Vietnam Veterans Memorial

Columbus, Iwo Jima, The Vietnam Memorial, and the drawn out list continues of the many remarkable people and events that over the years artists have created memorials of/for. People create statues, plaques, mausoleums, etc., all for someone who has done something so phenomenal for this nation, as well of astonishing and even devastating events that have forever left an imprint on America and the rest of the world. Designing and having the task of dedicating a beautiful memorial to something…

The poem “Facing It”, by Vietnam soldier Yusef Komunyakaa, tells a story of himself visiting the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. The impact the memories and the memorial have on him are evident when he describes his emotional experience first seeing the 58,022 names. This is shown through the meaning behind his writing, figurative language, and the structure of the poem. The meaning in this poem is to show the impact the Vietnam War had on the soldiers and the family and friends of the soldiers.…

When designing the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Maya Lan decided to create a wall of names cut into the ground. It was important to commemorate those who those who last year lives in Vietnam and she felt the best way to remember everything about each individual person was engraving their name into a wall. This allows people to remember everything about the…

environment of such a significant object. The environment surrounding a memorial is largely comprised of the physical location and human community that the memorial will be around. This can raise issues for an organization who want to memorialize a certain person or event, who must consider the implications that installing a memorial has on the surrounding environment. Such an issue brought to question…

How do poets Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon present their ideas of war in their poems, Exposure and Does It Matter? Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon are two famous war time poets, who conveyed their first-hand experiences of war through the form of poems to enlighten people towards the reality of war, as shown in “Exposure” and “Does It Matter?”. Exposure is an emotionally powerful poem that expresses the reality of the brutal weather conditions that were endured by the soldiers in the…

Columbus, Iwo Jima, The Vietnam Memorial, and the drawn out list continues of the many remarkable people and events that over the years artist have created memorials of/for. People create statues, plaques, mausoleums, etc., all for someone who has done something so phenomenal for this nation, as well of astonishing and even devastating events that have forever left an imprint on America and the rest of the world. Designing and having the task of dedicating a beautiful memorial to something needs…

What is Arlington National Cemetery? Why does it matter to us in present-day American civilization? Many people ask these questions, and others that are similar, when the topic is brought up, because they lack an understanding of, or knowledge of, the answers. What those people don’t see is that Arlington is much more than a large patch of land filled with hunks of rocks and chunks of stone buried in the ground. Arlington is actually many other, more important things: a place of rest for some, a…

away by rats. Certain shortfalls arise when contrasting these forgotten structures and, say, the often-visited monuments of the National Mall. We must mind these qualities if we wish to prevent its fall to obscurity. Foremost, whatever cause our memorial will commemorate, it must resound in the hearts of the people. Otherwise, it gets lost to the annals of history, as it did for H. Elroy Johnson, the subject of “The Maine Lobsterman.” Presented once in the 1939 New York World’s Fair, it moved…

purpose of the museum” (Source E). The size of a memorial is only as important as the location; the construction of the National Holocaust Memorial Museum here in Washington, D.C. brought about the great dispute between Jewish and non-Jewish communities (Source E). The dispute was later settled with the idea that…

In Yusef Komunyakaa’s poem “Facing It,” he writes about his poignant experience visiting the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in a way that suggests he is perhaps regretful of his time as a soldier and remorseful as a survivor. Komunyakaa explains to the readers the inner workings of his brain and how permanent war is not only in his mind but in the reality of the death toll. In order to accomplish giving a detailed and understandable explanation to the audience, Komunyakaa uses techniques such as…