Memorial day is right around the corner, how would you memorialize our fallen?

There is a discussion up here asking what everyone's favorite memorial is and why. Love reading that one because it is a good reminder of what all our fellow soldiers, sailors airmen and marines have given past and present for this great nation to be and thrive.

This got me thinking. If I were to be the one to design and produce a memorial to our soldiers, what would it look like, where would it be, what impression or message would I want those who visited it to take away. When I was thinking of this I was doing so in the context of my own personal experience with the war in iraq, and my brothers in the 69th who gave all on that deployment.

A simple battlefield cross. An M4 with an EoTech, an ACH and a pair of Desert boots is enough for me. I've been considering putting something like this with my flagpole when it goes up (But man the cost to get stuff bronzed is huge! And none of the statues I have seen that can be ordered look like the battlefield crosses I remember having at our memorial services in Baghdad).

SO if you where tasked with coming up with the design or concept for a memorial, what would it look like? Would it be something massive and grandiose to symbolize the huge impact and consequence of war akin to the sword of Baghdad and their piles of helmets, something simple and powerful like the sunken Arizona left where the enemy came from her and her crew, or simple and hidden away in your own small town or on your units home post, a reminder for the soldiers to come that they have big and hollowed boots to fill.