After being subjected to a decade of brutality, millions of Vietnam War veterans returned to the United States only to endure further suffering. As a result, a wounded war veteran named Jan C. Scruggs embarked on a mission to erect a memorial in honor of the Vietnam veterans. In order to fund the project, Scruggs enlisted the aid of politicians, celebrities, veteran support groups and labor unions. A Yale University student named Maya Lin submitted her design for the memorial into the Vietnam Veterans War Memorial Fund contest. Not long after her design won the contest, she wrote, “From the very beginning I often wondered, if it had not been an anonymous entry 1026 but rather an entry by Maya Lin, would I have been selected?”…