Word: monumentalizing
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...have stood for abstractions such as heroism, sacrifice and valor. A place like the Oklahoma City Memorial or the Vietnam Memorial can send its own messages by challenging the simplicity of such values. By questioning what has been appreciated without examination--the glorification of war, for instance--a monument becomes a statement of values itself. Old memorials used to honor permanence. Newer ones treat permanence as an illusion...
...that had an inordinately strong effect on the public consciousness. Yet the idea of public death is also selective. Which events are chosen for memorialization, and which are not? A memorial is the result of the importance the public ascribes to the death. No one thought to create a monument to the victims at Waco because people did not wish to identify with them. Class and race get involved too. There was no move to build a memorial to the 87 Hispanic victims of the Happy Land social club fire in the Bronx in 1990. For a memorial...
ROGER ROSENBLATT and ANDREW CARROLL contributed to our Memorial Day cover stories. Rosenblatt, a TIME editor-at-large, writes about how the U.S. memorializes its dead, focusing on the new monument to the Oklahoma City bombing victims. "Over the years memorials have changed from generals on horseback to public places designed to affect feeling," says Rosenblatt. Carroll provides us with the final letters written by American soldiers who were later killed in combat. He began collecting such memorabilia after his parents' Washington home burned down, and now heads the nonprofit all-volunteer Legacy Project, which collects and preserves war letters...
Jacques Herzog, Pierre de Meuron, Harry Gugger and Christine Binswanger, who share credit for the redesign, were smart enough not to mess too much with the building. "Sir Giles Scott created a monument," says Gugger. "We wanted to blur the boundaries of the monument, to turn it into open space." Blur is the right word. It's the gentle transformation of a giant. The most astonishing thing about it may be that a looming, great, scary industrial complex could become something so polite...
TRAVELER IN CHIEF In 7 1/2 years our jet-setting President has graced every state in the Union--except Nebraska. Now the Cornhuskers are begging Clinton to squeeze them in, for their July Great Platte River Road Archway Monument dedication ceremony. It wouldn't be the first not-so-newsbreaking event he has attended. (Numbers are estimates from White House staff members...