Dear Editor-

The last thing the American people need is one more Mall-cluttering memorial construction commemorating yet another feature of our national story, no matter how worthy it might be. The nation's nobility begins to wear thin from our incessant self-congratulatroy infatuation. So I agree with Marshall Snyder who advocates a commemorative scholarship program to honor Dwight D. Eisenhower rather than "another pile of stones cluttering up" the District (Letters The Eisenhower memorial debate goes on March 21). The internet and our information age eliminates the need to tell our stories through stone, like Europe's medieval cathedrals conveying the gospel to the illiterate. We can do better than committing yet more untold public dollars to our unseemly perpetual self-worship. And I suspect that Mr. Eisenhower himself would undoubtedly agree.