The American Scholar

Revisionism Revised

MY BROTHER’S NAME IS ETCHED INTO the black granite face of the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington, D. C. Dedicated in 1982, Maya Lin’s masterpiece was unlike any war memorial that preceded it, commemorating as it did not just generals, or the boys from a given town, but

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