ABSTRACT
Then I realise other things are also happening: I’m asked to contribute to a cause I don’t approve of; I turn a corner and there is an ageing, evangelical Christian distributing tracts. The main open space is occupied by a display of window panels to
failing to mark them, or even refusing to do so – says quite a bit about what the nation wishes to project about itself to the outside world, as well as to its own citizenry. For example, Civil War battlefields in the United States are well marked landscapes of national reverence, while events that still loom shameful in the U.S. national conscience – such as the Manzanar concentration camp where Japanese-Americans were interned during World War II, or the site of the Salem witch executions – remain unmarked.
