Along those lines, Footnote.com, acquired by Ancestry.com last year, introduced the I Remember Facebook application for its registered users in 2009 to "preserve, honor and share the memories of anyone who influenced your life," including family, friends, teachers, coaches, and fallen soldiers.
The event honored the writers with performances by Rosanne Cash, Jon Bon Jovi, Martina McBride, Miguel and others, each working to further the hall's stated goal to "preserve, honor and celebrate the legacy of the great songwriters whose work has enriched the world's culture".
When a cabinet minister under investigation for financial impropriety killed himself, in 2007, the governor of Tokyo called him a true samurai for preserving his honor.
Graham, who said that he could easily see an opponent turning one of his votes into a thirty-second attack ad next year, described the process in terms of preserving his honor.
According to Navi Pillay, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, there are 5,000 instances annually when women and girls are shot, stoned, burned, buried alive, strangled, smothered and knifed to death by fathers, brothers, sons, uncles, even mothers in the name of preserving family "honor".
Those who do acknowledge such questions, he appears to believe, are poseurs, acting out some highfalutin and affected pretense based on -- there is a barely suppressed sneer here -- "preserving your honor".
The Board and staff mourn the passing of our colleague and friend whose scholarship made such a significant contribution to preserving and honoring the work of our founder, Cornell Capa, his brother Robert Capa, and many others.
It was all about preserving and honoring the moment -- being in that moment.
Essentially, we become our own documentarians and archivists in order to impose meaning on daily life, to show that we are honoring moments with the seriousness we are told they are supposed to possess, and to preserve that honor for posterity.
