The creation of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial helped heal this wound and put an unknown architecture student into the history books.

Thesis Statement: The creation of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial helped heal this wound and put an unknown architecture student into the history books. 

Body Paragraph 1 Topic Sentence: In 1980, when the call went out for designs for a Vietnam War memorial, no one could have predicted that as many as 14,000 entries would be submitted.

Support 1: Rules of the Contest

Support 2: Judges Selection Process

Support 3: Selected Winner: Maya Lin

Body Paragraph 2 Topic Sentence: The memorial would have shining black granite slabs embedded in a long V-shaped trench, with one end pointing toward the Lincoln Memorial and the other toward the Washington Monument.

Support 1: Lin’s definition of the trench

Support 2: Location of the Memorial’s names

Support 3: Necessity for a Directory

Body Paragraph 3 Topic Sentence: Although the design satisfied all the contest criteria and was the judges’ clear favorite, it aroused much controversy.

Support 1: Critics called the memorial unpatriotic

Support 2: Artist’s responses to critics

Support 3: Eventual compromise between artist and critics

Closing Statement: A place of national mourning and of love, Maya Lin’s monument has helped heal the wounds of the Vietnam War.

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