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One is plain old building, and one is a tree. This is an actual monument and, as far as I can see, still the only one in the world. Perhaps "memorial" needs to be changed to "monument" to avoid confusion; I could paint my car into a memorial for fallen reporters but that doesn't make it a monument. Kafziel Talk 13:20, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
There's no confusion. The dictionary definition of "monument" includes 1) buildings (the Memorial Press Center building was dedicated by President Eisenhower as a living memorial to fallen journalists) and 2) memorial stone markers (the memorial in Arlington is more than a tree - there's a stone marker) e.g. see
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/monument "1. A structure, such as a building or sculpture, erected as a memorial. 2. An inscribed marker placed at a grave; a tombstone."
http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/monument "a memorial stone or a building erected in remembrance of a person or event"
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/monument "something erected in memory of a person, event, etc., as a building, pillar, or statue"; "a written tribute to a person, esp. a posthumous one."
(A monument can even be just a designated location without a special artificial structure, so a special tree would count too. Here's an example of this notion being used in the policy of a major city [1]) Bwithh 18:03, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
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One is plain old building, and one is a tree. This is an actual monument and, as far as I can see, still the only one in the world. Perhaps "memorial" needs to be changed to "monument" to avoid confusion; I could paint my car into a memorial for fallen reporters but that doesn't make it a monument. Kafziel Talk 13:20, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
There's no confusion. The dictionary definition of "monument" includes 1) buildings (the Memorial Press Center building was dedicated by President Eisenhower as a living memorial to fallen journalists) and 2) memorial stone markers (the memorial in Arlington is more than a tree - there's a stone marker) e.g. see
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/monument "1. A structure, such as a building or sculpture, erected as a memorial. 2. An inscribed marker placed at a grave; a tombstone."
http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/monument "a memorial stone or a building erected in remembrance of a person or event"
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/monument "something erected in memory of a person, event, etc., as a building, pillar, or statue"; "a written tribute to a person, esp. a posthumous one."
(A monument can even be just a designated location without a special artificial structure, so a special tree would count too. Here's an example of this notion being used in the policy of a major city [1]) Bwithh 18:03, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
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