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From: Stephen Lauf
To: design-l@lists.psu.edu
Subject: US Iraqi War Memorial
Date: 2004.05.04 10:18

I was impressed by the Iraqi War Memorial televised by ABC's Nightline last Friday night. I listened to all of the fallen soldier's names, and saw about half their pictures. Besides begin saddened for the obvious reasons, it was also sad to see how alive all the faces on the TV screen looked.

As a designed memorial, it worked. There are lessons to be learned here for future architects, not least of which is that architects are not necessarily the designers of memorials anymore.

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