Vietnam Memorial

Cultural  

1. A monument in Washington, D.C., in honor of individuals in the American armed services who died in the Vietnam War. The memorial is a large black marble wall set below ground level on a flat part of the Washington Mall. The names of the dead are inscribed in the wall.

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Example Sentences

You go to the Vietnam Memorial and you see one name, two names, people who have died in the Vietnam War.

From Salon

Because the park service feared that a protracted public process like the one for the Vietnam memorial would yield another divisive mess, the law required that the office of the Secretary of Defense decide on and issue the list of names, all at once with no outside input.

From New York Times

It’d be like the Vietnam Memorial, except instead of a powerful minimalist tribute to the lives of thousands of lost soldiers, it’d be a bunch of creepy little clown heads on sticks.

From Washington Post

Philip Kennicott’s Nov. 20 Arts & Style Critic’s Notebook column, “The Vietnam memorial blazed a path that no one followed,” got much right, from the memorial’s architectural novelty to its apolitical approach.

From Washington Post

Opened in 2015, one relatively recent monument that shares the qualities that Mr. Kennicott values in the Vietnam Memorial is the Holodomor Memorial near Union Station.

From Washington Post