The Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC is an appropriate tribute to Vietnam veterans. Designed by Maya Ying Lin an architectural senior at Yale the memorial is a long almost “v” shape that goes slightly under ground in the middle. The memorial walls are made of black granite and are lined with 57,692 names of veterans who died during the war. The New York Times were the first ones to write about this memorial and about Miss. Lin and they received a lot of controversial responses. One response was written by Tom Carhart, a Vietnam veteran, who didn’t think the memorial was an appropriate tribute. He claimed that it wasn’t appropriate that a panel of only civilians picked the memorial. He wrote that they had never experienced the war
