Trenton War Memorial, Memorial Drive.
One is a harrowing fiction echoing Japan's historical nightmares at Hiroshima and Nagasaki; the other is a somber document of an ongoing and very present horror in and around Fukushima, one whose third anniversary is being marked today in Japan with moments of silence and prayer, official memorials, and televised updates on the most current statistics and predictions.
"For example, was it better for him not to speak so that more Jews would not be killed or for him to speak?" Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem, updated its text on Pius and the Vatican in 2012 to reflect more recent research on the wartime Pope.
21, 2011 To the Editor: As a survivor of Birkenau and Auschwitz (Prisoner No. 82589), I was gratified to read Michael Kimmelman's article about the efforts by Marek Zajac and Piotr Cywinski to update the memorial there.
Update: A memorial service will be held for Prof. Joseph Copsey beginning at 10 a.m.
Update: A memorial service for the late Dr. James E. Bowman will take place at 10 a.m. on Thursday, Dec. 1, in Rockefeller Memorial Chapel, 5850 S. Woodlawn Ave.
Update: A memorial service for Joshua Casteel will be held at 5 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 9 on the third floor of Swift Hall.
Update: A memorial service will be held for Prof. Ted Cohen at 5 p.m. April 12 at the Quadrangle Club, 1155 E. 57th St. Ted Cohen, a philosopher whose agile intellect and wry humor made him a UChicago campus legend, died Friday after a brief hospitalization.
Update: The University memorial service in honor of Martin Riesebrodt will be held on Thursday, March 12, at 4 p.m. in Swift Hall.
This post has been updated with additional memorial events for McCain.
