Note: Originally posted as a DailyKos diary; slightly modified.
There are two basic kinds of war monuments here in France. The most ubiquitous and easy to find are those commemorating the fallen of World War I: there is at least one in every town and every hamlet, no matter how small, and all bear impossibly long lists of names of those who died "for the glory of France."
There are other monuments, often just plaques, affixed to what seem to be random walls and fences and buildings, scattered here and there in cities and suburbs: these are from World War II, and they commemorate a specific act at a specific moment in time that occurred on that very spot: members of the Resistance executed by the Nazis, for example.
What kind of monument will be built in Iraq?
