Memorial for the OU nut

[iplaw]

quote:Originally posted by Ed W

I looked at this somewhat differently.  Here's a father wanting to purchase a memorial for his son.  Regardless of how he died, his family grieves for the loss of a child.  The political spin and media controversy is a distant secondary to a grieving family.  In this case, a memorial is a symbol for loss: the loss of a child, the lost opportunities, and the lost chances of putting him on another path.

There are other memorials to some dubious (or worse) characters.  The Alfred Packer grill in a dining hall at the University of Colorado, for instance, is named after a notorious cannibal.

Would you be okay with the families of the 9/11 hijackers putting up memorials on the former site of the WTC towers?

[Conan71]

Everyone looks at things differently I guess.  If it were my child, I don't think I'd request a memorial on the spot where he blew himself up whilst ostensibly contemplating taking a lot more people with him. JMHO.

[patric]

I wonder what the reaction would be to adding a chair at the OKC memorial for McVeigh.

...That would have been about the scale of it had Hinrichs not been stopped at the stadium gate.

[Conan71]

quote:Originally posted by patric

I wonder what the reaction would be to adding a chair at the OKC memorial for McVeigh.

...That would have been about the scale of it had Hinrichs not been stopped at the stadium gate.

Good points.

[Ed W]

It's easy to hate a dead man.  The hard part is extending some compassion toward those he left behind.  Memorials are for the living because the dead don't care.  If his family finds solace in purchasing such a memorial, I see nothing wrong in that.  They'll be tortured with 'what if' questions for the rest of their lives.

[ttownclown]

Memorials are for HONORING people.  This guy showed no honor. He showed up to the largest event in the state with a bomb. It shouldn't matter that the investigation said he didn't intend to hurt others because he put so many lives in danger!- It is truly unbelievable that we would reward him with an eternal place on campus for such an act.

[jdb]

May have to change my initial post.
My impression was the "memorial" was nothing more then a paver with a chiseled name.

One paver among thousands.

Who's got a photo of this thing?
jdb

[Conan71]

quote:Originally posted by Ed W

It's easy to hate a dead man.  The hard part is extending some compassion toward those he left behind.  Memorials are for the living because the dead don't care.  If his family finds solace in purchasing such a memorial, I see nothing wrong in that.  They'll be tortured with 'what if' questions for the rest of their lives.

That's fine, that is what tombstones are for.  As I remember the family is in Colorado Springs and I would venture a guess that is where his remains wound up.  Near his would be the appropriate place for the monument.

Memorials at the site of death are usually put there when people die in an accident or at the hands of someone else.