![Vietnam Veterans Memorial](/sites/default/files/styles/design_topic_main/public/6.7b.4_0.jpg?itok=XrCYlp6K)
View of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial looking west toward the Washington Monument. The competition-winning design by Maya Lin was dedicated in 1982. The starkly modern memorial, with its wall of inscribed names of the fallen, introduced a new landscape-oriented typology into the design of memorials and a new theme of explicit commemoration of wars on the National Mall.
(image credit: National Park Service)Map