Maya lin's memorial has one corner submerged into the earth; the effect on visitors is that they are in the space of the dead, falling down, alone in the world, winners of the war,

Maya Lin is a21-year-old architecture student, who designed one of the most moving monuments the Vietnam Veterans Memorial which contains the names of all those confirmed dead and missing in action in the Vietnam War.
Maya Lin's memorial has one corner submerged into the earth; the effect on visitors is that they are in the space of the dead.

Because they admired it maybe