Nearby, Civil War reminders abound.
Shemlan: A Deadly Tragedy is packed with adventure, action, nostalgia, and, for those who knew Lebanon during its 1975-1990 civil war, reminders of how the past comes back to haunt, or kill, survivors.
Sergeant Ollis's name was not mentioned in the memorial ceremonies that took place Wednesday morning in New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia, but as the families of those killed on Sept. 11 gathered, his death and those of the thousands of others during a decade of war were reminders that the costs of what happened 12 years ago were still being borne across the globe.
Experimental aircraft, including the sole remaining -- and supremely wicked looking -- XB-70 high-altitude bomber, and the Fairchild C-123K plane used to spray Agent Orange during the Vietnam War, are reminders that these airplanes are bookmarks in the pages of history.
The state-run China Daily newspaper wrote that "the recalcitrant attempts by Japanese politicians, including Abe, to rewrite history and their country's unseemly record in the second world war are reminders that Japan doesn't deserve being treated as a normal country".
Here the hand-to-hand wars are reminders of this picture's tacky genesis.
The moat – a trench transformed by the poppies into a bloody lake – is a potent re-imagining of the trenches of the first world war, a reminder of the mass reduction of young men to gore.
Those rumors of what might be about to happen were joined by stories on the region's deeply destabilizing history, with mentions for the Golden Horde, a fifteenth-century khanate, the multi-country nineteenth-century Crimean War (and unreassuring reminders that that war was the setting for "The Charge of the Light Brigade").
For Scowcroft, the second Gulf war is a reminder of the unwelcome consequences of radical intervention, especially when it is attempted without sufficient understanding of America's limitations or of the history of a region.
Seeing the show again on the very eve of the invasion of Iraq in March 2003, coupled with Fraser Grace's dazzling parable Gifts of War, was a reminder of how less can indeed be more.
"Choosing to follow or reject the multilateral path must not be a simple matter of political convenience," Annan said, and he invoked the example of the U.N.-mandated Gulf War as a reminder that "when states decide to use force to deal with broader threats to international peace and security, there is no substitute for the unique legitimacy provided by the United Nations".
