war memorials

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  7-31-18
  

  A wave of war memorials is coming to D.C.

  Are we all at peace with that?

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• 7-13-17
  

  Think “Dunkirk” Is Epic? Check Out the Soviet War Memorial in Berlin’s Treptower Park.

  by Peter Cole

  It just might be the most impressive and important war memorial Americans never have heard of.

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• SOURCE: The Boston Globe
  7-23-17
  

  How do you memorialize fallen in a war without end?

  An effort is underway to revise a law that prevents memorials from being built on there Mall for wars still in progress.

• SOURCE: Guardian (UK)
  8-3-13
  

  Henry Porter: The Great War: We Are as Blind to Our Times as the Innocent Lovelorn Boy was in 1913

  Henry Porter is a writer and journalist specialising in liberty and civil rights.The inscription carved into the huge beech tree, which stands on a hill path in Gloucestershire, reads PM 10/9/13 MKN. Next month, this piece of vandalism – though I cannot see it as that now – will be 100 years old, which seems incredible for something probably done on the spur of the moment. I often wonder about PM and MKN – if their love lasted and whether both made it through the First World War, which broke out 11 months later, on Tuesday 4 August.

• SOURCE: The Scotsman (UK)
  8-7-13
  

  Anger over Bothwell Bridge battle site building plan

  A PLANNED housing development on the site of a 17th-century battlefield is an “insult” to the soldiers who lost their lives there, critics have said. Cala Homes wants to move a war memorial and build a multi-million-pound estate on Covenanters’ Field in Bothwell, Lanarkshire. There are plans for 15 homes on the site of the 1679 Battle of Bothwell Bridge.But the move has drawn fierce protests from objectors, who claim it would be an “act of desecration” at an important historic site.Ten objections have been lodged so far, with some from as far afield as the United States....