Kingsley A. Rowe Brooklyn To the Sports Editor: I wonder if the Yankees will have the sense to make Derek Jeter's monument bigger than George Steinbrenner's monument.
Christian couple Laurie and Mike Nowland are on a mission to build a giant cross monument bigger than the Great Pyramids in the Nevada desert that will also serve as a tomb.
The modest house at 2300 still stands, a small clapboard monument to big dreams.
Six months after he was sworn in, he had the monument — a big, hulking thing, more than two and a half tons of granite — installed overnight.
They object to creating an entitlement program where none currently exists, because they say they fear it will grow into a money-gobbling monument to big government — socialism, even.
Two years later, the Toledo Blade published a front-page article about the photo-takers and people-watchers who gathered around the mall's marble fountain, "that gushing monument to big spending and the shopping spree".
Why do they make monuments so big?
With visionary gusto, Weinberg wrote that "the monuments of big science, the huge rockets, the high-energy accelerators, the high-flux research reactors... will be symbols of our time as surely as Notre Dame is a symbol of the Middle Ages".
Local tribes had petitioned for a monument much bigger than the one designated in 2016, but President Barack Obama opted not to include the uranium-rich area of Red Canyon just over the ridge, the site of the Daneros mine.
As memories fade, the monuments get bigger — and so do the lies.
To fund the building of monuments, each bigger than those of previous cities, they cleared forest from hillsides to increase the area they could cultivate.
