War and Remembrance (not the book)

Meant to put this in my other blog. Don't know exactly how it ended up in sports...

I was reading an article in yesterday's Der Spiegel online, Haunting War Cemeteries Send Powerful Message about the World War I memorials and cemeteries in Europe. It almost made me cry.
How are we going to remember this war in 90 years?
I've visited Arlington and other federal and military cemeteries. They're impressive.
The much smaller military graveyard in Utah at Fort Douglas is a beautiful, contemplative place. POWs from both World War I and World War II are buried and in the southwest corner of the cemetery there is a monument to the WWI POWs. But the later gravestones are flat to the ground, just like most cemeteries. (Looks like I'll have to find (or retake) and add my own photos since I can't seem to come up with any web links for pictures of the cemetery. Look for those here maybe next week.)
But how will we remember any other wars 89 years after they've ended? There are not weirdly beautiful, quiet lines of headstones on the land where the battles were fought. Places that make anyone with the least bit of religion in them mutter a prayer of some sort. Dead combatants are taken home and buried in their family plots away from their brothers and increasingly sisters in arms.
I can look at the lists of war dead and tend to think "my that's a lot of names." I look at even photos of the battlefield cemeteries from the U.S. Civil War or WWI and think "that's a lot of people." There so much difference between names and people.
So I go to City Cemetery or Mt. Olivet, both old and peaceful places, or any other cemetery here in Salt Lake and know there are veterans and people who died in battle buried there, but except on Memorial or Veterans' Days when flags are placed on the graves how do I know where to look for them?
There is no large plot which forces me to contemplate the horror of modern war in my little city.
More than military cemeteries, which I know there are plenty of, each war needs well maintained battlefield graveyards to show us, in a way we cannot ignore, how many people have died in the name of whatever is being fought for this week.