Memorial Day

Columbus, Iwo Jima, The Vietnam Memorial, and the drawn out list continues of the many remarkable people and events that over the years artists have created memorials of/for. People create statues, plaques, mausoleums, etc., all for someone who has done something so phenomenal for this nation, as well of astonishing and even devastating events that have forever left an imprint on America and the rest of the world. Designing and having the task of dedicating a beautiful memorial to something…

and non-Jewish communities, primarily due to the fact that a museum dedicated to the memory of the Holocaust would be built in the United States, who did little to stop the Holocaust from occurring.” (Source E) Such as with the proposed Holocaust Memorial Museum in the National Mall, some citizens may take offense from the monument. This can cause an uproar of complaints as well as a loss of business to the companies around it. Additionally, the funds spent to build the structure will be wasted.…

will be located. These memorials show memorable events of historic periods that occurred in the past. Factors like location and the investment would have a great affect when establishing a monument. Memorials are valuable and should be presented honorably. Investment in monuments would show how important the memorial would be because it would bring tremendous representation and input definition. Investing in monuments would be a huge profit to the future since memorials are created…

deep sacrifice has been made and the location, along with the price, is reasonable. A monument should be constructed when a deep sacrifice to the country has been made; “all the names of those missing and killed (57,000) must be part of the memorial;...” (Lin) This evidence shows that those 57,000 people that either went missing or were killed made an enormous sacrifice for the United States. Their sacrifice will never be forgotten due to their braveness for stepping up and answering the…

Throughout much of history commemorating people became primary evidence of important events and important figures portrayed during that time. From small statues to enormous temples, it shed light to the type of role or power the person held. Most of these commemorating items were built in order to show the power of the person and for a place of worship for future people/citizens, due to their religious views or rituals. The mummy portrait of a woman and the bust of a woman, were both very…

The religious and spiritual activist Dorothy Day had a passion for writing. She combined these passions by founding the Catholic Worker, a mixture of journalistic reports, editorials, diaries, and meditations. Day’s “Memorial Day in Chicago” was a journalistic report that is meant to persuade readers to take a stand and advocate for peace. She places guilt on the audiences as she pleads everyone to become their own activist. She accomplishes these by first asking us questions, then placing our…

Family, friends, and employees were all at my family’s land on Memorial Day having our annual 5k mud run when we got that awful call. I remember coming up the big creek embankment and hearing people scream in panic and hearing what sounded like vehicles trying to get unstuck. I thought to myself “What could be wrong?” thinking someone had got injured. I remember my cousin, Cole, frantically running to me telling me to hurry because my uncle’s pet store, Pet World, in Lawrence was on fire. That…

It was a breezy, cloudy day, sometime around 1:15 pm on a Monday afternoon, with a slight chance of rain, and a lot of people present. Sitting there was President Abraham Lincoln, white faced covered in marble, facing the Washington Monument, another great historical location, about 1.5 miles apart from each other. Also surrounded by a lot of historical memorials like: The Korean War Veterans Memorial, and The Vietnam Veteran Memorial. Standing tall the Lincoln Memorial is surrounded by large…

The Martin Luther Memorial is also known as the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial. This memorial is located on four acres of land near the National Mall. This monument is to remember the 1964 Civil Rights Act that Martin Luther had a big role in. He was one of the most well-known leaders of the Civil Rights Movement. He was a Baptist Minister and social activist who fought for equal rights and influenced the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The same year, he also received the Noble Peace Prize. In…

most important speeches in the nation’s history was given on August 28th, 1963 by the most influential and iconic leader of the Civil Rights movement. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. along with more than 250,000 peaceful supporters marched to the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. The march was to rally the American public to celebrate 100 years of Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation and to support the changes necessary for racial equality and justice for colored people. Although there was…