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...Baltic port city of Gdansk became a symbol of the spirit of Solidarity, the newly formed independent trade union movement. It was here that Lech Walesa, the movement's leader, first made his demands for economic and social reform. Months later, when Solidarity swept the country, a monument was erected at the gate to commemorate both the birth of the union in 1980 and the 45 Poles killed in the food riots of 1970. Last week, shortly after the army and police had broken a strike by shipworkers protesting martial law and the arrest of hundreds of Solidarity's leaders...
American architects are having trouble finding suitable "monumental forms" to express the American dream, a panel of monument builders and design critics said in a forum Saturday at the Graduate School of Design...
...Viet Nam veteran, I think the winning entry for the Viet Nam memorial is a loser. The proposed monument may satisfy the needs of the Washington Mall but it fails to impart what the war meant to those who fought it. In 1968 newsmagazines printed a photo of a U.S. army tank carrying soldiers wounded in Hue during the Tet offensive. That picture says more about the pain and sacrifice Americans suffered than the proposed "hole in the ground...
...proposed monument to commemorate the Viet Nam War and its veterans looks so peaceful. I suggest one addition: a statue of an American rifleman pointing toward the White House with the inscription NEVER AGAIN WILL SO MANY GIVE SO MUCH FOR SO LITTLE...
...winter fell on Warsaw last week, the honor guard stepped smartly up to Poland's Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. A crowd of 2,000, including a row of officials, watched in respectful silence as President Henryk Jablonski solemnly placed a wreath at the base of the granite monument. In hundreds of towns and cities throughout the Western world, Armistice Day is observed in much the same fashion. But the Polish ceremony marked a significant break with the Communist past, a symbol of rising patriotism that was finally acknowledged by the government, despite the possibility of a hostile reaction...