Maya Lin Vietnam Memorial Controversy

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Maya Lin Vietnam Memorial is one of the beautiful places that consist and is made up of black granite wall carved, in this place you can found the carved names of 58,272 Americans who died because of the tragic escapade that happened in Southeast Asia. It is considered as the greatest memorial of all, the most beautiful and most powerful. Maya Lin was made by Freida Lee Mock in 1995 the architect who designed the well known Vietnam Veterans Memorial that is located in Washington D.C. Maya became well known because of his great and stunning designs that made her won the design competition in Vietnam. But after Maya Lin had won with the contest she also became the center of some controversy.

Why Is This A Controversy?

Some people did not actually like the design of Lin, some say that it is just very simple, and some of them got also offended because Lin was a Chinese American student and they just can’t accept that she became the architect of the American memorial of Asian War. Lin was also accused of being a communist and her design was not to beautiful to honor the sufferings that the soldiers had experienced before. With all the controversy that is thrown to Maya Lin she still fight and defended herself, she never let any one judge her because she was just a child. For her, she totally give her best and she did it with full of heart and dedication. She knows how important the roles of soldiers are that is why she makes all her efforts just to create a beautiful peace that will simply honour all the sacrifices by these heroes.

She had still finished her vision of the memorial and after it she feels more successful and happy because she was given the chance to showcase her talent in architecture. She saw how happy the veterans are after they have saw the artwork that she made, some of the veterans evoke their tears and they have reminisced all the experiences that they have been through. They became happy looking at their names that were written on the wall of the historic memorial. Lin was the one who put all the effort in writing the name of the veterans in chronological orders so that the veterans can easily locate their names.

Conclusion

Even though Maya Lin faces a lot of controversies while she was just working with her artwork, she was never get affected and stop their because after all seeing that the veterans and the families that are happy are also the ones that are giving joy on her. The art that Maya Lin created plays a great role in the Memorial making it more an alive and happy place. Nowadays the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is still the one of the most visited place because of the wonderful job that she had contributed that brings it back into a more lively place that will serve as a reminder of the great sacrifices of the soldiers that have faced the war.

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