ADVANTAGES OF THE LETTER AS A MEMORIAL

• People take a private moment to think about war

• People identifies themselves in the unknown soldier

• It will foreground the idea of being part of something big, involving the whole country

• It will explicitly invite people to be part of something that is an alternative to more official and regimented forms of commemoration

• People feels free to write what they think

DISADVANTAGES OF THE LETTER AS A MEMORIAL

• Someone writes without knowing and reading up about the topic