Iraq memorial
If you haven’t seen it yet, here is a video about the Iraq Veterans Memorial, an online, video tribute made up of one-minute shows about the fallen from their loved ones, starting March 17.
When I proposed a memorial for the World Trade Center, I suggested video tributes. Memorials need not be a place on the map anymore. It’s the memory, more than the monument, that counts.
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March 14th, 2007 at 6:42 pm
A great book that I highly recommend on the subject of memorials and memory.. The Texture of Memory: Holocaust Memorials and Meaning by James Young. As one reviewer put it,
“…the author reminds us, [that Memory] is never neutral or value-free. We do not have instant recall–direct access to the facts as they were. Thus it is not just the future that brings change: the past, too, is always being altered, caught between an originating event and the impossibility of ever recapturing it.”
Then put that thought into a networked context where we believe (whether it be true or not) that we do in fact have direct access to the past, it presents some interesting fodder for further consideration.