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• n  a structure erected to commemorate persons or events
• n  an important site that is marked and preserved as public property
• n  a burial vault (usually for some famous person)

• Protect the monument!" shouts "Meadow Woman," an activist who is wearing a 10-ft.
• In the little village of Steenstrat, a grave and august group of French, British and Belgian notables unveiled a monument last week to the 39,000 French and British victims of .
• Unofortunately for the monuments opponents, the race to halt its construction appears to have hit a brick wall.

• memorial
• repository

News & Articles

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• Monument Mountain girls fall in D-III state team tennis final
  SHREWSBURY -- Thrust onto the state championship stage, the Monument Mountain girls tennis team discovered just how tough the best in Massachusetts can be.
  June 16, 2013 - Berkshire Eagle
• Atheists' monument will sit alongside Ten Commandments in latest speech battle in Bradford County
  For the first time, a monument dedicated to the separation of church and state will sit alongside the Ten Commandments on a public space.
  June 16, 2013 - The Florida Times-Union
• PHOTOS, VIDEO: Soldiers Monument in Ballston Spa rededicated
  The Soldiers Monument in Ballston Spa was rededicated during a ceremony Saturday. The village banded together in 2012 to restore the monument, which was first dedicated in 1888 and had fallen into a state of disrepair.
  June 16, 2013 - The Saratogian

Quotes

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• Mitch McConnell in The Hill (blog)
  McConnell said the ceremony helps "tell the rest of the story ...... to acknowledge the profound indignity that the slaves who helped clear this land and lay these stones must have suffered in building this great monument to freedom; to remind...
• Samuel Alito in International Herald Tribune
  Alito said "the display of a permanent monument in a public park" requires a different analysis.
• Antonin Scalia in Church Executive Magazine
  Pleasant Grove City "can safely exhale," Scalia wrote. "Its residents and visitors can now return to enjoying Pioneer Park 's wishing well, its historic granary -- and, yes, even its Ten Commandments monument -- without fear that they are...