Sentence examples for communal memorial from inspiring English sources

At a time when the appetite for patriotic gestures seems to know no limit, few objects are more indelible than an impromptu, communal memorial cloth.

The term also encompasses cenotaphs ("empty tombs"), tomb-like monuments which do not contain human remains; and communal memorials to the dead (such as war memorials), which may or may not contain human remains.

Trenton War Memorial, Memorial Drive.

Funerals and memorials are a communal affair in the Ghanaian community.

communal living; communalism".  .

Memorial gifts can be sent to: The Jewish Communal Fund c/o The Lillian & Nathan Charendoff Philanthropic Fund, 575 Madison Avenue, Suite 703, New York, NY 10022.

Officials in charge of these traffic arteries agree that the number of such memorials has soared in recent years, a phenomenon generally attributed to the myriad ways in which grieving has become an evermore public process -- and even, as at the Vietnam War Memorial or the huge impromptu shrine at Columbine High School, a communal one.

After all, these 9/11 memorials are both personal and public, individual and communal.

For, no matter how much we immerse ourselves in communal grieving, we all carry within ourselves our own private memorials of loss and an increasing fear of future ones.

"And with Memorial Ground we have an event with both personal and communal injuries attached to it.

Be they in hallways, or forgotten on stop signs, the memorials make no public statement either, in part because no communal need for change arises from these deaths.