For now, and for the foreseeable future, these weeks of late summer will be a season of memorial in America – a time when the nation stops to reflect on the events of Sept. 11, 2001, and how they changed us.
As we commemorate the third anniversary, however, it’s worth a quick pause to reflect on the many non-Sept. 11 memorials that dot the American landscape – and their online equivalents.
www.wwiimemorial.com
The World War II Memorial in Washington offers veterans of that conflict a desktop access point to the monument itself and to a registry and “reunion messaging center” designed to reunite vets who have lost touch.
www.nps.gov/vive/home.htm
Similarly, but for a different generation’s conflict, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial – known commonly as The Wall – offers a variety of sites, including the official one.
thewall-usa.com
More extensive is a private site run by veterans of the 4th Battalion 9th Infantry Regiment. It includes a photo gallery and a literary section brimming with musings and sometimes harrowing poems.
www.nps.gov/nama/monuments/monument.htm
An overview of many of Washington’s memorials is available at a National Parks Service site that also outlines hours of operation. Included are the Korean War Veterans Memorial, the Washington Monument, the Thomas Jefferson Memorial and the Lincoln Memorial.
www.afroamcivilwar.org
Civil War memorials are plentiful, and a quick Google search will turn up dozens online. Among the standouts is the site for the African American Civil War Memorial, which includes old prints and photographs.
catinthehat.org/memorial.htm
Memorials outside military and political realms include the Dr. Seuss National Memorial in Springfield, Mass. This site offers kids a chance to find out more about Theodor Geisel, the late creator of children’s favorites from “McElligot’s Pool” to “One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish.”
www.crazyhorse.org
There’s a link to the incredible mountain-carved memorial in South Dakota honoring the Sioux warrior, Crazy Horse.
www.arlingtoncemetery.org/visitor_information/JFK.html
Arlington National Cemetery’s John F. Kennedy Memorial site includes an essay about how the gravesite was created.
www.usfa.fema.gov/inside-usfa/ffmem/ffmem.shtm
The National Fallen Firefighters’ Memorial includes a database of firemen and women who have perished in the line of duty – among them, of course, those who died in the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
Ted Anthony, Associated Press
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