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:
“When I received this [coronation] ring I solemnly bound myself in marriage to the realm; and it will be quite sufficient for the memorial of my name and for my glory, if, when I die, an inscription be engraved on a marble tomb, saying, “Here lieth Elizabeth, which reigned a virgin, and died a virgin.””
—Elizabeth I (1533–1603)
“I make myself this time
Of wood or granite or lime
A wall too hard for crime
Either to breach or climb....”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)