
Today’s Women’s History Month illustration is of Maya Lin, American architect and sculptor. In 1981, at the age of 21, she won a public design competition for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, beating over 1,000 other submissions. The graceful and abstract v-shaped granite memorial was originally seen as controversial because it was a non traditional design for a war memorial, but it has since become a popular and emotional draw for the public. More than 10,000 people view the memorial per day.
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