The Mall in Washington, D.C. is a living kind of place. It attracts all manner of people. Indeed, it honors all manner of people. At one end is the U.S. Capitol, in which any person, assuming he can get through security, will have the opportunity to see the chamber of the U.S. House of Representatives or that of the U.S. Senate. At the far end of the Mall – just beyond the Lincoln Memorial – is the Potomac River. In between are a variety of museums and memorials to famous Founding Fathers, such as Washington and Jefferson.
As the times rolled by, demands arose for new memorials to honor a somewhat different order of worthy. Instead of memorials to outstanding historical figures of this nation’s past, a new, martial trend was discerned. There was constructed a Memorial Wall to Veterans of the Vietnam War. Later, there was constructed a Memorial to the Veterans of the Korean War.
In these latter two memorials there seemed to be a new trend of honoring the people in a more general way, as opposed to its leaders. Both memorials have been popular, receiving many visitors.I have the impression that there may be plans to build memorials to World War I & World War II, also. Of course, the Holocaust Memorial, aka, “the Haunted House,” is about a half block away from the Mall. If the world war projects go forward, the United States would seemingly be on the Roman road of war triumphs and honors. The memorials to the veterans of the two Iraqi wars plus Afghanistan may be just off stage awaiting a cue.
The original idea of an open sward between U.S. Capitol and the White House has long ago been subsumed by institutional erudition and vanity. Modern political correctness, aka, cultural Marxism, demands a return to overblown images of movement heroes. The memorial to the late Martin Luther King will probably be the first of these. If American leadership holds true to form, then subsequent memorials to Latino movement heroes would seem to be a certainty. I foresee a memorial to the American Indian on the Mall. Certainly, Asians will also find a memorial representation in an as yet uncertain hero.
The time may soon arrive when sunshine cannot find its way to the Mall for all the memorials.
As for myself, I’d prefer to see a new site obtained to honor various wars & warriors and various movement heroes. Haines Point might be such a site. Roosevelt Island might also be a suitable site, after securing it from flooding. Another possibility would be eminent domain expropriation for this purpose. One possibility would be the land east of the Supreme Court between East Capitol and Independence Avenue SE. It could extend all the way to the parking areas of RFK Stadium.
Although most people might not care for this idea, I also believe that the Maryland land south of National Harbor overlooking the Potomac River would be a likely spot.
At any rate we have travelled a long way from the practical reasoning of George Washington and the artistic reasoning of Thomas Jefferson to the Marxism-Baalism of modern American leadership. For many the Mall has become the New National Laboratory where we create our strength through honoring our diversity.
Will there be confusion through diversity on the Mall? Who can say? No one in America has a clear head any more. Well, almost none.
Note: Persistent hacking by an nest of molesters makes uniformity of text size and font difficult. It is the price of talent that the feckless nerd can only mar the appearance of words.
