memorialize the site but what they were going to do is build a very large version of the washington rsion of the washington monument to read was rockefeller washingtonian? i wouldn't have said so and i don't think that he would have said so, but i think that his family were happy sinking so so this is what he got as the memorial and it stands on a kind of platform where you have to go up and down the steps to get to a. one of the things he did in his like towards the end was to hand out to anybody who was anywhere near him but mostly children, shiny new dimes, and this was something that endeared him to his fellow countrymen. ied lee was headed towards the public relations director has credited with having the idea to do this, but it was actually a book that rockefeller had read all the correspondence of amos lawrence, another character in the book. so there was this whole tradition of the shiny dimes. well, if you go to that site with to this day you will find people bring shiny dimes and leave them on the stairs, which i think is a marvelous tribute to something or other. [laughter] i t