■ Would the creators of all the patriotic-seeming ads — festooned with flags and wrapped in red, white and blue bunting — to promote Memorial Day deals, sales, bargains and discounts, which never addressed the actual meaning of the holiday, tell a skeptical reporter, "You ask a lot of questions for someone from Brooklyn"?
"There are not many people left who remember the Gulag period, but there are plenty of people who remember the 1970s, and remember that things were a lot better than they are now," says Sergei Raizman, head of Magadan Memorial, which promotes memory of the Gulag.
Former President George W. Bush made a rare return to Washington on Tuesday to promote international dissidents, a memorial to Sept. 11 heroes and, as it happened, Mitt Romney.
One of the most moving responses to Aaron's death has been the community's response in support of his partner Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman. Organizers and friends have fundraised so that Taren will be supported and able to take time to travel for Aaron's memorials, to promote causes in his name, and to hopefully take some time for herself and her own healing.
"There is no more fitting way to remember them than by a day of service to this great country symbolized by the flag," said Mr. Schumer, a New York Democrat who has been active in promoting Sept. 11 memorial legislation.
Mr. Radley, after landing on the escarpment, said he was aware of the irony of relying on military force in a nation still at war to get to a place where he could have a memorial service to promote peaceful ideals.
The campaign, which seeks to promote visits and donations to the memorial, is to be introduced on Wednesday morning at a news conference.
All proceeds will go to Mooch's memorial fund that helps to promote soccer in major metropolitan areas.
Local Fascist organisations made extensive use of the war memorials and associated ceremonies to promote loyalty both to Italy, and to the revolution.
The odd-bedfellows tandem of George W. Bush and Bill Clinton got together again Tuesday night to promote their latest shared post-presidential cause, a memorial to the heroes of United Flight 93.
In Britain and Australia, early memorials were closely linked to the need to promote military recruitment and the state had an ambivalent attitude towards the informal memorials that emerged during the conflict.
