We have monuments to the war dead, and lives lost to other catastrophes. But commemorating those who have died in the American epidemic of gun violence is an almost unspeakable challenge.
The day after 19 children and two teachers were fatally shot at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas in late May—and less than two weeks after a racist shooter killed 10 African Americans in a Buffalo, New York, supermarket—Philip Kennicott, senior art and architecture critic of The Washington Post, called for a National Memorial to Gun Violence.
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