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As she grew to enjoy the deployment, Beckstrom sent photos of monuments and of a patch given to her by a local sheriff’s office, Short said.

The town’s dominant monument is Little Hagia Sophia, a Byzantine church that in the eighth century hosted the last ecumenical council recognized by both the Eastern and Western churches.

And Alexandre’s movie theater, with its bloody spectacles, gets replaced by something very different: a blood bank, a monument to recovery.

As Bill Plaschke waxes nostalgic, the rest of us slog down the 10 Freeway from Westwood, through downtown, up into the far northeast corner of L.A., to the antiquated monument that is the Rose Bowl.

Here Warhol is staking his claim to the city, declaring himself a monument to its artistic masses.