The immortality promised in Euripides' tragedy is not bliss with the gods, but a future commemoration through a "hero cult," the cult of the dead.
So in five years, and five years after that, look for a commemoration of the Twitter revolution, hosted by Ashton Kutcher, and then, at some point farther (I'm hoping really, really far) in the future, a commemoration of the anniversary of Kutcher's birth.
Mayan inscriptions occasionally mention predicted future events or commemorations that would occur on dates far beyond the completion of the 13th b'ak'tun.
The campaign is aimed at assuring that mention of Jewish refugees is included in future General Assembly and Human Rights Council resolutions and commemorations.
It's not as though this court promulgated a rule for the future about Dec. 7; commemoration of Pearl Harbor, we say, Dec. 7 is the day.
Eleven years later, as Hariri's Future Movement holds its annual commemoration of the assassination, we should remember that the violence in Lebanon did not start or end on the 14th of February.
"A 17-year-old young man who gives his life for France, it's an example not of the past but of the future," Mr. Sarkozy said at the commemoration.
During the ceremony a girl, symbolising the passing on of remembrance for future generations, released a white balloon as a sign of peace and reconciliation, along with thousands of other balloons in the colours of the flags of other countries invited to the commemoration.
It made the notion of modern design accessible to many people and insured that in the future tragic events would be marked as commemorations of individuals, not as collective disasters.
Politicians use commemoration to justify wars, past and future.
