Word: monumentously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ways in which languages evolve: the panel had to devise forms of communication that could be understood by the next 300 or so generations. One suggestion is a waste repository with a series of raised earth barriers built around it in a triangular pattern. Within this wedge would be monument-like markers, as durable and detectable as England's Stonehenge monoliths. These structures would bear triangular warning symbols or cartoons as simple in design as the 17,000-year-old cave drawings by Cro-Magnon man in France. One proposed sequence of drawings: three human figures stand...
...dedication ceremony marked a double triumph. A Washington television station, WDVM, which had earlier charged Scruggs and other veteran organizers with misappropriating funds for the monument, retracted the story, apologized and contributed $50,000 to the memorial fund. Noting that Viet Nam vets, unlike those of America's earlier wars, were forced to build their own memorial, Scruggs said, "As it turned out, the monument has more of an impact being done privately. It was Viet Nam veterans taking care of their buddies...
...some, the weekend came close to achieving that end. "If the country rejected us, and it did," said John Ruehlmann, 37, a former Army sergeant, "we can get together here, bound by the monument." That harmony was expressed in a variety of ways, from a candlelight vigil to a '60s nostalgia concert by Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons; the mood throughout shuttled between tearful meditation and joyous, beery reunions. At the end, just about everyone seemed to feel a little better...
...monument," explained Everett Alvarez Jr., a Navy veteran who was the first American pilot to be shot down over North Viet Nam, "marks the final step of dedicated effort to overcome the past...
Perhaps the dispute over the war's monument at least will be put to rest. When Designer Maya Ying Lin's Viet Nam Memorial was unveiled in 1982, few denied the power of the low, somber black granite wall, now engraved with the names of 58,007 Americans dead or missing in the war. Nonetheless, many veterans felt that the wall was not uplifting, not heroic enough. So officials of the memorial fund risked the wrath of those who liked the wall as it was and asked Frederick Hart, 40, a Washington sculptor who had finished third...