In 1979, Congress grants a Vietnam War veterans' committee ... the name among the 57,661 listed. Lin describes the Memorial thus: "I went to see the site. I had a general idea that I wanted ...

Sculptor and architect Maya Lin is best known for her design of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., but modern viewers may not know about her rise to prominence and the subsequent ...

Maya Lin won a national contest to design the Vietnam memorial in 1981 when she was a 21-year-old senior at Yale University.

In 1979, Congress grants a Vietnam War veterans' committee ... the name among the 57,661 listed. Lin describes the Memorial thus: "I went to see the site. I had a general idea that I wanted ...