Re: Thinking for ourselves: Remembering World War II

[Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1@xxxxxxx>]

> Charles Brown wrote:
>
> > Thinking for ourselves: Remembering World War II
> > Analysis by Shea Howell
> > Special to The Michigan Citizen
> >
> > http://www.michigancitizen.com/
> >
> > A new monument opens in Washington, D.C. this Memorial Day,
> > honoring the sacrifices of Americans during World War II. The
> > dedication of this memorial is an opportunity for all of us to
> > remember the lives lost and changed forever by war.
> >
> > It is also an opportunity to remember the questions that that war
> > brought to the generations that followed. In many ways it was the
> > probing of the World War II experience that compelled many of us to
> > resist the use of military power in Korea and Vietnam.
>
> A WW2 vet and peace activist clleague of mine went to the memorial
> on its opening day. He described it as a celebration of empire and
> military might. He said that it completely ignored the human cost of
> war and there is only indirect indication that men and women fought
> fascism and sacrificed their lives and health for it.
>
> His description of the memorial sounded as though tis creators
> wanted to build amonument to power rather than a just struggle
> against the fascists.
>
> Joel Wendland

I uploaded a new blog entry on the memorial:

Memorial Politics

The National World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C. is now open.
The construction of the monument was surrounded by many
controversies. For instance:

One of the two American companies selected . . . to build a World War
II memorial on the Mall is owned by a German construction company
that used concentration camp labor during World War II. . . .

The full posting at
<http://montages.blogspot.com/2004/05/memorial-politics.html>.
--
Yoshie

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