They used to call it the "slash of shame," objecting
hugely to the fact that the memorial goes down
beneath the level of the surrounding ground and
does not soar up toward the heavens. Lack of
statuary too.
Hal
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and that is poetry."
--John Cage
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On Jul 29, 2007, at 6:07 PM, Mark Weiss wrote:
> If memory serves, the right wing and a lot of other people
> protested the war memorial not because of the names but because it
> lacked the traditional statuary--the hard-right types thought its
> understatement was an expression of shame, and the rest that a sort
> of decorum had been violated, although the names have been
> enormously successful as a sight for the expression of personal and
> generational griefs.
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