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Almost four decades after her design for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial brought her work to the national stage, Maya Lin is reinventing the memorial again through her environmental activist foundation, What is Missing.

The “Black Gash of Shame”—Revisiting the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Controversy

by Elizabeth Wolfson | Mar 15, 2017

The “Black Gash of Shame”—Revisiting the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Controversy

by Elizabeth Wolfson | Mar 15, 2017

Elizabeth Wolfson recounts the early controversy surrounding Maya Lin’s Vietnam Veterans Memorial, and the delicate balance that must be achieved when memorializing war’s heroes and victims.