It is easy to look at an object and research the history of why it is what it is and why the artist chose to diplay it in the manner that he/she used. I think the hard part is figuring what it means to you and doing something useful with it. These particular doors stand out to me more that any other feature of the Indiana War Memorial. The building its self was modeled after the Tomb of King Mausolus. The designers Frank Ray Walker (1877-1949) and Harry F. Weeks (1871-1935) of the Walker and Weeks architecture firm were commissioned by the state of indiana on behalf of the American Legion to design a war memorial plaza in order to convince the American Legion to relocate its headquarters to indanapolis, IN. I say all of that to say that in order to convince a brotherhood of soldiers to relocate their headquarters you would have to embody the principles that are close to home for in your design. The words and all of the inlay and other ornamintation most likely did not just find its way into the sketch pad of the architect just because he thought it would be cute. Spirit, Light, Life, and Truth. It's funny how principles like these are so abstract that we can seldom explain them without going into some mindless never ending rant. When I see these things words on a building I see four things that are worthy of fighting for. Four things that these soldiers may not have even contemplated as they were on the battlefield. I think that what ever race, color, or creed you belong to it is worth a moment of silence to think about what these four words mean to you. It may not even be that we have truly arrived in a society that these for things are even a reality. But at the very least someone fought and died in order to get us one step closer to these four things that every human being wants. The right to experience the desires of ones SPIRIT. The LIGHT and wisdom to go about the pursuit of grasping that witch is in your SPIRIT. The right to live a LIFE that one truly desires to live in her/his SPIRIT and the right to the acquisition of the LIGHT to guide one through that journey effectively, which includes the education and training of ones choosing. And finally the right to exercise whatever version or the TRUTH that you find in fitting for your journey, whatever spiritual tradition you may choose including the decision not to have a spiritual tradition and work off of the inquisitiveness of ones own findings.