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Why Don’t We Build Statues for Our War Heroes Anymore?
Memory Aids
War memorial statues and monuments proliferated after the Civil War and World War I, but except after 9/11, the practice is in decline. What does this say about us?
G. Kurt Piehler
Published
May 24 2015
12:01AM EDT
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