went into Vietnam with the best of intentions, the conflict went horribly wrong Iwo Jima Memorial Memorial Day maya lin vietnam War Memorial Vietnam Memorial vietnam memorial The Vietnam Memorial vietnam conflict The Conflict In Vietnam The Vietnam Conflict And Its Effects Vietnam War - The Conflict In Vietnam Vietnam War - The Vietnam Conflict And Its Effects Vietnam War - Vietnam Soldiers - "they Carried Ghosts"
 

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