People keep saying that a stand-alone Statute doesn’t provide “context” for understanding the full set of issues surrounding the individual and why he is being memorialized in stone or bronze….if that is the standard we use, than probably 90 percent of these statutes need to be removed or relocated to a museum where such context is feasible. Alternatively, one can think about something like the Vietnam memorial or new 9/11 memorial in D.C and NYC….the “place” alone seems to provide sufficient context without triggering all the emotions about the underlying historical debate over the underlying event being memorialized.
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