In the end, because ousting destructive governments is so traumatic, and so fateful, that evening 20 years ago deserves to be commemorated as a triumph for human dignity.
He deserves something to commemorate this beyond the "what if Kyrie Irving and Kevin Love were healthy" wishful thinking that will inevitably be attached via asterisk to all of the accounts of the 2015 finals.
In the city's main square, the government would erect a giant statue of Alexander the Great.Supporters of the plans said that, after decades of stagnation, Skopje would at last get the regeneration it deserves, its heroes commemorated in marble and bronze.
Florian Schweizer, who is both director of Dickens 2012, and of the Charles Dickens Museum, in Doughty Street, London, said: "Charles Dickens deserves to be commemorated as one of the greatest storytellers, entertainers and philanthropists in history, and that is precisely what we will do in 2012.
"The memory of Robert Corfield deserves to be commemorated on the nation's official Debt of Honour," said Mr John, who is also an author from the West Wales War Memorial Project.
When Khaled al-Asaad, a scholar who for 40 years had supervised and cared for Palmyra, refused to flee the descent of Isis upon the ruins, he was making a statement that deserves long to be commemorated: that the fragile and romantic remains of the ancient city embody an ideal worth dying for.
Those who died in the line of duty in unjustified wars deserve to be commemorated too.
Mayor Jack Dunrey told local radio station KXRO that Nirvana deserve to be commemorated.
According to Holloway, several of the squad deserve to be commemorated with the kind of statue that the club unveiled to honour Jimmy Armfield this year.
Such humanist funerals are based on the belief that all human beings deserve to be commemorated with dignity after their death, and so are equal in some very important ways.
