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But when the statues come down, how might the atrocities themselves be publicly commemorated, rather than repressed?

But the impulse to commemorate rather than celebrate is a sign of how rigidly the Jamestown affair and its aftermath are now being seen.

It is our history, so we can't ignore it, but the government is commemorating rather than celebrating, and acknowledging and honouring for the first time the non-rebel dead, including civilians, police (mostly Irish Catholic) and British soldiers.

Some family members of those who died worry that it will merely commemorate architecture rather than the victims and heroes.

But is it possible that these impulses have just metastasized and that, given strength by events of the last decade, they prevent us from daring to commemorate and comprehend rather than simply remember?

The capitol was intended to be the most symbolically democratic of the public buildings: a place, Griffin explained, for popular reception and ceremony – "or for housing archives and commemorating Australian achievements rather than for deliberation or counsel... representing the sentimental and spiritual head, if not the actual working mechanism of federation".

"So the plant name may reflect some presumed magical qualities rather than commemorating an actual king.

It seems unjust that the title of the disgrace should commemorate the private citizen rather than the politician implicated, but that must be the price of bearing such a ferocious, unforgettable name.

Rather than commemorate a famous person who had stood there, or an event that had shaped history, the marker honored the role of dissent in the functioning of a "healthy democracy".

In our opinion, the festivities had the intention to entertain the inhabitants of Chapultenango, rather than commemorate the 1982 eruptions of El Chichόn.

Rather than commemorating the destruction of a people via a new construction, Hoheisel proposed instead to blow up the Brandenburg Gate (the symbol of Berlin).