What would the Vietnamese equivalent of “The Wall” look like?
It’s called “The Wall,” a haunting, 493-foot memorial made of solid black granite, polished to a bright shine, and etched with the names of the 58,183 American men and women who never made it home from Vietnam. Formed roughly in the shape of a “V”, the Wall sinks low in the ground, carved into a gentle hillside of the National Mall roughly equidistant between the Washington Monument to the east, and the Lincoln Memorial to the west. The Wall’s Emotional Impact Initially the focus of veterans’ rage over its understated, somewhat somber design, the Wall, formally known as the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, captured the public’s imagination soon after its dedication on November 13, 1982. The effect of viewing the Wall in person is difficult to describe to anyone who has not seen it. Eschewing the heroic figures and ornate language of many war memorials, the Wall’s stark presentation of the names of the dead and missing, listed in the order in which they fell, brings home better than any writt
