It was a requirement by the veterans to list the 57,000 names. We're reaching a time that we'll acknowledge the individual in a war on a... →
Maya Lin
I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans. The... →
I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost... →
When I was building the Vietnam Memorial, I never once asked the veterans what it was like in the war, because from my point of view, you don't... →
The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost.
I remember hearing the song when I was 12 or 14 in - it must have been in Chicago, 'cause we didn't have a radio on the farm, and it was... →
Abbey Lincoln
Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he... →
Abraham Lincoln
I see the kids and I feel like taking them all away to a safe place to hide until the war stops and the hunger stops and El Cua becomes strong enough... →
Ben Linder
If the Founding Fathers and other patriots who fought during the Revolutionary War could see the United States today, I believe they would be proud... →
John Linder
And our pessimists think this has taken too long. Our pessimists believe that too many Americans have died. Our pessimists believe that we have lost... →