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I've been tasked with drafting the text for a memorial plaque dedicated to group X. Group X was big, diverse, and had several hundred years of rich history. Amount of space I have is 2-3 sentences....
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2019-12-12T21:57:32Z (over 4 years ago)
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2019-12-08T10:40:26Z (over 4 years ago)
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I've been tasked with drafting the text for a memorial plaque dedicated to group X. Group X was big, diverse, and had several hundred years of rich history. Amount of space I have is 2-3 sentences. I don't want the memorial to be yet another "a whole bunch of people died in the Holocaust". I'm looking to give group X some individuality. But how do I do that in so little space? Ideally, what I'd want the memorial to represent is "there was a whole bunch of history and culture bound up with group X, and we should remember _that_, not just that # people were killed". On a memorial to a single person, one writes that person's main achievement. If it's to an event, like a battle, it can be summarised too. But what do I do with a big group?
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2019-01-23T20:33:45Z (over 5 years ago)
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