But the majority of American memorials — for example, all those classical auditoriums, parks, band shells, boulevards, museums, and parkways dedicated to the dead of the First World War — are rather soft.
The local processes and committees could result in multiple memorials being created for the same community or event: the site of Verdun was commemorated by three different memorials, for example, while some British towns saw rival memorials created by competing groups in the community.
Groups representing the families of victims have expectations about a memorial, for example, while residents of Lower Manhattan want changes made in traffic patterns.
In the context of a memorial, for example, the 17-foot, two-ton crossbeam where Mass was held every day during the cleanup is a sacred relic, an icon that vibrates with emotional and ideological resonance.
The Perry memorial, for example, has demonstrations that draw fans of black powder guns and Dutch oven cooking, while at a memorial devoted to Coronado, near the Mexican border south of Tucson, hummingbirds and trails draw birders and hikers to 4,700 acres of pinyon and grasses now thick after the August rains, said Katy Hooper, a park ranger.
Island Records have not decided anything yet concerning any kind of recorded memorial (for example a "Best of" which could utilize the four recently recorded tracks) and, sure, it might be cited as a tasteless gesture – but Nick Drake's music should be heard by more people.
Look at the Vietnam memorial for example: Maya Lin's original design was perfect.
The Scottish National War Memorial, for example, a Scots baronial styled memorial hall complete with stained glass in Edinburgh Castle, attempts to blend in with the surrounding medieval fortress.
Others see the reactions primarily as conditioned responses triggered by preparation for a memorial, for example, or an awareness of the coming of the season of loss, producing a variety of psychophysiological reactions.
Thiepval Memorial, for example uses the classical themes of a victory arch and an abstract pattern of diminishing arches to produce what historian Jay Winter has termed "an embodiment of nothing".
The opening of the Menin Gate memorial, for example, inspired Will Longstaff's dream that led to the famous Menin Gate at Midnight painting, portraying the fallen dead rising and walking through the gateway, while the Cenotaph ceremonies were photographed in 1922, and believed by some to show the ghosts of the war dead.
