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Ed Linenthal, a professor of religious studies at the University of Wisconsin and the author of a forthcoming book on the Oklahoma City Memorial, says that with the advent of the new memorials, "the memory of the event will be as transforming as the event itself and as humanizing as...
The new memorials are not only education sites; they are also, at a primal level, burial places--"a communal site of memory," says Linenthal. The chairs at the Oklahoma City Memorial contain what is often called the presence of absence. To Linenthal, the new memorials are "places of civic transformation...
The nature of protest itself is complicated. In Oklahoma City, people have said the memorial is a protest against a godless education; thus it stands as an argument for prayer in public schools. They have said it protests a permissive society, that it stands against violence in the movies and...
Peter Linenthal says that although he was very young at the time, he remembers when his mother sold her first story.
"I think [writing] has become increasingly important as she's had more success with it," Peter Linenthal says. "But I know it's something she's always done even before she was successful."