Show The Herald Journal Logan Utah Friday November fflnfi)D’Oa)0s igOaGiMFDZOlM The Christian Science Monitor For most of America's history tragic death was something the nation hastened to forget No memorials to vie- tims went up on the sites of some of America's worst disasters — the 1903 Iroquois Theater Fire the 1929 St Valentine's Day Massacre the 1980s' serial killings of Jeffrey Duhincr in his Milwaukee home The reason for erasure say cultural observers was always the same: shame For the past decade however Americans have been demonstrating a new sensibili'' ty: to set apart forever the sites where innocent people met' a violent end First at Oklahoma City then at Columbine High School' and now at ground zero memorials naming each fallen victim are going up on sites where the deaths occurred And any day now the Lower Manhattan Development Corp is expected to unveil the win- ning Sept 1 memorial design with a promise to families ' who last loved ones to “never major cultural trends of our time” says Edward Linenlhal accoiiiplislimcnt a professor of religion and mass giuvcs pnuL to Ilk- Co il Wai when Aiiiciici Iviamc the vvoild's liisi coiiiiuv to hegui buiy mg soldicis individually bill even llicu aiul public memimals were prescivcd only w uli the names ol cclcbialed lenders on lhe markers All dial changed liovveiei with Ihe bombing i ( )kla: ' homu City's Allied P Mmtnfi Federal Building aecorvling to Lmeudial Since then Aiyieiieans havylvgit determined to visoiialic monuments such as the Viet num Memorial wiili vvicalhs i ' ' photos aiid flags' all o( ' hi: which vveiv’uiieVj'ecled: that violence has not ' ' ' : - Glamorizing death? But cultural scholars caution Americans not to endow every site of mass death with the status of “sacred” The danger lies in accidentally encouraging a culture that glamorizes death and violence ' through music film and other ' media says James Young : author of“At Memory’s Edge: After linages of the Holo- caust” and a juror iii the ground zero design contest “If a memorial is done ' without it very explicit ratio? hale then we risk blurring the culture of death with the need to remember" says Mr Young department chair of Judaic and Near Eastern stud- - " begin--ning- - - ' death as the defining event of a life' I worry that venerating the site of death reduces the richness of a person's life” s Since its Colonial America has purpose? fully buried its dead individually in cemeteries understood to be hallowed ground The sacred spot therefore has'not traditionally been the site of death but the site of burial where individi aU receive their own space ' ' ’and headstone Death sites could be returned to former use or new use without fear of forgetting the deceased i because ii memorialsite hadbeen established at the ceme- -' teiy More arid hiore however ' Americans seem determined to commemorate both the' individual life and the tragic " pre- - vailed It's ii trend Americans ' are appropriating to some degree from European tnidi- - ' tions And it's controversial memorial scholars say because such sites also risk' glamorizing mass killing and making death the defining moment Of life ' '' ‘This is one of the major iAvST dkfj retail space when: those towers once soared" (But fami- - ' lies are still fighting transportation plans that they say will desecrate the siie) The ground zero plan is ' confirming on a grand scale scholars what have identified as an important cultural shift ' toward a new type of public vvcic Rank and biuicd in - batllc-gmuiui- iesat the University of Massa--' chusetts “We have to be 2 careful not to venerate dr Tetishize the site to let it : speak for itself suggesting - death Roadside memorials lor saiiil'spietv and suffering- had people killed in car accidents ineanmg W ith lodiiv victims for instance have become far of violcnoc-lhpurpose more common over (he past to he similar: to apK‘ars ' 20 years says Elizabeth assure the living that life is Pritchard a religion professor not lost in vain ' at Bowdoin College Photos “At 'ground zero oEai ' ' Columbine there Ya need lor and memorabilia keep the memory of the deceased ali ve ' resolution because deaths 'of while the decision to place the young cannot be ' : site the at death expiajncd" say s Simon Bronkeep objects ner pixlesstir of:Ainerican the tragedy from being forgot? ' s in-lli- ' ever build commercial or soldicis lie I - 1 12003 — A9 GOesA? American culture and a memorial expert at the Uni- ' versity of Wisconsin at Oshkosh “It's a way of