The (Too-Brief) History of Traffic Violence Memorials in America (Peter Norton)
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Car Accident Memorials - Are They a Threat to Automobility?
Bob Greene: Automobility, automakers have played a role in redefining the way that we talk about car crashes. He says people like Charles Hayes who wanted to reconceive how we think of this problem were largely successful. Their anxiety about the monuments was that the losses were losses of innocent people, he says. Greene: Once innocence is questioned, the worthiness of the person to be memorialized is in question as well.
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