A “ROBOTIC-WIKI” - Clemson University

Memorial represents an example of such a debate in the United States, as there are three
compositional representations of it:
(1) “The Wall,” is comprised of an abstract black granite wall inscribed with the
names of all who died or remain missing in the war, (Figure 2.4, left);
(2) The “Three Servicemen Statue,” (Figure 2.4, middle), is another
representation of the Vietnam War memory. “Many historical and veterans groups
protested the unorthodox design [of the Wall] and wanted to add a more
traditional statue and an American Flag” (Messmore, 2002, webpage); and
(3) The “Vietnam Women's Memorial” is incorporated “to promote the healing
of Vietnam women veterans through the placement of the Vietnam Women’s
Memorial on the grounds of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington,
D.C.; to identify the military and civilian women who served during the Vietnam
war” (Figure 2.4, right).
In this example, on commemorating the event of Vietnam War, there are many
perspectives to recall such memory, with many interpretations and representations in the
various forms of the monument. Literally, there is no one representation capable of
satisfying people’s needs to recall and represent their memories.
Historically, the need for changing the characteristics of the medium that embody
people’s representations, e.g. monuments, can be traced back to the Greek historian
Herodotus in “The Persian Wars.” Herodotus described the characteristics of that change
when Scythians, agrarian-based nomadic tribes in ancient Iran, was able to change the
political and cultural power that dominated Asia for twenty seven years, through their
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