A memorial wall is a wall typically engraved to commemorate a number of people with something in common (e.g., from one country or place) killed in a single conflict, violent event, or disaster, often with names.
Memorial Walls include:
- Many memorial walls without specific names in places such as crematoriums and synagogues
- Memorial Wall of Royal Australian Air Force Memorial
- Memorial Stadium (Baltimore)#Memorial wall (US)
- Budapest Ghetto#Memorial Wall
- Canadian National Vimy Memorial (France)
- CIA Memorial Wall (US)
- Memorial Wall of Cenotaph War Memorial, Colombo (Sri Lanka)
- FDNY memorial wall (New York City, US)
- Korean War Memorial Wall (disambiguation)
- Korean War Memorial Wall (Canada)
- Walls of Kranji War Memorial (Singapore)
- Piccadilly, Warwickshire#Miners Memorial Wall (England)
- Tangshan Earthquake Memorial Wall (China)
- Veterans Memorial Wall (US)
- Vietnam Veterans Memorial (US)
- The Moving Wall, replica of Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Famous quotes containing the words memorial and/or wall:
“I hope there will be no effort to put up a shaft or any monument of that sort in memory of me or of the other women who have given themselves to our work. The best kind of a memorial would be a school where girls could be taught everything useful that would help them to earn an honorable livelihood; where they could learn to do anything they were capable of, just as boys can. I would like to have lived to see such a school as that in every great city of the United States.”
—Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906)
“... the Wall became a magnet for citizens of every generation, class, race, and relationship to the war perhaps because it is the only great public monument that allows the anesthetized holes in the heart to fill with a truly national grief.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)