Sentence examples for tangible memorial from inspiring English sources

I have learned that for some families it is important to have a tangible memorial of their child.

When the German physical chemist Walther Nernst visited Yale in 1906 to give the Silliman lecture, he was surprised to find no tangible memorial for Gibbs.

Commendable as the Digital Monument is, survivors of the Holocaust and descendants of those who were so dastardly murdered need a more tangible memorial to reflect, honor, remember -- and for all of us to swear "Never Again".

But this week, the family righted a wrong as they laid a marker in front of the former Cohn home in Frankfurt – a tangible memorial – reminding the world that Karolina existed, that she mattered, that she was loved.

There are several such "tangible" memorials in Europe that carry the names of Jewish Holocaust victims.

Trenton War Memorial, Memorial Drive.

She hopes the memorial will be something tangible that might help prevent another such attack.

While the ephemeral presence of the deceased on the memorial site may be tangible to some, the dead will soon return to this site in the physical form of bone fragments and unidentifiable remains.

• The Shanksville runners have a tangible cause — to raise money to complete the memorial in western Pennsylvania where the plane that contained their loved ones broke into smithereens.

First, they would set aside a significant part of the area as sacred ground and provide a way to incorporate some tangible reminder of the towers themselves into the memorial design.

As the blur of the funeral and the early months passed, she felt a pressing need to create something tangible, beautiful and permanent for her stepdaughter – a memorial to mark her grave in Norfolk that would truly say something about her. "I wanted the stone to get it right, to celebrate the extraordinary person she was.