As a 21-year-old college student, Maya Lin designed this memorial which is still seen today as a spectacle among all the war memorials. This memorial is something that all of us have learned and seen before. I never knew who was the architect behind this beautiful design but to know that it was a 21-year-old makes it even that much more amazing. As a 21-year-old Yale college student Maya Lin designed this wall in remembrance rather than celebration. She was trying to incorporate the dark tolls that the Vietnam war had on its soldiers while also trying to create something elegant that brought attention to remembering these soldiers. In my eyes, she very much did that. This memorial will live on in history for many more years, the work of Maya Lin will not be forgotten especially in this instance.