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Danto, Arthur C. | August 31, 1985 issue

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Monuments commemorate the memorable and embody the myths of beginnings. Memorials ritualize remembrance and mark the reality of ends. The Washington Monument, vertical, is a celebration, like fireworks. The memorial is a special precinct, extruded from life, a segregated enclave where one honors the dead. The memorial was dedicated on November 13, 1982-Veterans Day, when there were only the walls and the names, each wall composed of seventy granite panels, with about 58,000 names and room for several hundred more. The reflections in it of the servicemen, the flag, the Monument and the Memorial are appearances of appearances.

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MEMORIALS; VETERANS; MONUMENTS; ARMED Forces; VETERANS Day; MYTHOLOGY
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