Seeing the Past in Present Tense-Paula Levine

"Monuments, commemoratives, memorials assert themselves in our consciousness, creating a presence that calls for remembrance,"

I found this interesting especially in respect to the Harburg monument, which has been relatively forgotten. It's a monument which has been looked past, loosing it;s meaning and it's memory, being replaced by unaware or caring shoppers, cigarette butts, and grass. It brings to the question how can a community forget an important monument of the past.

Monuments are an important part of the present as well as the past. Commemorating some sort of significant event, ect.