What national monument did maya lin win a competition and how many other designers and architects did she compete against

Maya Lin is an American Designer and Architect. She became famous for winning a public design competition for the Vietnan Veterans Memorial in 1981. She achieved this by beating 1421 other competitors who also submitted their work to the contest.

The election of her work was controversial due to the fact that she was of Asian ethnicity and feelings towards people from this region were not very friendly after the recent Vietnam War.

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explanation:

in 1897, pershing became a tactical officer at west point, and that's where he was given the nickname "black jack." pershing's first name is "john," for which "jack" is a nickname, and he was a white man who commanded black troops. hence "black jack".