RE: Is anything sacred? (Extra credit for specifying what it is for you.)
November 15, 2017 at 8:55 pm
I remain amazed at my differing reactions to the Vietnam Memorial and the AIDS Quilt, so I understand people having different reactions to different items in that category.
I have many friends commemorated in the AIDS Quilt, I've made a panel for it too. It is simultaneously for me an absolutely compelling and emotionally overwhelming display for me to experience.
And it is such a contrast to the Vietnam Memorial. That cold black stone just is (for me) such a grim and awful thing, I can hardly stand to look at it. Curiously, there was controversy before it was built, many folks didn't like the proposal. I did, BTW. But seeing it built in RL was awful. It is so cold and grim, I couldn't be around it.
The AIDS Quilt is just a profoundly different memorial. Guess our tribes there (soldiers and gays, FTMP) just don't intersect that much in Venn world.
I have many friends commemorated in the AIDS Quilt, I've made a panel for it too. It is simultaneously for me an absolutely compelling and emotionally overwhelming display for me to experience.
And it is such a contrast to the Vietnam Memorial. That cold black stone just is (for me) such a grim and awful thing, I can hardly stand to look at it. Curiously, there was controversy before it was built, many folks didn't like the proposal. I did, BTW. But seeing it built in RL was awful. It is so cold and grim, I couldn't be around it.
The AIDS Quilt is just a profoundly different memorial. Guess our tribes there (soldiers and gays, FTMP) just don't intersect that much in Venn world.
The granting of a pardon is an imputation of guilt, and the acceptance a confession of it.
