Though tilted slightly, it somehow survived, emerging from the fire and smoke of Sept. 11 -- inexplicably durable, still pointing to the heavens and now a fitting, realistic and moving monument to those who died there.
One warm windy autumn day, before the rain, as I was rambling around campus thinking about a class I had to teach that day, I came upon the terribly moving monument to the Six Million just outside the Temple off in a wooded corner, lovely in its solitude, quiet, and big lotus pool.
In his delicate and moving monument in the Cathedral of Lucca to the young and beautiful Ilaria del Caretto, who had died in childbirth, he included on the sarcophagus an encircling chorus of putti, the first time since antiquity that these winged cupids had been used on this scale.
The large black stone and bronze monument remains a moving icon of suffering and martyrdom.
George Washington took the oath of office there in 1789, so the monument is a moving and eloquent tribute to the young Republic, even though the building was sullied by politics in its own time.
It is a simple monument but also a moving one.
In a way, it reminds us of Asif Khan's Selfie Monument that included a moving facade.
He wrote scathingly about plans to build a major highway through the Khimki Forest, and of a decision to move a monument to servicemen killed in World War II.
Attendees will hear from speakers such as Judge Roy Moore, who was removed from the bench after refusing to move a monument to the Ten Commandments from a state judicial building.
