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memory wearing its Sunday best, refusing to let the dead become strangers.
means The act of recalling or honoring someone or something from the past, especially a person who has died or an event worth memorializing.
from From the Old French remembrance, built on the verb remembrer, which traces back to Latin rememorari — re- ('again') plus memor ('mindful'). That same memor sits at the root of memory, memorial, and the whole family of words about holding the past in mind. Remembrance entered English in the medieval period through French, and from the start it carried weight beyond simple recollection: not just to recall, but to call back, deliberately and with feeling.
- poppy origin
- red poppies bloomed over churned WWI battlefields
- memory palace
- ancient orators walked imagined rooms to recall speeches
- day of dead
- Mexico greets ancestors with marigolds and food
- brain trick
- recalling a memory rewrites it slightly each time
- forget-me-not
- flower named to defy oblivion itself
remembrance day — november 11 annual observance in commonwealth countries honoring military war dead since 1919
memorial day — last monday of may in the united states dedicated to honoring fallen military service members
yad vashem — world holocaust remembrance center in jerusalem established 1953 with 6 million documented victims