Vietnam War Memorial Sunrise, Washington, DC, USA Editorial Photo

The Vietnam Veterans War Memorial with wreaths and the Washington Monument in the distance at sunrise. Taken December 21, 2012 at Northwest Rectangle, Washington, District of Columbia. Vietnam War Memorial, Washington, DC, USA. The Vietnam Veterans War Memorial is most abstract memorial on the National Mall. It is also, to many, the most profound and emotional. The two sunken black granite walls, dedicated in 1982, are inscribed with the names of the 58,000-plus American service members who died in the Vietnam War. Designer Maya Lin called her controversial design an “anti-monument.”