...Figure 8.1 Memorial of the Ia Drang Valley Association, 1st Cavalry Division, at the Vietnam Memorial, Washington DC. (From L. Powell, Hunger of the Heart: Communion at the Wall [Dubuque: Islewest, 1995], fig. 89) Figure 8.2 ‘Modern day Andromaches mourning’? The Vietnam...

...The arts of memory and of biography have always been closely related. For instance, the memoir, which is an act of remembrance, has a double sense: it looks at the past and to the future, selecting from the stream of memories to form an enduring record called memorial by which events and people can...

... in the Manx sculpture epigraphically and linguistically relate the island to the lands round the Irish Sea, while their typology and style history provide rough chronological yardsticks. The findings reveal that most pre-Viking memorial stones can be found in cemeteries on the sites of keeills...