Near the end of a weeklong national salute to Americans who
served in the Vietnam War, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial
was dedicated in Washington, D.C. after a march to its site
by thousands of veterans of the conflict

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The long-awaited memorial was a simple V-shaped black-
granite wall inscribed with the names of the 57,939
Americans who died in the conflict, arranged in order
of death, not rank, as was common in other memorials.

The designer of the memorial was Maya Lin, a Yale
University architecture student who entered a
nationwide competition to  create a design for
the monument. Lin, born in Ohio in 1959, the
daughter of Chinese immigrants.        


        
        
        
       
       

Bob Doubek, project director, and Maya Lin, designer of the 
Memorial.