The Minoa memorial-- direct SLURL teleport to the site at this link or pic above
It's Memorial Day in the US, and tonight at 8pm SLT, the world's first Iraqi War Memorial, made to honor Coalition forces who lost their lives there, is being rededicated in solemn, public ceremony at its new location, in Minoa. Several other memorials have been built since then, but the one in Minoa is hosted by Ace Cassidy, who erected it in 2004 in another sim. As with the original, service members' names are displayed in stark relief on the marble panel above an eternal flame.
That it has lasted for so long is testimony to the devotion Ace and the members of his group have given it-- and to all those who've invested their feelings for their countries' war dead in a virtual memorial. At another site, where the names of America's casualties are engraved in marble, for example, Eureka Dejavu recently came across a new Resident who had barely learned to control his avatar-- but was still trying to find the name of a friend who had perished in a 2005 rocket-propelled grenade attack.
Iraq isn't the only war for which memorials have been made.
Unveiled last year, The Wall SL is a tribute to Maya Lin's famed Vietnam Memorial site
in Washington D.C., but comes with immersive features unique to Second
Life: the names of the Wall's war dead are pronounced aloud with a
synthesized text reader, while music of the period becomes the
location's soundtrack. Here's a video taken last night on location; note the flowers and flags laid under various names along the wall. (Direct SLURL teleport to The Wall at this link.)
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