'The Vietnam War Memorial\r'

'The Vietnam War Memorial, like the warfare it memorializes, was initially steeped in controversy. It was called unemotional and ‘a depressed gash of disconcert’. Criticism was leveled at the artist for her macrocosm of Asiatic extraction. Like the Vietnam War, Ameri burns gradually began to see the other spatial relation of the coin and it is now one of America’s most revered art pieces. It is comprised of black granite panels beat into ground so that the viewer literally walks into the piece. On the panel is carved the pay heed calling of the 58,000 plus American war dead (Sands).\r\nIt is a part of the landscape by design. Lin said, â€Å"I didn’t want to supplant a living park. You use the landscape. You don’t fight with it,” (greatbuildings.com).  A companion piece, a statue of American warriors, war weary and in battle crop was erected at the site. I commend the memorial is a moving piece of art, fraught with symbolism th at is more than apparent when visiting it than it can ever be from photos or descriptions. It is the duty of whatever solid ground that sends its three-year-old men into combat to remember and honor those who gave the last for their country.\r\nI think that while hostilities are current and the deaths are mounting, however, the testimonial should take a nominate different from a cold memorial. I think the man who sent them to the war zone should point us the names of each fall warrior at the close of day and explain how that warrior died. If he refuses, then each day in the House of Representatives the names should be read, and those names then be carried to the washrag House.\r\nThe purpose of a war memorial is non al styles the same for every(prenominal) war and for every cause. It can be a tribute to the move dead in a war that was waged for survival. It can be a piece of propaganda for a war that had no business being waged. It can be designed and erected as a balm to mend the scars of a bitter and divisive conflict. Vietnam divided our nation and nearly brought us into open rebellion with the governing that refused to listen to the will of the people.\r\nThe veterans of the Vietnam War seem to be flooded with memories when they confront the names of fallen comrades whose names are engraved in the polished black granite. Yusef Komunyakaa’s poem, go about It, described the feeling he had of being back in the war, symbolically being inside the memorial itself. He could see the magnification that killed his friend by reading the man’s name on the wall. â€Å"I touch the name Andrew Johnson; I see the booby trap’s white flash,” (lines 16-17), he says in the poem. At Santa Monica margin near Los Angeles every Sunday a topical anesthetic chapter of the Veterans for stay erects a temporary memorial to the fallen dead of the Iraq War (Veterans For Peace).\r\nIt is called Arlington westmost for the Arlington Nationa l burying ground in the east.  It is similar to and different from the Vietnam War Memorial. It has a list of fallen Americans as a tribute to them but also it memorializes the dead Iraqis, which the Vietnam Wall does not do for the fallen Vietnamese. Volunteers erect rows of crosses and symbolic sag draped coffins. It is more performance art than a permanent fixture but still emotionally moving, particularly to the families of the dead. Visiting there is a right smart to express the grief and frustration the same as at the Vietnam Wall. It shows that there is not a mavin way to create a memorial any more than there a single way to create art. There are different slipway to move people.\r\nThe Vietnam Wall is a vital stout and moving tribute to a nasty war. It has helped to repair a divided nation and bring closure. The Arlington West project is for an ongoing war and can be seen as a protest of that war as much as a memorial to the dead. The bringing close together of req uiring the people who send men off to war to read the names of the dead seems to be fitting. They would be forced to see the toll they are winning at least in terms of number and perhaps put a face on the dead. For now they are simply statistics.\r\nBibliography\r\nGreatbuildings.com  2007  Viet Nam Veterans Memorial Retrieved 4-3-07\r\nFrom:http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Vietnam_Veterans_Memorial.html    \r\nKomunyakaa, Y. Facing It    HERE INSERT THE FOLLOWING: call down OF text edition BOOK, CITY OF PUBLICATION FOLLOWED BY COLON, THEN NAME OF PUBLISHER AND THE YEAR OF PUBLICATION\r\nSands, K.  Jack cartridge holder  Maya Lin’s Wall: A Tribute to Americans Retrieved 4-\r\n3-07 from:  http://www.jackmagazine.com/issue9/essayksands.html\r\nVeterans For Peace   4-07  Arlington West Memorial Santa Monica Retrieved\r\n4-3-07 from: http://www.arlingtonwestsantamonica.org/\r\n \r\n'