For John Prete, 72, a former production planner at Grumman who also helped with the restoration, the museum enshrined memories of a time that his grandchildren will never experience.
The problem of how — or whether — to enshrine memory is especially clear at ground zero, where after almost a decade the official memorial is nowhere near completed and the feelings of many New Yorkers are nowhere near resolved.
Some 15 years and several rolls of duct tape later, he finally let the old machine rest and enlisted his BlackBerry to enshrine memories.
He asks why those incidents have been enshrined in memory and the Up Stairs Lounge forgotten.
Williams, who built a shrine to Rose in his Key West house, enshrined her memory in many plays, perhaps most notably in the part of Laura in "The Glass Menagerie" (1945).
But if there is any room for entreaties of mine, if my prayers have reached your heart, then you, Piso, shall one day be chanted in polished verse, to be enshrined in memory as my Maecenas.
And Ms. Greer's contribution to the book serves to enshrine the memory of the man she loved.
The finale is a mystery in sound, which enshrines the memory of a summer walk that Ives took with his wife, Harmony, along the banks of the Housatonic River in the Berkshires.
Despite the only surviving eyewitnesses to these events being from the Indian side and the passage of time since the battle, many of the details given by the Indian participants were still controversial and not believed (Custer's widow Libbie, who had dedicated her life to enshrining the memory of her husband as a hero and who attacked anyone offering a different point of view, was still alive).
Writing under the influence of the German sociologist Maurice Halbwachs and other students of collective memory, Yerushalmi argued that medieval Jews enshrined their communal memories above all in liturgy and in ritual, which bore no connection to the study or recording of history as such.
