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memorial

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




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On Saturday, preparations were underway for the victims' funerals the following day and church officials had dug a mass grave, which will become a memorial.

From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2026

Von Ferdinand began telling friends that Jett “wasn’t going to make it” and that she wanted to be cremated without any memorial service, Stephan said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

Burnham visited the Aberfan memorial garden on Monday morning alongside Jeff Edwards, one of the last children to be brought out alive from the wreckage, and Welsh Secretary Stephen Kinnock.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

"I have always felt something sacred here at this park," the 36-year-old told AFP recently, after burning incense near a memorial plaque.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026

Mr. Kreuk handled the memorial service for her husband.

From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse

Charlotte Knobloch, a Holocaust survivor and president of the Jewish Community in Munich, said that removing memorials from the cityscape was "completely the wrong approach".

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

But 25 years on, I’ve learned that grief doesn’t live only in memorials and names read aloud once a year.

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

Although there are several memorials to the deaths of these young people in other states, there has been no significant effort on the part of Birmingham and Alabama citizenry to remember these sacrifices appropriately.”

From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry


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