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Struggling with terror: the Pentagon memorial

Struggling with terror: the Pentagon memorial victoria carchidi we should forget the names Similarly, the Pentagon memorial occupies a 1.93-acre site filled with what, to we should bury the date quote Witold Rybczynski, KBAS ‘refer[s] to as ‘‘memorial units’’ but which the dead should bury the dead — condolences 4 everyone calls ‘‘benches’’’ and maple trees. Christopher Okigbo, ‘Elegy for Slit-drum’ In assessing the memorial, one must first consider how 9/11 was a day ‘like no other’. After all, death happens every day. Traffic accidents, disease, and suicide claim untold numbers of lives. Even terrorist-caused deaths occur with distres- Why remember? sing frequency. More US soldiers have died in Iraq than died in all the attacks of 9/11. This ubiquity of death raises the question of how to remember the 184 On 11 September 2001, American Airlines Flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon, lives that ended at the Pentagon that day, and what their memorial can say about killing all 59 passengers and crew, and 125 people working in the Pentagon. that particular event. Americans and many of other nationalities know how traumatic that day, now One point of a memorial is to attest to the grief felt by the family and friends of known http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes Taylor & Francis

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victoria carchidi we should forget the names Similarly, the Pentagon memorial occupies a 1.93-acre site filled with what, to we should bury the date quote Witold Rybczynski, KBAS ‘refer[s] to as ‘‘memorial units’’ but which the dead should bury the dead — condolences 4 everyone calls ‘‘benches’’’ and maple trees. Christopher Okigbo, ‘Elegy for Slit-drum’ In assessing the memorial, one must first consider how 9/11 was a day ‘like no other’. After all, death happens every day. Traffic accidents, disease, and suicide claim untold numbers of lives. Even terrorist-caused deaths occur with distres- Why remember? sing frequency. More US soldiers have died in Iraq than died in all the attacks of 9/11. This ubiquity of death raises the question of how to remember the 184 On 11 September 2001, American Airlines Flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon, lives that ended at the Pentagon that day, and what their memorial can say about killing all 59 passengers and crew, and 125 people working in the Pentagon. that particular event. Americans and many of other nationalities know how traumatic that day, now One point of a memorial is to attest to the grief felt by the family and friends of known

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Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes – Taylor & Francis

Published: Aug 25, 2010

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