"Army ROTC cadets...your training location is not at Yale College. You will be integrated into the Nathan Hale Camp of the 2nd ROTC Brigade along with Army cadets from the Army Academy at the University of New Haven and Southern Connecticut State University.

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"The training location is in the west part of New Haven. In addition to the daily basic formation and physical training, you will train with the Air Force and Navy cadets at the Yale headquarters. For the other elementary courses, you need to go to West Haven."

In the office of the Yale Military Science Department, a man in the uniform of an Air Force colonel vividly performed a Sichuan opera in front of Carter and Rick: Face Changing!

From the ecstasy when I heard that two freshmen had signed up for the ROTC program, to the disappointment when I heard that these two students were actually Army programs. The expressions on my face changed so quickly...

After telling the two of them the address of Camp Nathan Hale rather impatiently, he politely kicked them out of the office. Carter, who had been kicked out of the Yale Military Science Department, looked at each other and felt a small sense of common ground.

The feeling of distress arises spontaneously.

"Let's go to Nathan Hale to report first?"

"Go, you can save tuition! If you don't report it, the Ministry of National Defense won't give you any money!"

"Isn't it the Army ROTC command that pays?"

"Whatever, we don't have to pay for it ourselves anyway!"

Talking and laughing, they walked onto the road, and the two chatted all the time. When they were in Yale, Carter could still see many students coming and going...

Speaking of which, Yale University is one of the few so-called "walkable campuses" in the United States, which means that the entire campus is not very large, or the teaching buildings are relatively concentrated, and most classrooms can usually be reached within a 15-minute walk.

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Walking in such a school, Carter felt a little like returning to his previous life in college. At first glance, except for the different skin colors, these Yale students are generally the same as Carter's classmates back then. At least there is no clue about them on the surface.

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"What does that Asian guy know about design?! ​​What the hell is this?!"

"Henry, don't talk nonsense! She is also our classmate! And the Washington Post's architecture critic Eckardt has also commented. Doesn't the above clarify Maya's design concept? I think it is very good: that goes deep into the ground, and

The monuments arranged on both sides are like a wound, just like war is an unhealable scar in the history of our human civilization, especially for those Vietnam War veterans.”

"What do you know? Do you understand the thoughts of the soldiers in the Vietnam War? How do you know this is a kind of pain? Well, I admit that our battle was a bit imperfect, but because of this, when the situation was obviously not good,

, but we admire the soldiers who still persist in fighting even more! Their monuments should not look like that..."

To go to Camp Nathan Hale in West Haven, you naturally go west. Going west along Church Street, passing the Yale School of Art, Carter and Rick heard such a conversation in their ears.

The attention of the two people who happened to be caught in the window period of the topic was attracted. Rick took advantage of the situation and asked:

"Carter, what do you think of this matter? What do you think of Maya Lin's work? If you put aside her status as a Yale student, make an evaluation as fair and objective as possible."

"You mean the Vietnam Veterans Memorial?"

From the discussion among the students, Carter roughly guessed what the topic was about. But about this monument, how had he ever cared about it?!

However, he has never cared about this monument in this life, but he seemed to have heard of it in his previous life:

"Since the judges of the art jury selected it, it naturally proves that its artistry is impeccable. As for other aspects, I'm sorry, in my opinion, monuments are more for living people to see."

"In the eyes of us living people, there is respect for the deceased, so even inserting a bunch of wild flowers on the roadside on the small slope of a mass grave is still respect for the deceased. If the eyes of the living have already

Without them, no matter how magnificent the monument is, it will be in vain.”

After combining the reports of the endless flow of visitors to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington from his previous life and adding a little bit of his own understanding, Carter responded with a shrug.

"I forgot where I saw a saying that we humans will experience three deaths in this life. The first death is when your heart stops beating and the brain waves stop fluctuating. This is physiological death; the second death

Death is when relatives and friends come to attend your funeral and say goodbye to you. This is the death of a person in society. The third death is when the last person who remembers you dies, and no one in this world remembers that you were here.

This is the ultimate death!"

"Perhaps the purpose of building the monument is to prevent these so-called heroes from being forgotten and to prevent these warriors who have paid their lives physically from facing a real and complete death. Even after their elderly parents pass away,

There is still someone there

When passing by the monument, I saw the names on the inscription. Even a gentle whisper is a call to the dead. I personally feel that as long as we can do this, we will not let them completely disappear here.

This is the greatest respect in the world!"

"So you don't pay much attention to the external appearance of the monument?"

Rick seemed very interested in the slightly novel statement of "the three deaths of human beings". But after hearing the second half of Carter's words, he suddenly agreed with him, but then he thought:

"Green Gourd Sword Fairy"

"No, no! Even if you say, the monument is for living people to see. It should also pay attention to the form, at least let our next generation, the next generation after that, those who don't know the deeds of these heroes, see it at a glance

, you can feel the solemnity. Then go and inquire about their deeds and so on..."

"Uh-huh, then just say yes...actually, I don't even know what the work they are discussing is like that designed by our Yale classmates!"

"Then why don't you go take a look? I seemed to have noticed when I came here that there is a notice in the School of Art, and then there is the Department of Architecture."

"Do you have enough time? We still have to report!"

"There should be enough time, it won't take long to take a look..."

Speaking of this, Carter no longer refused. He followed Rick and turned into the courtyard of the Art Institute. Right at the entrance, at the bulletin board on the first floor of Building 202, Carter saw the controversial work.

The participating bidding work is 1026, which is a monument composed of two mirror-like black granite walls. The two granite walls form a "V" shape. The intersection at the bottom of the "V" is three meters deep underground.

As the wall gradually split into two sides and gradually reached the surface, the names of more than 57,000 soldiers who died in the Vietnam War were engraved on the wall.

After looking at the design work that was selected as the first place, Carter turned his attention to the second place next to it. Seeing this second place design, Carter couldn't help but frown.

A simple sculpture of three Vietnam War soldiers, a work with no creativity at all. Even Carter could not connect this sculpture with the monument...

If it were just this, it would be fine. As if for the sake of political correctness, the three soldier sculptures had to be made into a white man, a black man and a Latino character model.

It's like conveying that all races in America are one family, but if you really want to think that, don't put the white soldier statue in front of the black and Latino soldiers?!

He shouted that everyone is equal, and then secretly made the status of white people obviously superior to that of other ethnic groups. I have to say, this is very American...
Chapter completed!