Obviously there should be a memorial to the people who lived here before 1600 and there should be a memorial to the people who were enslaved here.

There should be a memorial to Olaudah Equiano as a probable former Virginian and leader on the opposite side of the abolition argument in London from Tarleton (he of the oak).

There should be a memorial to the Civil Rights movement.

There should be a memorial to the work of George Norris and Robert Campus, local residents who helped launch the 2003 war on Iraq that killed over a million people, by putting their names to the lies about aluminum tubes that nobody in Washington would touch.

There should be a memorial to Georgia O'Keefe, one for Edgar Allen Poe, one for Ralph Sampson.

David Swanson (Electronic mail, November 17, 2014)