International Business News - Memorial http://www.ibtimes.com All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif Germany's defense minister laid the foundation stone Thursday for the first national memorial to soldiers killed serving in the country's post-World War II military. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/183395-germany-military-memorial.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081127/germany-builds-memorial-to-post-wwii-soldiers.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081127/germany-builds-memorial-to-post-wwii-soldiers.htm Thu, 27 Nov 2008 11:05:17 EST Wal-Mart's charitable arm announced a $12.5 million letter of credit Thursday for the planned Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial on the National Mall to help start construction, though a disagreement over how to secure the site may delay the project until sometime next year. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081120/wal-mart-gives-credit-to-boost-mlk-memorial-effort.htm Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:27:52 EST Organizers of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial say former President Bill Clinton will help raise funds to complete the project planned for the National Mall. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081119/bill-clinton-to-raise-funds-for-king-memorial.htm Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:26:15 EST On the 30th anniversary of the Jonestown disaster Tuesday, organizers of an annual memorial service displayed the first panels of a 36-foot-long stone wall that is to be inscribed with the names of more than 900 victims of the violence in Guyana. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081118/jonestown-memorial-unveiled-on-30th-anniversary.htm Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:46:43 EST Actor David Schwimmer will be among members of Chicago's theater community honoring the late Studs Terkel next week. The broadcaster, activist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author died Oct. 31 at age 96. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081111/chicago-theater-community-to-honor-studs-terkel.htm Tue, 11 Nov 2008 09:34:04 EST Aging, frail survivors of the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor gingerly sifted dirt as they helped to break ground on a new visitor's center for the USS Arizona Memorial. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081106/work-starts-on-new-pearl-harbor-visitors-center.htm Thu, 06 Nov 2008 08:51:41 EST A sign marking the site where Emmett Till's battered body was pulled from a river in 1955 has been ripped down by vandals, authorities said. The sign posted on a road near the Tallahatchie River was among eight that were erected after the county adopted a resolution last year apologizing to Till's family because an all-white jury acquitted two white men of murdering Till for whistling at a white woman. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081027/sign-marking-site-of-1955-miss-murder-vandalized.htm Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:03:41 EDT Most of the dozen speakers at David Foster Wallace's memorial service brought a bottle of water to the lectern, as if inside were some branded tonic that would ease reliving the loss of a beloved author and friend. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081023/fellow-authors-memorialize-david-foster-wallace.htm Thu, 23 Oct 2008 23:35:23 EDT A former slave whose memoir is among the only ones known to describe abduction from Africa is about to get a historical marker in the small Vermont town where he ended up settling. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081006/vermont-town-to-honor-former-slaves-life.htm Mon, 06 Oct 2008 04:56:19 EDT Pilgrims who survived a bus crash and relatives of those who died returned to the area Sunday to celebrate Mass and honor city officials for their help, declaring that a bond had formed between this small north Texas city and the Houston area's Vietnamese community. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081005/texas-bus-crash-survivors-honor-emergency-helpers.htm Sun, 05 Oct 2008 22:14:01 EDT A Carnegie Mellon University professor whose "last lecture" of his life's lessons became an Internet sensation was celebrated Monday for challenging people to strive for more than they thought they were capable of, while remembering to have fun. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/136522-pausch-memorial.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080922/upbeat-professor-remembered-for-web-last-lecture.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080922/upbeat-professor-remembered-for-web-last-lecture.htm Mon, 22 Sep 2008 22:30:06 EDT A new $3.5 million memorial at Logan International Airport honors those who died after terrorists hijacked two airliners and crashed them into New York's World Trade Center seven years ago. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080909/boston-airport-to-dedicate-sept-11-memorial.htm Tue, 09 Sep 2008 10:31:21 EDT An island of peace amid the bustle of Logan International Airport was dedicated Tuesday to honor the 147 passengers and crew killed when terrorists flew two planes from here into New York City's World Trade Center. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/126743-correction-attacks-boston-memorial.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080909/boston-airport-to-dedicate-sept-11-memorial.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080909/boston-airport-to-dedicate-sept-11-memorial.htm Tue, 09 Sep 2008 19:28:02 EDT For tourists, the new memorial to 184 people who died at the Pentagon in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks is not especially convenient. Nor is it ideal from a security perspective to have 24-hour public access right outside the U.S. military's nerve center. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/125940-sept-11-pentagon-memorial.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080908/memorial-to-9-11-victims-set-to-open-at-pentagon.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080908/memorial-to-9-11-victims-set-to-open-at-pentagon.htm Mon, 08 Sep 2008 13:31:58 EDT Construction on the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial is closer to commencing after a panel overseeing architecture in the nation's capital approved final building plans Thursday. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/122723-king-memorial.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080904/capital-planners-approve-design-for-mlk-memorial.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080904/capital-planners-approve-design-for-mlk-memorial.htm Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:45:39 EDT House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will become the highest-ranking U.S. official to visit ground zero of the world's first atomic bombing in Hiroshima, Japan. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/120077-japan-microsoft-xbox.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080901/pelosi-to-visit-hiroshima-a-bomb-memorial.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080901/pelosi-to-visit-hiroshima-a-bomb-memorial.htm Mon, 01 Sep 2008 07:49:48 EDT Muhammad Ali and Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan were among those paying respects Saturday to Ali's former manager and the son of a former minister of the Nation of Islam. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080830/ali-attends-chicago-memorial-for-longtime-manager.htm Sat, 30 Aug 2008 22:54:02 EDT Tears drip on this patch of hardscrabble central New Mexico desert land--tears in steel, tears in concrete. A mother's tears. This is Sonja Britton's field of shattered dreams--a unique memorial to victims of drunken drivers budding from four acres of scrubby grass dotted with cholla cactus and yucca. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/118394-dwi-memorial.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080829/memorial-to-drunken-driver-victims-grows-in-nm.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080829/memorial-to-drunken-driver-victims-grows-in-nm.htm Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:16:21 EDT The Boeing Co. has announced a $1 million donation to help build the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial. The gift was announced at a unity breakfast at the Democratic National Convention on Thursday, the 45th anniversary of the civil rights leader's "I Have a Dream" speech. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080828/boeing-co-gives-1-million-to-build-mlk-memorial.htm Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:19:51 EDT An anti-crime group in suburban Chicago is offering a $1,000 reward for the return of a concrete piece of the Pentagon stolen from a Sept. 11 memorial. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080825/reward-offered-for-stolen-piece-of-9-11-memorial.htm Mon, 25 Aug 2008 03:24:25 EDT