1 paragraph- Name one major event/crisis/occurrence that impacted your life and

1 paragraph- Name one major event/crisis/occurrence that impacted your life and the world around you.  How would you memorialize it?  What type of project/monument/statue/writing/etc. would you propose to memorialize it?  What criteria are important to you in your conceptualization of a proper memorialization?
2nd paragraph-
Keeping in mind how Dinh Q. Le, Simon Leung, and Binh Danh wove together the various components and revealed the inextricably complicated and multilayered nature of memory, reflect on the following prompt : recall the most vivid memory you have from your childhood.  How is that memory constructed?  Now think about the images that make up a national memory for you – whether it is the United States or another nation that you have kinship to.  Where do those images come from?  How have those images come together to make up your remembrance of that memory?