Yet many at those memorials seemed to keep their sadness locked within them, as if contemplating what Wordsworth called "thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears," more comfortable with a reserve that once fed the stereotypes of distinction between northerners and their more demonstrative compatriots from the south.
As with the Holocaust Memorial, she wanted to keep her distance from the brouhaha.
In New York City, the Greater Astoria Historical Society, in Queens, will display a quirky trove of memorabilia contributed in 2010 by a Queens man, Joseph Colletti, collected as part of the quaint memorial he used to keep at his town house nearby in Long Island City.
Like libraries across the country, Arlington Heights Memorial had strived to keep pace with the changing times, ensuring its relevance in the digital age by becoming something of an indoor town square, and emphasizing that its money-saving services catered to the community's needs.
The memorial, Mr. Clinton said, was meant to "keep the memory of the greatest generation warm in the hearts of every new generation of Americans".
But the lobbying also comes barely a month after officials overseeing the memorial pledged to try to keep the process clear of the political pressures that shaped the selection of the Libeskind site design.
The Park Service rejected an offer from the Republican National Committee on Wednesday to pay to keep the memorial open.
When UMass and Memorial joined, each center wanted to keep its own computer system and way of delivering care.
Shashi Naidoo, a friend of Steenkamp, said: "If you wanted to keep a memorial service private, you would not put out a press release.
As workmen at the FNB stadium in Soweto continued erecting a stage and bulletproof glass to protect the VIPs attending the memorial event, government officials continued to keep tally of the number of confirmations.
