Boy, this one took off, hey? It all made me feel sad, angry, older, and distanced. More thought here than I've seen elsewhere, and of better quality.Leslie Fiedler said,"...to be an American (unlike being English or French or whatever) is precisely to imagine a destiny rather than to inherit one; since we have always been, insofar as we are Americans at all, inhabitants of myth rather than history..." (Greil Marcus quoting in Mystery Train).Memorials, then perhaps make mythic sense rather than historic. Pax.