In 1949, she was barred from performing at Constitution Hall in Washington by the DAR because she was black, but Eleanor Roosevelt arranged for her to sing in front of the Lincoln Memorial instead, in a landmark event with 75,000 in attendance hear her sing.
The local assembly was unable to agree on a single, shared war memorial: instead, rival Bosniak and Croat monuments sit within yards of each other near city hall, with a separate sculpture for fallen Serbs beside a nearby hotel.
Instead of getting back in the game, continuing a streak of bad decisions, Roger doesn't attend the memorial, instead opting to go home to his young bride.
And making "memorial" permanent, instead of an interim label of convenience, may intensify the discomfiting sense that the southern tip of Manhattan is turning into a necropolis.
Like Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Time Warner's architects, Lord Foster, Lord Rogers and Mr. Maki have sheathed their retail sections in glass, the difference being that shoppers will peer down into the memorial pits instead of down 59th Street.
So the association now encourages friends and families of the dearly departed to consider memorial donations instead of flowers.
The new Victorian Labor government of 1924, under George Prendergast, supported the Herald's view, and pushed for a memorial hospital instead of the Shrine.
But everyone just walked around and looked pensively at the makeshift memorials instead, as if visiting a museum of grief.
Giant banners on the field, decorated with white flowers, bore the logos of Chapecoense and Atlético Nacional, the Colombian team that held a memorial ceremony on Wednesday instead of hosting the cup final.
Instead of memorials, this relatively tame tornado left Mount Prospect with a little less shade and a new, common story to recount at block parties.
