Always To Remember: The Vision Of Maya Ying Lin

The Vietnam War claimed 60,000 American lives in the twenty year long war. Jan Scruggs, a Vietnam veteran, felt that it was necessary to build a memorial for all of the lives that could not come back home. In the reading “Always to Remember: The Vision of Maya Ying Lin” Brent Ashabranner, the author, chose to make the title two parts. Brent Ashabranner made the title “Always to Remember: The Vision of Maya Ying Lin” two parts because he wanted to show that all soldiers who lost their lives in the Vietnam war should have a memorial that was created by Maya Ying Lin. Brent Ashabranner as a World War II veteran knows that war is not about glory and reward, but about pain and sorrow. Brent Ashabranner wrote the first part of the title as “Always to Remember” to remember all of the soldiers whose name is on the wall. This theory can be proved because in the text it says that one of the rules was that it must include every name of someone, man or woman, killed or went missing in the war. This is an important piece of evidence because Brent Ashabranner wrote the “Always to Remember” part of the title because he wanted to remember all of the soldiers who was killed or went missing, not just one gender, race, religion. Brent Ashabranner also felt …show more content…
With the second part of the passage being “The Vision of Maya Ying Lin” it is clear that this is what Brent Ashabranner was trying to get the reader to understand with the word choice of the title. The text proves this idea because it includes quotes of Maya Ying Lin talking about how she did not want to destroy the landscape, and how the memorial was supposed to represent the Earth opening up. This piece of evidence can be crucial because the wording of “The Vision of Maya Ying Lin” is what Brent Ashabranner wrote because it is what Maya Ying Lin was thinking when she was creating the memorial in her