Vietnam Veteran Memorial

First artwork is the Vietnam War Memorial in 1982, designed by May Lin. What I see in this picture is that it looks like a park area is created having a lot of fresh green grass and long trees. It also have very elongated walls. The walls are made from mirror-like surfaces that reflects the images of the surrounding trees, monuments and people. As it is a Vietnam War memorial place, I observe that people staring at the walls depicts that the walls have something related about the Vietnam War. It can have written description about the specific people participating in the Vietnam War. It’s like a long granite wall inscribed with the names of all those men and women that sacrificed their lives during this war. I also see how these mirror like

No war in American history not fought on American soil can claim to have as big an impact on America as a whole than the Vietnam War. The social and political divisions caused by the war changed America as a nation and especially changed those who fought in it. Despite the sacrifices of these veterans, both those who returned and those who did not, Americans on both sides forgot or even vilified those who fought, either as losers or as tokens of an unjust war. To remedy this problem through reconciliation and honor those who died in Vietnam, a group of veterans campaigned to build a national memorial in Washington, D.C. From its original design to the present

The Vietnam Veteran Memorial, a commemoration of the deceased 58,000 men and women who lost their lives during the Vietnam War. The memorial also has the names of the veterans in chronological order from 1959 to 1975. It is made from granite with a polished surface to reflect the visitors' face that will link visitors to the dead one together.

The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall is made of Black Granite. The design of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial was a contest. Within the contest different U.S citizen submitted design ideas for the memorial and 8 different artists judges the entries in order to pick the best one. The wall was created by Maya Ying Lin. The wall is not extremely tall but rather is longer than most normal monuments. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall invites those visiting it to come closer and in contact with it. This is due to the fact that the print on the wall is small and visitors can also do a rubbing or tracing of the different names on the wall. The Vietnam Memorial Wall was an intentional monument since it was planned out and designed with a purpose of commemorating

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall has often been called a healing wall, and for some, it helped them find some closure an their time fighting in an unpopular war.

Veterans are very honorable people in the United States. They have served and risked their lives to help defend our country and this makes them heroes in many people’s eyes. Despite efforts to create a pleasant life after the military, some veterans still struggle. Many veterans come back from their time overseas to start a family, have kids and find a new job. However, some are not that fortunate and lack the support network to be successful and therefore live in poverty. Veterans, male and female, are unfortunately one of the vulnerable populations in today’s society and there is a sizeable population of homeless veterans who are the most vulnerable of the veterans. Many of these individuals have tried to seek help and medical

What is a memorial ? The definition of memorial is - “something, especially a structure, established to remind people of a person or event.” My views on memorials is simple and straightforward. They are amazing and needed.

The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is unlike any other. The names of the casualties are arranged by date of death not in alphabetical order or rank. The black granite turns each visitors own image into a virtual part of the surface. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is one of the most amazing and emotional memorials in Washington (Moeller 1 Pg. 85). “Take a knife and cut open the earth,” she said, “and with time the grass will heal it.” (Maya Ying Lin).

Coming home from war “should be” a peaceful transition for veterans. After having to withstand many harsh conditions, one would think a soldier’s life would begin to turn around for the better. Unfortunately, that is not always the case. As each generation of warfighters took their first steps back on American soil, they each had to cope with their own specific issues. World War I veterans came home to a collapsing economy and high unemployment rates. This consequently led to thousands of WWI veterans marching in Washington, D.C. in what is now known as the Bonus Army Marches. After WWII, many African-American veterans went from fighting on the front lines to going back to a country that still wouldn’t accept them as equals. Even the

What a veteran means to me is someone who served in the war.Veteran Day means freedom, sacrifice, and honor for those who served in the military. It also means to give thanks to people who served. We should be brave and strong-hearted when meet Verternern . . . . Without Veteran Day, many Americans would forget them and the sacrifices they made . A veteran, American Veterans are role models to me. They make me proud of my country. They fill me with reverence. They are a source of inspiration to me. An American veteran sets an honorable example for me to follow.

To me it seems as if Komunyakaa himself is the main character in the poem, it seems his face is sort of like a reflection in the dark granite that he is facing. Then he goes to state that he wouldn’t cry, but it seems he is very emotional about something. “I’m stone. I’m flesh” (Line 5) maybe saying he feels that he’s strong and manly, but he is feeling weak because he is crying, mentioning he’s flesh because after all he is human and humans have emotions that you sometimes can’t really control. It seems he is very aware of these feelings. It seems his only way out is to turn away from the wall, I think maybe he is trapped somewhere surrounded by these granite walls he seems to be facing and I do not think he can escape them.

I do not have a family member who served during the Vietnam War, but I did get to talk to a Veteran who served during the Vietnam War. He had some mixed feelings about the Vietnam Veteran Wall being built. He thought that some of his fellow Veterans groups criticized the lack of patriotic or heroic symbols often seen on war memorials and complained that it apparently esteemed only the fallen and not the living veterans. Some of them claimed that the memorial wall is an compensation for their service since the war; to the families and friends of those who died, it is an formal acknowledgment of their grief and an opportunity to express sorrow that was not previously approved; to others, it is either a deep antiwar statement or an opportunity

The remembrances of the Vietnam War are often thought upon with mixed emoptions. While there are those who praise the “bravest of men in our country” (Keith 38), some are stirred by the memorial, which happens to also be the most frequently toured site in the capital of the united states. It is covered with the names of over 50,000 men and women who served and died in the war of vietnam, it is regarded as a “shrine to the dead” (Taylor 24)  reminder of the loss of too many young Americans, and of what the war did to the United States and its messianic belief in its own overweening virtue.

The Vietnam War was a war that included the United States involvement. The United States fought in this war to stop communism. After almost 20 years, the war ended and the result was Vietnam was split into two parts, North and South Vietnam. North Vietnam was communist and South Vietnam was non-communist. Though this war ended, the American people who fought in this war were never forgotten. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial was built in Washington D.C in 1982, to always remember the people who fought in the Vietnam War for the United States. This wall has approximately 58,000 names on it of those who died fighting in the war. One person who fought in the War was James Avery. Although his name is not on the wall because he died in 2013

This heartwarming story is about a young boy and his father who visit the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C. they’re looking for his father’s name on the giant wall of names. While looking for his grandfather’s name, the young boy witnesses a soldiers who lost both of his legs, and is confined to a wheelchair, an older couple who are embracing each other crying, and a flower that id drooping. His father seems saddened, as well as the others who are visiting the memorial. The young boy is sad because he doesn’t have a grandfather, but his father tells him that he couldn’t be more proud to see his name on that wall because he died fighting for our