In 1979, Congress grants a Vietnam War veterans' committee the right to ... no one is more surprised than the student architect herself, Maya Lin, a 20-year-old Yale undergraduate.

Maya Lin is a contemporary Asian-American artist and architect best known for her powerful Vietnam Veterans Memorial (1982 ... for those who had died or went missing in the Vietnam War. Her selection ...

Maya Lin was born in Athens ... And while all of the war memorials that line the National Mall in Washington D.C. are heartrending, the Vietnam Memorial seems to me at least, very personal with those ...

In 1979, Congress grants a Vietnam War veterans' committee the right to ... no one is more surprised than the student architect herself, Maya Lin, a 20-year-old Yale undergraduate.

When I won the competition to design the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, it was anonymous. You were a number. I was 1026. To this day I have to wonder, had my name been out there, would that have made ...