"To fly, we have to have resistance."--Maya Ying Lin.(The Last Word)(Brief article)

New Moon | July 1, 2006 | Copyright

Have you ever been to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial? It's the most-visited memorial in Washington, D.C.--more than 4 million people stop to see the V-shaped, black stone wall each year. At 20 years old, Maya Ying Lin designed the memorial for a class project. She was a senior architecture student at Yale University at the time. Maya's design beat out 1,400 other entries, but it wasn't well received by the public. No one even mentioned her name at the dedication ceremony in 1982.

After Maya won the design contest, five government agencies had to review the plans for ...

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