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 »
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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 »