Word: monumentalizing
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...kind. Eventually she settled here in Cambridge with her husband a local clergyman, and doubtless she walked within the shadows of Memorial Hall, perhaps taking the time from its clock tower. She knew that that building, then the largest academic building in North America, was a monument not only to the dead Harvard men of the Union Army, but to the freedom of her people as well. Her daughter, my mother, brought me as a child on the obligatory tour of Harvard to see the glass flowers and the Yard, and took me to the transept of Memorial Hall...
...Memorial Church, as is well known, is a memorial, first to the Harvard dead of the First World War. At the time of the building of the Church in 1932, the question was raised as to whether this was a monument to the victors, or to the Harvard men who died in the war, and a controversy raged across the pages of The Crimson and within the alumni body, President Lowell decided the issue in favor of the allies, and their names are inscribed in the Memorial Room...
...predecessors on the Board of Preachers, however, were not willing to see a Christian Church as a monument only to a victorious cause no matter how righteous, and wished posterity to be reminded of the human sacrifice of Harvard men drawn into the universal folly of war. They thus erected what I continue to believe is the most elegant and moving of all of Harvard's memorials located on the north wall of the Church and written in Latin, thus providing a decent obscurity against the sensibilities of those who would be offended, a bronze plaque reads "Harvard University...
WANT TO SEE A CIVIC MONUMENT THAT NO CITY would ever want? Go to New Orleans and proceed to the intersection of Congress and Law streets, just a few blocks from the tourists' Latin Quarter. Walk anywhere in that neighborhood of trashed storefronts and blunt-shouldered housing projects. It won't take long to find walls that are spattered with grimy little craters. Those are bullet holes. Every one of them is an unofficial memorial to the mayhem that was daily life around there until not so long...
...suspect in the worst single instance of domestic terrorism in U.S. history: the bombing two days earlier of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. The horribly ravaged and hollowed- out structure--a giant wedding cake smashed by a malevolent fist--had become a national monument to loss. The final death toll: 169, including 19 children, most of whom had been dropped off at a day-care center shortly before the blast...