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Healing and Remembrance
Healing and Remembrance

Photo collage: The Vietnam War Memorial at night; painted wooden prayer plaque at Japanese Shinto shrine; altar at a Day of the Dead ceremony at Mexican cemetery.

“Memorial (noun): something that keeps remembrance alive.”
—Merriam-Webster Dictionary

From the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. to the Shinto shrines of Japan, from altars on New York street corners to “virtual” candles on the Web — people find solace and healing in remembering those that have passed.

Regardless of how the expression is manifested—a humble shrine in a Vietnamese village or graffiti art in the Bronx—these symbolic memorials help us acknowledge, remember and heal.

Explore this photo gallery, a sampling of personal and public tributes that hold deep meaning and keep “remembrance alive.”




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