Robert Coe wrote:

that inscription has also been allowed to deteriorate. It's inlaid (in
a contrasting color) in a marble floor with high pedestrian traffic
and has become quite worn. When I was there fifty years ago, it was
prominent; now some of it is hard to read. It was followed by a verse
from a poem lamenting the Civil War, and that has been all but
obliterated.

Some folk might view that as a healthy way to install a memorial of that
nature. It is after all, only truly a \memorial\ only for as long as
there are still people around who can put faces to the names, and that
is becoming a dwindlingly small number in the case of WW2, is more or
less zero for WW1, and has been zero for the US Civil War for pretty
well a century. Once everyone with the memory stirred by the memorial
has gone, it is just a list of names.

The problem with attempting to keep alive the memories of conflicts for
much longer than the lifetimes of those who actually endured them is
that after a while the wrong messages can be sent, and names such as
Bannockburn, the Boyne and so on end up as rallying calls for a whole
new generation of people with too little perspective and too much hot
blood.

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