Archinect - News2024-05-20T14:43:21-04:00https://archinect.com/news/article/97182006/a-memorial-inscription-s-grim-origins
A Memorial Inscription’s Grim Origins Alexander Walter2014-04-03T14:29:00-04:00>2014-04-07T19:30:53-04:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/d4/d42a4beb466520c06c7977879f7b9e09?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>When the National September 11 Memorial Museum opens next month at the World Trade Center, visitors will find a stark wall separating them from a repository containing about 8,000 unidentified human remains from the 2001 terrorist attack.
On the wall is a 60-foot-long inscription, in 15-inch letters [...]: “No day shall erase you from the memory of time. Virgil.” [...]
I asked a half-dozen classicists about the use of this inscription at the memorial museum. All but one questioned the choice.</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
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