Word: monumentalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WASHINGTON--A man threatened to blow up the Washington Monument with a truckload of dynamite yesterday, demanding "a national dialogue on the nuclear weapons question." After 10 hours, police killed him in a rain of gunfire when he attempted to drive off in the direction of the White House...
...dedication of the monument conveys two messages. The first is something those of us who were not there cannot come close to understanding an indication that Vietnam vets can face up to and even take pride in what happened to them The second message is more simple it is time--albeit very late--that the nation, too, treat the Vietnam vet as a winner who deserves as much compassion and honor as veterans of more popular wars Ideally, then, the monument's unveiling can serve as the turning point in how Americans look at the Vietnam War and its survivors...
...expected that organizing anything to do with the Vietnam War would draw fractious sniping After debates in Congress finally ended last year in permission to build the monument, the proposed design came under fire. When the structure envisioned by first-year Graduate School of Design student Maya Y. Lin was finally completed, some argued that the understand black marble was not "heroic" enough and perpetuated the post-war shame of the veterans, so designers agreed to add the traditional large bronze figure of three soldiers and a flag. Then another group raised objections to the victory-V shape...
...building of the monument, though a step forward, demonstrates the same problem. Vietnam vets made the plans, raised the money, organized the parade, and eventually oversaw the dedication themselves. No one else would do it for them. It is time, however, for someone else--namely the U.S. public and government--to do a little for Vietnam veterans...
...John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library on Boston's Columbia Point yesterday, the huge white and black monument to the nation's 35th President was mostly empty, as it is most days, with only a few more visitors than usual, the director said...