Pastoral Resources

They can see the brave silhouette from almost anywhere in the District of Columbia and use it as a compass to locate other monuments and eventually to find their way out of the great, gray federal wilderness.

Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future.

The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.

The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.

The sanctity of our battlefields, monuments, and veterans institutions is of utmost importance to preserve military history and pay respect to those who fought.

Monuments are for the living, not the dead.