The times they are a changin'

The post title would be, appropriately, from the Bob Dylan song, but Rico says he is old enough to remember when Maya Lin's design for the Vietnam Veterans' Memorial (aka The Wall) was called 'a black gash of shame', but now is beloved, even by vets, and is being promoted by the likes of the American Legion in their magazine (May 2012 issue, page 8), along with a new Education Center to be built nearby...