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Share knowledge and participate ethically and productively as members of our democratic society.
When we think of the word memorial, many different images may come to mind: a bronze or granite tombstone in our local cemetery, the George Washington Monument or other statue of a famous American, a park or museum built to honor lives lost in some tragic accident or war. These are all forms of memorialization.
A memorial may mourn a death, but it also celebrates a life! It announces to the world that someone or some group has passed through our world, and that journey has mattered.
Memorials are built for a plethora of reasons. A person's life's work might be worthy of the honor; an individual might be the first in history to accomplish a great feat, or an group of people might be part of a great historical event/tragedy. Your memorial project asks you to memorialize someone because he/she is a humanitarian. Ahumanitarian is a person who devotes a great portion of his/her life to saving or improving human lives or alleviating the suffering or struggle of others through a vocation, social reform, philanthropy or political activism.
Here are some examples of public memorials. For each, can you determine WHY the person was considered a humanitarian?