An overhead view of the 1996 display of the AIDS Memorial Quilt on the National Mall in Washington, DC. It is made up of around 40,000 panels, grouped in sections of 12x12 square feet. The sections are laid end to end in groups of 4, with 4 such groups side-by-side to make a row across the width of the Mall, with walking aisles in between. The rows go on and on, into the distance, until they cannot even be discerned as colorful patchwork rectangles, anymore, but just tiny fields of static. Along each side of the Mall is a stretch of park/trees about half a city block wide, with assorted Smithsonian museums outside of those. About a mile away, in the center, is the US Capitol building

An overhead view (via Google Earth) looking from the Washington Monument toward the Capitol, along the National Mall.

The last time the AIDS memorial quilt was displayed in its entirety was in 1996.

At the time, there were "only" around 40,000 panels (each containing anywhere from one to dozens of names), and it took up the entire National Mall.

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Remembering the Dead, One Name at a Time I was watching Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt  the other day. The documentary was made in 1989, when the Quilt was fairly new. It was still small enough - small being a relative term - to be f...

From 2018, when I first started writing about memorials. I dug deeper in my book about losing friends during COVID, but this is where the idea began.

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