Vietnam Memorial
The vietnam vetarans memorial is made up of two polished black granite walls set as right angle to each other .Each wall runs 245 feet .About half the length of a soccer field.Sculpters design and make statues,memorials,and other art works,using many different materials.When maya designed the vietnam veterans memorial,she knew little about the history of the war.maya did not believe her vietnam veterans memorial design would win.At first jan scruggs,the head of the vietnam veterans memorial fund thought mayas design looked like a bat.There are 58,000 names carved into the black granite of the memorial.Her mom and dad is Henry juan lin,and julia chang lin.When the vietnam war ended in 1973 nearly 58,000 americans had been killed,and 300,000 had been wounded.One person even described maya's design as a black gash of shame.She spoke against the statue flag.Visiting the vietnam veterans memorial often makes people sad.i really did mean for people to cry.