By Katrina Finkelstein and Derek H. AldermanOn Veterans Day, people across America will thank veterans and active-duty military personnel for their service. These ongoing, “living” memorials can be especially meaningful for service members processing their experiences and remembering those they lost, and physically represent the emotional weight they carry every day. Thirteen hundred feet above the base, more than 30 crosses stand on a hillside — a memorial site established in 2003. But some service members have objected, stressing that these items are deeply meaningful and carefully chosen. “Those mementos represented that suffering, that pain, that loss, that anguish, that angst, whatever it was” that service members needed to leave behind, Radetski said.

Source: Los Angeles Times November 11, 2021 05:29 UTC