Long commemorated in Sulawesi, he was officially declared a National Hero of Indonesia in 2002.
The United States has long commemorated Pulaski's contributions to the American Revolutionary War, and already on October 29, 1779, the United States Congress passed a resolution that a monument should be dedicated to him, but the first monument to him was not built until 1854.
There he wrote his last work, The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898), a long poem commemorating the harsh rhythms of prison life.
Lesser known important holidays are Sukkot, a week long festival commemorating the fall harvest around Halloween, ends after eight days with another holiday, Shemini Atzeret.
It is a place where intimate relationships are formalized and honored, where long lives are commemorated.
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.
Kyoto held a year-long celebration commemorating the 1000th anniversary of Genji in 2008, with poetry competitions, visits to the Tale of Genji Museum in Uji and Ishiyama-dera (where a life size rendition of Murasaki at her desk was displayed), and women dressing in traditional 12-layered Heian court and ankle-length hair wigs.
That may seem like, well, overkill, but the Somme, like Gettysburg, Gallipoli and other battles stretching back to Thermopylae, will continue to be commemorated as long as fortitude under fire continues to be admired.
Tragically, at the current rate of loss of life there will be a terrifyingly long list to commemorate on the eve of Qatar in 2022.
The grandeur of the monument was acclaimed by veterans, who may well see its lavish appearance as some kind of belated compensation for a long delay in commemorating their sacrifice.
On a sunny late afternoon in February, the Judenplatz, an airy square surrounded by 17th-century buildings, was almost empty, except for the spectral white block -- 12 feet high and 33 feet long -- that commemorates the 65,000 Austrian Jews who were killed by the Nazis between 1939 and 1945, as the inscription on the front attests.
