The Wall

Maya Lin was still in college when she submitted her proposal to a design competition commemorating those who died in the Vietnam War. 

Some questioned her inexperience. Some found her vision, the black granite "wound" as she described it, too morose. Still others raised concerns about her Asian descent, despite being born in the U.S. and enrolled in an Ivy League institution.

Now at the end of another bloody week in America, we are left to wonder where these names, and the others not yet identified, will be engraved?

RIP .... Delaina Ashley Yaun, Paul Andre Michels, Xiaojie Tan, and Daoyou Feng.

“Do not diminish who you are. Your gender, your heritage, your identity. That's what makes you unique." – Kailin Gow