Having said that, it was reading Memorial alongside The Iliad (in Robert Fagles's translation) that made me feel the full force of Oswald's achievement.
Honoring them, and journalists of wars past, the BBC has commissioned a sculpture and recorded the radio host Harriet Cass reading "Memorial," by the poet and war correspondent James Fenton, which includes these lines: Most died by mischance.
A memorial plaque on south side of the large granite basin reads "Depew Memorial Fountain.
It's odd to read a memorial to a period that ended so recently.
When Alive, He Lived, reads the memorial to FORBES late editor-in-chief, Malcolm Forbes, on a palm-shaded lawn overlooking his beloved, green-as-money Laucala Island, a 3,000-acre 3,000-acred Valhalla in the eastern Fijian islands.
Hangar, now the Noble County sheriff, read the memorial's mission statement at the start of the service.
Passing by a bright yellow, but badly damaged structure that read "Pedro E. Candido Memorial Library", we saw four teenagers sitting on a stone wall, horsing around, laughing.
On any other island, she would have stood out, but she seemed normal in the house, where Daniel wore only underwear and there was a shelf full of sculpted penises and a plaque that read "Liza Memorial Fridge".
The church continued to hold an annual memorial, reading the names of the crewmen and ringing the church bell, until 2006 when the church broadened its memorial ceremony to commemorate all lives lost on the Great Lakes.
The police chief, Michael Fisher, said someone had apparently used a roller to spread black paint over a message in the memorial that reads, "In Memory of 2,867 U.S. Troops Killed in Iraq".
CHIMING IN Bruce Hasson, a Bay Area sculptor, conceived of the memorial after reading about the crime in a newspaper.
