Public Memory, critical frame?

The past week or so, having jumped back into this paper, I've been having some issues organizing my thoughts. I have so many ideas and issues running around in my head, that all that comes out is blubber. My office mates can attest that I've been acting strangely, standing on desks and creating crazy post-it collages in an attempt to get some of the basic themes out of my head. They may worry for my sanity (of course, it's November and sanity is relative here, at this time, it seems), but to some extent it's been helpful. Of course, much this probably should have simply been posted here so I have some help untangling my thoughts. But now, to move onto the part I really enjoy and see as a driving force of my paper, Public Memory. After the jump, I pull out some of the concepts about Public Memory and apply them to this situation. This is not a literature review, but I see integrating that into this structure a possibility. I've left in many of my questions (sorry for the distracting parenthetical), perhaps you, my lovely readers, can help me answer them.

UPDATE: WED MORNING, This rough couple of pages is missing an introduction, the first section (rhet and pm), and all semblance of citations. I also trail off towards the end, but this is as far as it's getting today. I shall update soon. Forgive me if this causes any confusion. Still willing to hear comments on my *cough* working draft.