We just learned about the Marine Corps War Memorial - Felix de Weldon.
Another famous American monument is the Vietnam Veterans Memorial made by Maya Lin in Washington D.C. in 1981.
In 1981 there was a contest to see who could come up with the best sculpture for a new memorial for the people who died in the Vietnam War.
Maya Lin won the contest, and her idea was to have a big black wall made of granite, with the names of all of the people who died engraved on it.
The memorial is v-shaped when you look at it from above, and her idea was that it would look kind of like a wound that needed to heal for America.
(from: wikipedia - vietnam veterans memorial)
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