Vietnam Veteran's Memorial Wall: representations and cultural wars

There are several interesting peculiarities of the monument. This is a huge "V", whose walls are inclined, and whose surface is so polished that we can see the names of those who died, while all the time we reflected on the wall, and we can see the whole environment Washington DC No doubt many of whom interpela: the Americans, who remembered for who fought, yet it is made clear in what place are unemployed. As poses Dean MacCannell (1992), this is a good monument semióticamente accurate. Its shape, "V" is a traditional representation of the feminine, while the output of pointing directly to the obelisk monument that commemorates the figure of George Washington, a true symbol of what fálico-you can see that detail in the photo at the top of this paragraph.

The road is on the side of the wall is also an inclined plane-you can see this detail in the photo which is located underneath this paragraph-and, as they walked the wall becomes more and more high. At one point, hundreds of names are stacked on our head. As we move forward, the road turns uphill, the list of names begins to become shorter, and when we go out we find ourselves in front of the monument to Washington.