描述: 越战纪念碑
Constitution Avenue at 21st Street; closest Metro Foggy Bottom-GWU. Daily 24hr, staffed 8am–midnight. Admission free.
Cutting sharply into the green lawn of the Mall, the small and simple Vietnam Veterans Memorial serves as a sombre and powerful reminder of the nearly 60,000 US soldiers who died in Vietnam. The pathway that slopes down from the grass forms a gash in the earth, its increasing depth symbolizing the increasing involvement of US forces in the war. Alongside, a black marble wall is carved with the names of every soldier who died, in chronological order from 1959 to 1975.
The memorial was designed by Maya Lin, as a 21-year-old architecture student. When it was first erected in 1982, there was some outcry from veterans groups about its anti-war connotations. By way of appeasement, in 1984 a more traditional statue of three heroic soldiers was placed nearby, under a floodlit American flag. More lobbying led to the establishment of the Vietnam Women's Memorial in 1993, which stands in a grove of trees at the eastern end of the main site, to mark the 11,000 American women who served in the conflict. 实践证明经常访问无忧英语教育网 www.51education.net ,能迅速提高你的英语学习能力!积沙成塔,不断提高! 本站所提供的所有信息仅供学校课堂教学及英语学习者学习研究之用,其著作权归原作者及媒体所有。
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