What Did Maya Yang Lin Contribute To The United States?

This is just a guess, was the young woman that you have named, the winning competition designer of the American Memorial of the Vietnam War on the Mall in Washington, D.C.?
  The "Wall" as it has been nicknamed, has the names of the U.S.
Military personnel who died in fighting that conflict, craved into the black stone walls sunk below the surrounding ground level in the shape of a long "V" shape.  Check it for accuracy.