Word: monumentalizing
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...General Nathan Bedford Forrest, Grand Wizard of the original Ku Klux Klan -- is now named in memory of Ralph McGill, the anti-racist newspaperman who was once derided as Rastus McGill by people who now speak reverentially of his contribution to the community. The city's best-known monument is not a statue to the Confederate fallen but the grave of Martin Luther King Jr. The civil rights activists who once used Atlanta's airports to travel the South, organizing the struggle, are now in City Hall: these days, they travel the world, organizing high-rise office building projects...
...every June, crowds of scruffy youths descend before dawn on ancient Stonehenge on Britain's Salisbury Plain. Last week 4,000 hippies, as they are quaintly called in Britain, turned the annual rite into a full-scale riot, partly to protest the barriers erected around the early Bronze Age monument in recent years to protect it from crowds...
...American service members who died in the Viet Nam War, eight were women. Last week, despite the fact that the Viet Nam Veterans Memorial wall in Washington lists all the dead without regard to race, rank or gender, the U.S. Senate voted 96 to 1 to build another monument at the same site to honor the women who served in Viet Nam. The proposed addition, a statue of a female nurse, still requires House approval...
...Senate endorsed the plan over protests by Maya Lin, designer of the original monument, and Washington's Commission of Fine Arts. The statue of the nurse would not be the first one to compromise the somber dignity of Lin's wall of black granite. As a response to complaints from veterans' groups, "traditional" statues of infantrymen -- portraying one black, one white and one Native American soldier -- were added to the site in 1984, along with a flag standard...
Carlucci met the deadline and forced the Pentagon brass to come up with real cuts rather than paper ones. The Navy at first tried what cynics call the "Washington Monument strategy." That refers to the National Park Service practice of countering every budget cut with a proposal to reduce visiting hours at the nation's monuments -- knowing full well that Congress would never allow it. The Navy's version was to propose delaying a 4.3% military pay raise and killing both a Trident nuclear missile-firing submarine and two Los Angeles-class attack submarines, all congressional favorites. Carlucci coldly ordered...