@e9eabda0 Wow Julie, this description is perfect....."Good art connects us to the living, breathing human beings of the past, but these public monuments aren’t art. We feel nothing for them, other than perhaps a vague sense of guilt for not caring about something that was obviously important a long time ago, or maybe, if the memorial is sufficiently bombastic or sappy, irritation." 

 @74a92ed7 Thank you!