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Definition of Memorial
Memorial

Serving to preserve remembrance; commemorative; as, a memorial building.

Mnemonic; assisting the memory.

Anything intended to preserve the memory of a person or event; something which serves to keep something else in remembrance; a monument.

A memorandum; a record.

A written representation of facts, addressed to the government, or to some branch of it, or to a society, etc., -- often accompanied with a petition.

Memory; remembrance.

A species of informal state paper, much used in negotiation.

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Memorial Quotations

Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When I was building the Vietnam Memorial, I never once asked the veterans what it was like in the war, because from my point of view, you don't pry into other people's business.
Maya Lin

I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans. The politics were irrelevant to what this memorial was.
Maya Lin

137 years later, Memorial Day remains one of America's most cherished patriotic observances. The spirit of this day has not changed - it remains a day to honor those who died defending our freedom and democracy.
Doc Hastings

When the soldiers came home from Vietnam, there were no parades, no celebrations. So they built the Vietnam Memorial for themselves.
William Westmoreland

Memorial Translations

memorial in German is Denkmal
memorial in Spanish is conmemorativo


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