The federal government has a program that allows victims of crime and their dependents to be reimbursed for certain costs. This program has been used as a vehicle to erect monuments dedicated to those who have suffered from crime. In Indianapolis, there are several monuments that commemorate the victims of crime and their sacrifices. One such monument is the 32nd Indiana Infantry Monument, which was sculpted in late January 1862. This monument is inscribed with a brief description of the battle and the names, birthdates, and birthplaces of those who fell. It is one of the few military memorials or monuments erected while the war was still in full swing. The African-American Civil War Memorial opened in 1999 in the U Street neighborhood of Washington, DC.
This monument commemorates those killed in the Civil War and reflects the growing public awareness that military courage must be commemorated. In addition to these monuments, there are also memorials dedicated to Confederate soldiers who died in former prisoner-of-war camps in the northern states. For example, the monumental pyramid erected in 1869 in the Hollywood cemetery was dedicated to Confederate soldiers buried in the cemetery. This monument symbolizes the situation of German immigrants to the United States in the 1860s who lived in two worlds. After reburying them in the cemetery, the 11 soldiers received individual headstones, which changed the meaning of the carving from being a tombstone that marked the remains of several soldiers to becoming a monument commemorating their sacrifice. From the 1890s until about 1920, many Northern state legislatures funded the installation of monuments in national cemeteries where large numbers of their dead were buried. The semi-cylindrical monuments of Korea and Vietnam, which are part of the American Legion Mall, were opened in 1996. The federal government also built a small number of monuments at sites of former Confederate prisoners of war, such as the granite obelisk dedicated in 1876 to the unknown dead at Salisbury National Cemetery (North Carolina).In Indianapolis, there are several monuments dedicated to victims of crime and their sacrifices.
These memorials serve as a reminder that courage and bravery should be honored and remembered.
