National Memorial to the Women Who Worked on the Home Front,
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The story:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/01/16/raya-kenney-women-memorial-dc/This is about how, as a fifth grader, a student Raya Kennedy conceived the idea of a monument to honor the women who worked on the home front during WW II (i.e., women who answered the call to pick up the jobs that men used to do after the men went to fight WW II; think "Rosie the Riveter"). Now the former student is twenty years old and Congress passed the omnibus legislation that includes approving her proposed monument.
There is a picture embedded in the article that shows a 14 year old Kenneth with a model for the monument.
The foundation:
https://wwiiwomenmemorial.org/Yes, there is a "DONATE" button at the foundation website
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The story:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/01/16/raya-kenney-women-memorial-dc/This is about how, as a fifth grader, a student Raya Kennedy conceived the idea of a monument to honor the women who worked on the home front during WW II (i.e., women who answered the call to pick up the jobs that men used to do after the men went to fight WW II; think "Rosie the Riveter"). Now the former student is twenty years old and Congress passed the omnibus legislation that includes approving her proposed monument.
There is a picture embedded in the article that shows a 14 year old Kenneth with a model for the monument.
The foundation:
https://wwiiwomenmemorial.org/Yes, there is a "DONATE" button at the foundation website
if you feel like donating.Looks like a cemetary… not heroic, not civic, no sense of tradition or narrative, no place to gather and remember.
Sad.
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Looks like a cemetary… not heroic, not civic, no sense of tradition or narrative, no place to gather and remember.
Sad.
@Ivorythumper said in National Memorial to the Women Who Worked on the Home Front,:
Looks like a cemetary
Or a bunch of dominoes waiting to be tipped over.
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@Copper said in National Memorial to the Women Who Worked on the Home Front,:
Viet Nam memorial
It even has the V
When the Viet Nam memorial was first described I was skeptical. When I saw pictures, once again, I was skeptical.
When I was in DC, D4 and I visited it. I found it oddly, disturbingly, and very profoundly, moving. Unlike many such memorials and monuments which glorify things, this was a quiet and respectful tribute.
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What is seen there, isn't the same for everyone.
A lot of people really hated it.
My boss at the time hated it, because he believed that Viet Nam vets hated it. So he funded the addition of the statue of the 3 soldiers and a large flagpole. It wasn't that simple, there were a lot of fights over that design.
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@Copper said in National Memorial to the Women Who Worked on the Home Front,:
Viet Nam memorial
It even has the V
Maya Lin’s design was intentionally an inverted V for defeat, and a black scar on the earth, and creates a void rather than a sense of presence.
It is a poetic place of healing — the mirror smooth black granite allows the families, friends, and surviving comrades to see themselves in the names of the fallen — and is quite a moving piece of architecture appropriate for the complex emotions of the war in Vietnam.
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Looks like a cemetary… not heroic, not civic, no sense of tradition or narrative, no place to gather and remember.
Sad.
@Ivorythumper said in National Memorial to the Women Who Worked on the Home Front,:
Looks like a cemetary… not heroic, not civic, no sense of tradition or narrative, no place to gather and remember.
Sad.
It might be worse than that...
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@Copper said in National Memorial to the Women Who Worked on the Home Front,:
Viet Nam memorial
It even has the V
Maya Lin’s design was intentionally an inverted V for defeat, and a black scar on the earth, and creates a void rather than a sense of presence.
It is a poetic place of healing — the mirror smooth black granite allows the families, friends, and surviving comrades to see themselves in the names of the fallen — and is quite a moving piece of architecture appropriate for the complex emotions of the war in Vietnam.
@Ivorythumper said in National Memorial to the Women Who Worked on the Home Front,:
@Copper said in National Memorial to the Women Who Worked on the Home Front,:
Viet Nam memorial
It even has the V
Maya Lin’s design was intentionally an inverted V for defeat, and a black scar on the earth, and creates a void rather than a sense of presence.
It is a poetic place of healing — the mirror smooth black granite allows the families, friends, and surviving comrades to see themselves in the names of the fallen — and is quite a moving piece of architecture appropriate for the complex emotions of the war in Vietnam.
That's my view on it. I personally find the finish on the granite the most meaningful feature of the design.
