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memorial

[muh-mawr-ee-uhl, -mohr-] / məˈmɔr i əl, -ˈmoʊr- /




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She also shared that a co-worker-organized memorial celebrating Rodriguez’s life will take place Saturday evening at the Wildwood Elementary School.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

The GoFundMe fund-raiser was launched by Kate Jones to help cover Harrison's funeral and memorial costs, as well as household bills and essential expenses while his parents take time away from work to grieve.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

It is a living memorial to a president who was taken from us too soon, a man who had the audacity to aim for the moon before the science existed to get us there.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

“No one will ever dictate which heroes we should honor,” he said in June as he unveiled plans for a memorial complex in Kyiv listing the names of Ukrainian resistance fighters such as the UPA.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

“It’s a shame there was no memorial service, but it’s nice, in a way. Now we all have our own last images of him.”

From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly

There has been a wave of criticism in Germany after the town of Heidenau, near Dresden in Saxony, decided to ban "stumbling stone" memorials to victims of the Nazis.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

On college campuses, the day is now often observed through academic discussions instead of memorials.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

The various 9/11 memorials may have given citizens a space to mourn the national tragedy, the authors argue, but they occasionally have attracted controversy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

They encounter what happened through photographs, documentaries, memorials, classroom lessons and stories told by people who were alive on that day.

From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026

The meeting hall is next to the church but separated from the grander building by a garden of white crosses, memorials to the deceased.

From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland




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