The Global War on Terrorism Memorial

eliot ackerman: The proliferation of war memorials on our national mawl is actually o relatively recent occurrence. What i would like to see if i had all the power in the world for a day would be sort of the elimination of all these different war memorials and the creation of a single war memorial, he says. Ackerman: On that wall would be the names of all of america's war dead,. chronologically, listed to begin with crismus attox, a free black man killed at the boston massacre. And by law, that pen would be the only pen by which the president of the united states could sign a deployment order for troops.