protesting the anonymity of mass death in our time With these memorials we're saying ’We don’t know how to prevent this but we’re going to make sure these dead are not forgotten' “ To make such a statement Americans are parting with a ' certain measure of practicality that has long been a hallmark of their mobile rapidly changing culture Valuable land as ' ' much as lour acres in down- ! v i iJ r f ill i I town Manhattan is being deemed “sacred" in the classi- -' : cal sense of “set apart” from the routine activities of work What makes it sacred? ask the memorial planners The loss of life? The possible presence of human remains? A horrific act of war? Or the" future establishment of a memorial ' ' AP photo with more than 27(H) names Memorial Cloud" of The Baurmann Gisela Sawad Brooks CoerSineier Jonas and by “Passages Light: on it? shown in this drawing released in New York on Wednesday is one of the eight finalists for a World Trade Center memorial ' ' remembering Tragic death sites it seems are becoming permanent shrines to the lost individuals in order to prove D51?© ©O' 21 ’say-s- : ' Avvai'e oj a Cullmal shill sehrdaK ai'e asking die - lial question: Why iio’wVha( makes siirviviiis efave pcima ' nenl' maikeis on 'tiiigicidcalh sites in '(M)t v'speeialjx when suiidai sues couldn't last enough in loot To be suie some say' 'activists have learned to iisc memorials io adv ance it cause political or oihefvvisc' vv Inch ' might turf (ally explain die surge in' popuiarliv But oilieis ' detect a deevr souice in mounting anxieties dial civ 'out ior assiuance yv hcncvci massive violent death sjnkes innocent people "! dunk there is aii anxiety that violence vrv asiye” LincnlliulYis f it touches tlu:liiosininocvnl ones then it toia jies aiiy one ' i'' ! -' ' It’s scary'-- v "Ve don't want to Ik iiV vaindhii'feai isdiai n all ' studies at Pennsylvania State The practice expands pii:a University' in Harrisburg'' "What's new is that mdivperv oi dialChristian tradition in Europe: going lobe- paVed ' iii our mobile so'cieu :?v g pic now feehhey' hav c a right preserving death sites of inaiS ' ' tiHc niight K‘disjviCiblcv' jyrs say Professors Young and lii that v Bronner says: llinenthal Both Eastern remembrance ' xv liere public-' to forever Of course scHtin'g aside " Orthodox and Roman- 'places arc' ' ' honiir ordinary y (etnps of death sites’ as "sacral" and Catholics have maintained ' death sites of people w ho ' tragedy: inaiking them with sorsdirii ' Half a eenfury agd Mr livedand defendedtheir faith mcmcntrrsdo httlc to iemov c Brimner ay s public niCmori? the threat oi violent or unto death With iftartyrs the ' death site is enshrinof to als Were reserved tor jegreat' ' henHis iif militiuy ir iliticU assure the living that the See M E U ) R on A 11) ? ten: ici ’ - set-asid- i tl s - iT'"- f c s 4 ' - ' - '' ' ’y rrvjv-- 'w': ' v ' v:- : v---- Ax?: : - i 1 - flB3Dnn3 VQ!Hl 01939 039 GR3HBB OP 2004 C Lmn vompfa A0 399 for quallfM buywi $199dueatlMittninf HANSEN MOTOR COMPANY BRIGHAM CITY 435 723 5255 : bAPRr l)llall o vin UUU t V Bonus Cash fiM- on 2004 Escalade EXT - t!i LOGAN FREEWAY CADILLAC OGDEN HARMON'S CADILLAC LAYTON 801 544 3445 435 752 6801 801 621 1100 801 373 3031 YOUNG CADILLAC fi£IK99l ciSRGP C5XSS C9I LESSEES N0fl-C- £l (aftar Cadillac Conqunt OffaT) No aacurity dapoalt raquiradL i Tax tit la licanae daaiartaaaaxtra GM AXTELL-TAYLO- R : provo co “ e fiiaaiQn nizm JERRY SEINER CADILLAC ' SALT LAKE CITY 801 972 8411 Email band on local lunrayi Each daalar Mb hi own prica Your paymort may my Payments are for a specially equipped 2004 CTS with an MSRP of $32535 a capitalized cost (including any applicable cap cost reduction) of $28183 and a residual value of $17244 36 monthly payments total $14364 Option to purchase at lease end for an amount to be determined at lease signing GMAC must approve lease Take delivery by 12103 HUnfi chary of $40 pm mile over 36000 mites Lessee pays for maintenance repair and excess wear If lease terminates early lessee is liable for all unpaid monthly payments Payments may be higher in some states Not available with other offers Take delivery by 11204 Only one Conquest Offer may be applied per eligible transaction Not available with some other offers See dealer for details tLength of contract limited Take delivery by 11204 See dealer for restrictions tfTake delivery by C2003 GM Corp i h — y' l'xv ' 12103 See dealer for details All rights reserved Break Through1 Cadillac Cadillac' badge CTS Escalade EXT" GMAC AVAILABLE COPT |