"I just tried to do my best, to play for Madrid, to score goals, but I didn't commemorate because I think it's not fair, not respect if I commemorate".
"We don't know what to commemorate because we've never faced up to the implications of what the thing was really about," said Andrew Young, a veteran of the civil rights movement and former mayor of Atlanta.
He said Sept. 23, 1775, was well worth commemorating because "it reminds us that North Hempstead has traditionally been comprised of people who have achieved success but not been afraid to challenge authority.
I thank them for having erected here in so well a chosen site a statue which, not only because of the man it commemorates, but because of its intrinsic worth, adds to the nobility and beauty of the capital city of the country".
But they continued to insist they were opposed to aspects of the commission plan, like staging the first debate in Boston, near the John F. Kennedy Library, because it commemorated a Democrat.
The "Concord Hymn" became important because it commemorated the beginning of the American Revolution, and that for much of the 19th century it was a means by which Americans learned about the Revolution, helping to forge the identity of the nation.
It was a year of celebration in much of Africa, both because 17 countries across the continent commemorated their 50th anniversary of independence and because South Africa hosted the association football (soccer) World Cup the first African country to do so.
But because the designs commemorated so many different battles and geopolitical shifts, she said, "It's not a massive overlap".
Two warriors are commemorated in the same tomb because lovers fighting side by side were, Greeks believed, the bravest soldiers of all.
Totem poles were not objects of religious worship, but Tlingits considered them sacred, because they believed that everything in nature had a spirit, and because the poles commemorated significant people and events.
