Word: monumentalizing
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...rejects, how he adapts to challenges and change." Stacks first interviewed Reagan in 1967, not long after the former movie star had won the first of his two terms as Governor of California. Fifteen years later, Stacks finds that outwardly "Reagan hasn't changed at all. He's a monument to constancy...
...black and abstractly unorthodox style of the Viet Nam Veterans Memorial is not a "humiliating antiwar mockery." The architecture challenges the glory associated with war, a misconception often held by those who have never fought in battle. The monument's gloomy nature is consistent with the reality of war. John Geary San Jose, Calif...
President Reagan displayed his misunderstanding of the Viet Nam Veterans Memorial in his remark "We are beginning to appreciate that they were fighting for a just cause." The monument was not established to justify a questionable war. It honors those who fought and died, and serves as a reminder that the wounded are still among us. Barbara Hart McCarthy Eugene...
...large van that purportedly contained the explosives and was driven to the door of the monument...
Explosives experts said if 1000 pounds of dynamite were detonated around the monument only moderate structural damage would result However, hundreds of pieces of shrapnel could be thrown up to 1800 feet and the blast would be strong enough to break windows in the White House 2000 feet away...