Submissions and Contributions
Comments on this webpage are welcome at the guestbook (see right).
Submissions are welcome! Just about any addition you would like to make to this website
can be considered. Would you like to photograph and describe a site you have visited?
I am thrilled to include work other than my own in this online collection.
You would of course be given full credit and can keep the copyright on anything
you submit. I would post a link to your webpage as well. If you have any ideas,
please contact me at
sitesofmemory @ hatlie.de
If you don't know if there are any memorials near you, you can check out
PVT Donald B. Conrad's Guide to Military Memorials
if you live in the United States.
If you want to contribute a memorial or monument to this site, please follow
these guidlines:
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Get one or two "panarama" shots showing the site in context and, as far as possible,
the various elements of the site in relation to each other.
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Get detail photographs of all the important elements, especially text.
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Photograph it such that the marker should be completely "readable" online. Of course
this does not apply to cemeteries. The point is not to record every stone, but to
provide details of all the ideological and artistic elements that make up the site.
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Include a description of what is where at the site. If there are various elements of the
site, as at a cemetery or memorial ensemble or complex, describe in words how the
elements in the photos relate to each other in space. Read some of my submissions
for examples.
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If you can, please include a translation of any
text on the site if the marker is not in one of those languages. If you can't, that
is not a major obstacle.
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If you know anything about the history of the marker, please include that information.
If you cannot follow these guidlines because you already have the photos and cannot
return to the site, the shots may be usable anyway. Not all of the sites included so
far have been 100%.
If you would like to do the more exacting work required to get your pictures ready for
publication here and would like to attach specific remarks to specific photographs, you
can go to the students' guidelines page. There,
the HTML code for a "site" is given and you can embed your own text in among your
photographs.
Bear in mind, however, that the purpose of this site is not to remember as such, but to
study remembrance.
Wish List
Sites I would particularly like to have someone submit for this webpage include:
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mass grave sites for victims of Allied and Axis bombings during World War Two
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civil rights movement monuments in Kelly Ingram Park, in Birmingham, Alabama
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Southeast Asian war and genocide memorials (Vietnam, Cambodia)
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"totalitarian" monuments and memorials, especially from North Korea, China, Iran
and Iraq.
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Russian memorials to the Soviet Afghan War
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the Fank Zappa memorial in Vilnius, Lithuania and the John Lennon "Strawberry Fields" memorial in New York City
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memorials/monuments to the Herero Rebellion of 1904 or other colonial wars
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memorials to unusual constituencies (animals, religious groups, etc.)
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memorials to the Chaco War (indeed, anything from Latin America would be interesting)
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memorials to transportation catastrophes (Überlingen, Ramstein,
Eschede, Estonia, the Old 97, etc.)
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memorials to the Winter War of 1939-1940 (are there even any Soviet
memorials to this conflict?)
Afghanistan
Armenia
Austria
Bahrain
Belgium
Egypt
Estonia
France
Germany
Great Britain
Greece
Iran
Iraq
Italy
Korea, South
Japan
Kosovo
Kuwait
Latvia
Netherlands
Philippines
Poland
Russia
Serbia
Turkey
Ukraine
United States
