Yesterday was the second anniversary of the disaster we call Katrina. I was surprised that there was no reading of names, no pause for a moment to remember each soul lost, as there is when we remember so many other tragedies. Read the rest of this entry »
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I don’t really think the internet needs yet another post on the War in Iraq. Yet, I want to say just a little bit, which is as much about two news stories as it is about a place in the Middle East. What a sad and no-win situation this whole “adventure” has become, no? Sometimes stories converge in compelling ways; today is one of those days. The new issue of the online The Onion is out today and – perhaps unsurprisingly, perhaps surprisingly – its lead-story is too perfectly suited to the online edition of The New York Times.
I posted a week or so back on the two Flight 93 memorials – one actual, one in plan – in Shanksville, PA. In remembering so much sadness in one site, everything is at stake. This is only more urgent when we consider that this is our memorial, a national site of memory. And so The Weekly Standard’s headline was right to propose this statement, which is then the question answered by the article: “The Memorials We Deserve.” Read the rest of this entry »
Of all places, The Weekly Standard has a really interesting article on memorializing the plane crash in Pennsylvania on 11 September 2001. The “Flight 93″ site. I find the article compelling because it brings out just how impossible such memorials are in terms of mass consumption. To be honest, I’m always puzzled about what might be the proper strategy. That said, I have a few ideas about what is wrong with both of the existing memorials…and maybe any national memorial whatsoever. Read the rest of this entry »