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Memorial History

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Memorials can be considered to be modern fossils that can be viewed at any time, rather than just by an archeologist in a lab. How these memorials come into being is also very essential to maybe how we view them and think about them on a daily basis. Some questions that linger in the minds of people across the country are who/what do we choose to memorialize, what choices would we make today, and where is the memorial’s location and how it used. All these questions and the answers to them help to tell the history of memorials that have been set up all around the country. There are many factors to why we choose a specific memorial. Memorials come in all forms from simple and complex to virtual and real life. Some may be extravagant and

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