Maya Ying Lin was a twenty-one-year-old attending college at Yale studying architecture. This young woman entered her idea for the memorial as a school project. That very same project was the winner of the Vietnam War memorial contest. Brent Ashabranner wrote “Always to Remember: The Vision of Maya Ying Lin”, which is about the Vietnam War memorial contest. The author, Ashabranner chose “Always to Remember” for the first part of the title so that we would always remember the war and the soldiers who fought and died. “The Vision of Maya Ying Lin” was chosen for the second part of the title because her idea for the memorial was a winning idea. The Vietnam War caused many riots throughout the United States. “... a nation still bitterly
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When her teacher heard about the contest he gave it as a project. Lin went to where the memorial would be built, right between the Lincoln and Washington memorial. She decided to enter the contest with her project also. The requirements for the memorial, “The memorial could not make a political statement about the war; it must contain the names of all the persons killed or missing in action in the war; it must be in harmony with the Mall.” The contest had 1,421 entries, “When the name of the winner was revealed, the art and architecture worlds were stunned. It was not the name of a nationally famous architect or sculptor, as most people had been sure it would be.” Lin’s design was a wall that angles at a 125 degrees angle, an all granite wall, all the names on the wall are in order of their death. Each name either has a dot meaning they died in action or a plus sign meaning they went missing. This vision of the memorial was the winning design.
Maya Ying Lin won the memorial contest with her brilliant idea and also won a place in history. “Always to Remember: The Vision of Maya Ying Lin” was the perfect title for this passage because the ‘Always to Remember:’ part of the title is talking about how we need to always remember the soldiers who fought in the Vietnam War. ‘The Vision of Maya Ying Lin’ part was saying that her vision of the memorial was the winning
When her teacher heard about the contest he gave it as a project. Lin went to where the memorial would be built, right between the Lincoln and Washington memorial. She decided to enter the contest with her project also. The requirements for the memorial, “The memorial could not make a political statement about the war; it must contain the names of all the persons killed or missing in action in the war; it must be in harmony with the Mall.” The contest had 1,421 entries, “When the name of the winner was revealed, the art and architecture worlds were stunned. It was not the name of a nationally famous architect or sculptor, as most people had been sure it would be.” Lin’s design was a wall that angles at a 125 degrees angle, an all granite wall, all the names on the wall are in order of their death. Each name either has a dot meaning they died in action or a plus sign meaning they went missing. This vision of the memorial was the winning design.
Maya Ying Lin won the memorial contest with her brilliant idea and also won a place in history. “Always to Remember: The Vision of Maya Ying Lin” was the perfect title for this passage because the ‘Always to Remember:’ part of the title is talking about how we need to always remember the soldiers who fought in the Vietnam War. ‘The Vision of Maya Ying Lin’ part was saying that her vision of the memorial was the winning