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Monuments
They can be monuments of different kinds – very traditional or modern, incorporating figures or just inscriptions, and placed in capital cities or towns and villages of a country.
Monuments are the most common kind of physical memorials, erected to honour, celebrate or remember important or well loved persons, episodes or events.
Memorials to road traffic victims in the form of monuments can be national or local memorials. There are already many local road victim memorials in existence, but calls for national memorials to road crash victims are increasing.
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Memorial - Gardens, Woods and Buildings
They can be Memorial Gardens, Memorial Woods or special Buildings. These sites can be launched on World Day in a specific year and thereafter they represent focal points for various World Day remembrance commemorations.
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The RoadPeace Wood is part of the National Memorial
Arboretum in Staffordshire, England, UK. |
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Roadside Memorials
A very popular act of remembrance is placing roadside memorials on crash sites. A bunch of flowers on the spot where someone lost their life on the road is the most common roadside memorial, which is seen in countries throughout the world. Other roadside memorials are characteristic of the country in which they are located.
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Mementos
When someone dies, their possessions become very precious and are often kept as souvenirs or keepsakes. Sometimes those grieving cannot bear to lose reminders of their loved ones and in some cases rooms are left just as they were.
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Internet Memorials
Besides being published, Testimonies, Tributes and Poems can be placed on the internet, and several websites, especially of road victim organizations, offer this facility to bereaved people.
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Music as a Memorial
Music especially composed to address the futility of road deaths and long-lasting pain of victims is an important and much valued memorial.
Special compositions have been offered in remembrance of road crash victims.
For World Day 2008, Charles Timberlake composed The Long Adieu – a musical memorial to road crash victims, a piano piece, which it is hoped will bring solace and healing to the huge group of road trauma victims worldwide.
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Memorials
