[PurpleMountains]

I agree with your point (in fact I detest the yellow ribbon nonsense), but if we are going to have a memorial, it should honor our country. Please return to my blog and read my Friday post.

[thomaswest]

Yellow ribbons make it too easy for people to avoid deeper meanings. Same with memorials intended to make the present generation feel better. Our generation knows these things first-hand. A true memorial is for generations beyond ours.

It is interesting--the memorials in Lexington, MA and Concord, MA for the Revolutionary War. These were only erected 100 years later. And these Massachusetts memorials are the very earliest in the Republic--100 years after Independence.