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Memorials Up until this week, I had never really thought much of memorials. I used to think that they were just carved rocks that paid tribute to an event or person. After doing all the assignments this week I realized how much thought and effort go into monuments and how impactful they can be on people’s lives. Take the Vietnam memorial for an example. This memorial cost 8 million dollars and took three and a half years to be completed. Each year nearly 5 million people visit this memorial. The location, size, and even the way this memorial was built symbolize something. The memorial was built in between the Lincoln memorial and the Washington monument to represent the past and future. The memorial was “cut into the earth” to show that this unnatural war left a cut in everybody, but as time passes cuts heal. Every minute detail of the memorial was well thought out, in the hope that the men that died in Vietnam will be eternally remembered. However, not all memorials are...