Nowadays, two modern stained-glass windows help light up the old church, honouring the 101st Airborne Division for liberating the hamlet, and specifically naming "les deux medics" [the two medics], as does a monument in the churchyard where fighting once raged.
The Hipster Lit section at Bookhampton brought these ideas flooding to mind, appearing as it does a monument to the ickier side of hipsterdom: not only does it contain all male and all white (save, if you prefer, Bolaño and Saramago) authors, it is, to state the very obvious, in the Hamptons.
In a country as large and plural as the United States, rarely does a monument, especially a national monument, garner unanimous approval and praise.
For him Tramstop had a personal meaning, referring as it does to a monument in his home town, Cleves, in north-western Germany.
When we look at the Parthenon today, we are looking at a building that began life much as One World Trade Center did — as a monument to a national cataclysm.
But cricket pavilions vary as much as cricket does, each a monument to the players and spectators who made the matches they hosted, from the humblest, friendliest of clubs up to the venues that provide the canvases for the grandest heroes of the game.
There may be a Monument Valley 2 in time but that's not going to happen immediately, says Gray. "We won't be doing a Monument Valley 2 unless it's actually Monument Valley 2 and not Monument Valley 1.5," he says.
In 2006 Cai did a rooftop installation, "Transparent Monument," at the Metropolitan Museum; in it, he erected a large sheet of glass, through which the skyline was clearly visible, and placed replicas of dead birds at its base.
King probably did not foresee a black president celebrating the 50th anniversary of his speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial, and surely did not foresee a monument to himself just a short walk away.
I do not need a monument.
The parks created by Moses on Long Island and throughout New York State do stand as a monument to his vision.
