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MEMORIAL. A petition or representation made by one or more individuals to a legislative or other body. When such instrument is addressed to a court, it is called a petition.

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Edwardes had striven for five consecutive years to be allowed to recite a piece of his own composition on Gloucester Memorial Day.

View in context

It's set to go up on a piece of land just off the Tidal Basin, putting it within view of the Jefferson, Lincoln, and Roosevelt memorials.

The National Mall goes kitsch: America's cluttered backyard shows just how hard it is for Congress to say "no."

The spirit behind this action was clearly articulated in a July 26 New York Sun article in which Rees Lloyd, a lawyer and unit commander with the American Legion, was quoted as saying, "I'm appalled at the notion that the ACLU or any other purported public interest law firm would be suing veterans' memorials and then seeking taxpayer-funded attorney fee awards.

Timeline

Goert told the Budgeteer News: "The city of Duluth does not have the capacity to keep up with all of the maintenance for all of the memorials in addition to their other duties, but groups like ours are extremely invested in the up-keep, and we are willing to have it be part of our ongoing work.

A living history lesson

AMERICAN FORESTS has long advocated the planting of trees as me, memorials.

A prince plants trees: Prince Albert announced that proceeds from his 2002 Monte Carlo Invitational--Pro Celebrity golf tournament would go to honor the 9-11 victims

Wednesday, marking the moment the first plane hit the World Trade Towers a year earlier and signaling the start of a day of memorials to those killed in the Sept.

MEMORIAL EVENTS

All began living memorials that created a place of tribute for the local community.

Memorials that live on: some good ideas should last for a lifetime. Here's an example of one that has. (Editorial)

Maybe you can get away with defacing walls with graffiti, and even throwing trash cans on the tracks to get your kicks watching them flattened by a passing freight train, but when you start desecrating our war memorials, you're cutting into the bone marrow of this country.

REPUDIATING VANDALS, BRICK BY BRICK

Eschewing the formality and grandiose neoclassicism of the Washington Monument and the Jefferson and Lincoln Memorials, the modernist-inflected FDR Memorial unobtrusively melds into its "natural" setting.

A Rendezvous with Density

It does require cynicism to disregard the critical interpretations of writers who enable us to commence the struggle for a world in which memorials to peacemakers occupy public spaces at least equally with warriors.

From patriotism to peace: the humanization of war memorials

Some old trees in our public spaces are long-forgotten war memorials.

Rooted in memory

We wanted an educational memorial because most other memorials are limited in information,'' said Warren Johnson, a member of the committee planning the memorial.