The trend in modern era memorials is to tell the "story" the organizers, backers and "artist" (in this case an architect) want to tell rather than honor the man himself.
Not only do these "book on the wall" style memorials become overly large, cumbersome and disjointed, like everything else today, the simple task of honoring a great man is seen as a chance by various interests to piggyback their agenda on to the design of the memorial to further their own goals - usually social and political.
Recall what happened at the Smithsonian with the display of the Enola Gay. It was hijacked by one-worlders and revisionist historians in an attempt to use it to tell their politically correct version of the events surrounding the use of atomic bombs to end WWII in the Pacific.
I just heard on FNC that the architect is a self described atheist and socialist.