Why Memorial Is Important
Memorialize A person’s greatest fear is being forgotten, and in a way, those who lived before live on in the memories of the living. Sometimes memories aren’t enough a people need a way to preserve the memories of a great person or an event that had a significant impact on a group. Memorials serve as a physical link to the past and a reminder of the impact event and people have had on society. The United States of America is filled with these tokens to the time gone by. It takes more than the will to preserve the past to build a memorial. Several factors need to be considered before a group or agency creates a monument to memorialize an event or person.
No doubt, location of the monument should be strongly contemplated. People need to have …show more content…
Not the reason the person or event is being memorialized for, but what the subject means to different types of people. A copious amount of monuments are controversial over the option if the monument is honouring or disgracing the person or event. An example of such controversy is the building of the National Holocaust Memorial Museum. Writer Christine Musser wrote this, “The controversy grew from Jewish 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,”(Musser). People against the building of the museum were seeing it as a disgrace to the memory of the horrendous acts committed in World War II. Especially since the United States denied entry to victims trying to flee Europe. Later in the article Musser quotes, “George Will, a political columnist, states, "No other nation has a broader, graver responsibility in the world . . . No other nation more needs citizens trained to look life in the face",”(Musser). George Will brings up how the National Holocaust Memorial Museum would be honouring the memory of the victims and survivors by teaching United States citizens the mistakes of the past. The goal is to prevent something similar from happening ever
No doubt, location of the monument should be strongly contemplated. People need to have …show more content…
Not the reason the person or event is being memorialized for, but what the subject means to different types of people. A copious amount of monuments are controversial over the option if the monument is honouring or disgracing the person or event. An example of such controversy is the building of the National Holocaust Memorial Museum. Writer Christine Musser wrote this, “The controversy grew from Jewish 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,”(Musser). People against the building of the museum were seeing it as a disgrace to the memory of the horrendous acts committed in World War II. Especially since the United States denied entry to victims trying to flee Europe. Later in the article Musser quotes, “George Will, a political columnist, states, "No other nation has a broader, graver responsibility in the world . . . No other nation more needs citizens trained to look life in the face",”(Musser). George Will brings up how the National Holocaust Memorial Museum would be honouring the memory of the victims and survivors by teaching United States citizens the mistakes of the past. The goal is to prevent something similar from happening ever