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The document summarizes the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C., including its origins, design, and significance. It was conceived in 1979 by Jan Scruggs to honor soldiers who fought in the Vietnam War. A national design competition was won by 21-year old architect Maya Lin. Her design of two granite walls inscribed with the names of soldiers who died has become a place of remembrance and healing.

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Generation of '27 XL by Slidesgo

The document summarizes the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C., including its origins, design, and significance. It was conceived in 1979 by Jan Scruggs to honor soldiers who fought in the Vietnam War. A national design competition was won by 21-year old architect Maya Lin. Her design of two granite walls inscribed with the names of soldiers who died has become a place of remembrance and healing.

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The Vietnam

Veterans
Monument

By Kate Ducas
The creation of the Vietnam veterans
monument

The year was 1979…

Vietnam veteran Jan Scruggs decided that his


fellow soldiers need a moment of their sacrifice
in the Vietnam war, and thus the idea of the
Vietnam veterans monument was born.
About the designer

A 21-year-old Yale … unanimously won the


architecture student… competition
Maya Lin, is a architect that has designed many
A national competition was held to decide who
different sculptures, such as wave field, and
was going the deign that monument. The judges as
woman’s table. However she is most know from
decided Maya Lin as the winner.
the Vietnam veterans monument.
3 interesting facts

Movies are Names are still A Motorcycle was


inspiration added donated
Jan Scruggs was inspired by Names are still added to the
Some left a motorcycle by the
the movie deer hunter to make monument, will several
monument, but only once
the monument hundred more than originally
inscribed
What it means…

To the county To me

It honors those who fought My grandfather fought in the


in the Vietnam war, but did Vietnam war, he did make it
not make it back to their out alive and back to my
families. family, but he died of
Alzheimer’s before I was
born
A picture is worth a
thousand words
Thanks
By Kate Ducas

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