Since the uprising began 19 months ago, he has printed posters commemorating about 300 people.
The National Police Memorial is a memorial in central London, commemorating about 4000 police officers killed in the course of their duties in the United Kingdom.
Happy Australia Day, the day we commemorate everything about Australia that's been deemed good (mateship, sport, Aussie ingenuity) and not culturally awkward (genocide, Taylor Swift) by doing what we do best: drinking.
She was often written about and commemorated over the years.
Yet the largest group of victims of the railway construction, an estimated 70,000 Asian laborers, is barely commemorated here in Kanchanaburi, about 60 miles northwest of Bangkok.
The sesquicentennial of the Civil War that is about to be commemorated means that it has been nearly 150 years since American slavery was brought to an end.
But the town's celebrations are likely to be muted; some locals still think of the singer as a subversive, better forgotten than commemorated.Okemah has no museum about Guthrie; its biggest concession to him is a sign painted on a water-tower announcing the town as "The Home of Woody Guthrie".
At one level, simply by noticing what events and people a community or nation has commemorated we can learn something about those aspects of the past.
It was wrong in 2003, when he railed against both ideas in his newspaper column; and it is now, when the 10th anniversary of 9/11 is about to be commemorated exploited in a solemn fit of national mourning.
I've been thinking about this journey, commemorated now by the counting of the omer, the seven weeks between Passover and Shavuot, and I've been reflecting on that moment when our anxious ancestors waited at Sinai to receive the Torah.
