Well, Sturken was talking about the difference between a monument and a memorial in the beginning of the article. He said that "While a monument most often signifies victory, a memorial refers to the life or lives sacrificed for a particulate set of value." That being said, "we erect monuments so that we shall always remember, and build memorials so that shall never forget" evokes Arthur Danto.
I think people who have been through Vietnam War don't necessarily know more than people born in this new generation. But they definitely have greater resonance with the soldiers in Vietnam, which we don't have. We have to write about it, however. So we should go find more first-hand sources written by the people who were bore during that war. Because the experience of death really matters.
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