The day after the launch, Park and the Human Rights Foundation held a chaotic press conference in front of Seoul's War Memorial of Korea, where it was announced that, unbeknownst to those at Monday's launch, the balloons were only ferrying propaganda leaflets and American money into North Korea.
Along a metal guardrail on Fountain Avenue in Brooklyn, there is an exception: an aging memorial of teddy bears where the police discovered the body of Imette St. Guillen, the John Jay College graduate student murdered in February 2006.
Marlin Fitzwater, who was White House press secretary to President Bush's father, recalled that the elder Mr. Bush "went to a number of memorial ceremonies" where he met with families of troops killed in action in the Persian Gulf war of 1991.
"I thought about that steel and the wreckage, and I thought about marrying that to the bells, to form some sort of memorial where people could come for peace and healing," he said.
In Boston, the families of employees of American Airlines attended a memorial at Logan Airport, where the flights of two hijacked airliners began.
A memorial near where he died has become a place of pilgrimage for many cyclists.
The No. 7 that Paul Newman wore as Reg Dunlop in "Slap Shot" is going to the rafters of the Syracuse War Memorial arena, where part of the movie was filmed.
Lilies and dahlias were being hastily arranged at the gates of the memorial to Mohandas Gandhi, where Mr. Clinton will pay homage.
CNN and TV One's "Washington Watch" will both offer live coverage of the dedication of the Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial in Washington, where Mr. Obama will speak on Sunday.
For every donation of $10, a candle will be lit in the donor's name and placed in remembrance at mass graves on the grounds of the Kigali Memorial Centre, where 250,000 victims of the genocide lie buried.
Clusters of old incense sticks sprout from the ground in front of a memorial plaque where someone, not too long ago, wrote in blue marker pen the words: "With respect".
