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The tradition of lighting a flame in honour of fallen soldiers has existed since ancient times. In more recent memory, the first eternal flame was lit in 1923 at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. Later, eternal flame memorials appeared in Belgium, Portugal, Romania, and the Czech Republic.

On 8 May 1967, the eternal flame in memory of those killed in the Great Patriotic War was lit in the Alexander Gardens near the Kremlin wall in Moscow.

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Die Tradition, ein Feuer zu Ehren der gefallenen Kämpfer zu entzünden, geht auf die Antike zurück. In neuerer Zeit wurde das erste Ewige Feuer 1923 am Arc de Triomphe in Paris eingerichtet. Danach entstanden Gedenkstätten mit dem Ewigen Feuer in Belgien, Portugal, Rumänien und Tschechien.

Am 8. Mai 1967 wurde das Ewige Feuer zum Gedenken an die Gefallenen im Großen Vaterländischen Krieg im Alexandergarten an der Kremlmauer in Moskau entflammt.

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Традиция зажигать огонь в честь погибших воинов родилась еще в древности. В новейшее время первый мемориальный Вечный огонь был зажжен в 1923 году у Триумфальной арки в Париже. Затем мемориалы с Вечным огнем появились в Бельгии, Португалии, Румынии, Чехии.

Первый вечный огонь в СССР загорится в октябре 1957 года в Ленинграде на Марсовом поле у памятника "Борцам революции". Вечный огонь на Марсовом поле станет источником пламени для большинства воинских мемориалов, открытых в городах-героях СССР.

8 мая 1967 года Вечный огонь в память о павших в Великой Отечественной войне будет зажжен в Александровском саду у Кремлевской стены в Москве.

Photo: Andrew Peacock

President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was shot and killed on November 22, 1963 while on a campaign trip in Dallas Texas. He received a state funeral with a Roman Catholic ceremony performed by the Archbishop of Boston, Richard Cardinal Cushing, at Arlington National Cemetery on November 25, 1963. On Dec. 4, 1963, the two deceased Kennedy children were reburied in Arlington, Patrick Bouvier Kennedy from Brookline — who had predeceased JFK by 15 weeks — and an unnamed stillborn daughter from Newport, R.I. On May 23, 1994, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis was buried next to President Kennedy. The gravesite was completed with addition of her grave marker Oct. 6, 1994.

It was originally expected that Kennedy would be buried near Brookline, Massachusetts. However his widow, Jacqueline Kennedy's wishes were stated simply, "He belongs to the people," and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara arranged for a plot on federal property at Arlington National cemetery. Three plots were initially considered: one near the mast of the USS Maine, one at Dewey Circle, and the third on the slope below Arlington House. The president's brother, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, found the "Maine" location inappropriate and the "Dewey" location inaccessible; however, he believed that the slope below Arlington House was ideal.

The initial plot was 20 feet by 30 feet and was surrounded by a white picket fence. During the first year often more than 3,000 people an hour visited the Kennedy gravesite, and on weekends an estimated 50,000 people visited. Three years after Kennedy's death, more than 16 million people had come to visit the Kennedy plot. Crowds necessitated a more suitable site, and John Warnecke and Associates completed the new site on July 20, 1967. The grave area is paved with irregular stones of Cape Cod granite, which were quarried around 1817 near the site of the president's home and selected by members of his family. Clover, and later, sedum were planted in the crevices to give the appearance of stones lying naturally in a Massachusetts field.

Lighted by Mrs. Kennedy during the funeral, the Eternal Flame burns from the center of a five-foot circular flat-granite stone at the head of the grave. The burner is a specially designed apparatus created by the Institute of Gas Technology of Chicago. A constantly flashing electric spark near the tip of the nozzle relights the gas should the flame be extinguished by rain, wind or accident. The fuel is natural gas and is mixed with a controlled quantity of air to achieve the color and shape of the flame.

John Fitzgerald, also referred to as John F. Kennedy, JFK, John Kennedy or Jack Kennedy, was the 35th President of the United States. In 1960 he became the youngest man ever elected president of the United States. He served from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. The Bay of Pigs Invasion, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the building of the Berlin Wall, the Space Race, the American Civil Rights Movement and early events of the Vietnam War took place during his presidency.

Arlington National Cemetery, a military cemetery directly across the Potomac from Washington, D.c., was established during the Civil War on the grounds of the Arlington House, formerly the estate of the family of Robert E. Lee's wife Mary Anna (Custis) Lee, a descendant of Martha Washington. By 1864, the military cemeteries of Washington and Alexandria were filled with Union dead. After Quartermaster General Montgomery C. Meigs quickly selected Arlington as a replacement, in part to prevent the Lee's from ever returning, the government confiscated the land claiming unpaid property taxes. Today, more than 300,000 people, including veterans and military casualties from every one of the nation's wars, are interred in the 624-acre cemetery administered by the Department of the Navy.

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i wish it was sunday

cuz that's my fun-day

biatches!

ok, i'm back... gonna take me some time to catch up... and then i'm gonna be gone again. sorry, that's just how I roll. so, hopefully i will hit up your lovely streams sometime tonight, tomorrow, or wednesday... otherwise it will have to wait until next monday or so... i'm heading out of town this weekend.

in case you were planning on robbing me, don't... Rick Astley will be protecting the barn. he's one bad-mutha-(shut you mouth)

oh, yeah... the picture. it's the Bangles... ok, it's Susanna Hoffs of The Bangles. I'll post some others of the band in a bit.

hope everyone's week got off to a Rocking Start!

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Change of Guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier outside the walls of the Kremlin in Moscow Russia

The ruined building in the background is the Hiroshima Peace Memorial which stands just 150 m from Ground Zero, the point 600 m directly below the 6 August, 1945 explosion of the 'Little Boy' atomic bomb. The Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall remained standing because its columns were able to resist the near-vertical downward force of the 15 kiloton blast: a pressure of 35 t/m² and 440 m/s wind. However, all occupants died instantly and the building was gutted by fire.

Designed by Czech architect Jan Letzel and opened in 1915, the distinctively-domed Products Exhibition Hall hosted arts and educational exhibitions in the business district beside Aioibashi. That 'T'-shaped bridge over the Ōta River was used as the aiming point of the bomb, which missed by 240 m and detonated over Shima Hospital.

The Genbaku ('A-bomb') Dome was an anomalous landmark in the flattened cityscape, and rather than being demolished its skeleton was retained in the reconstruction of Hiroshima, as a memorial and focal point of the Peace Memorial Park laid out around it 1950–64. The ruin was stabilised in 1967 and 1989–90, but otherwise remains exactly as it was on the day. In 1996, the Genbaku Dome was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site, despite US opposition.

The primary features of the park are laid out on an axis linking the Genbaku Dome to the Peace Memorial Museum via a cenotaph and this flame, which has burned continously since 1 August ,1964. The intention is to only extinguish it when all nuclear weapons have been decommissioned, worldwide.

Designed by Tange Kenzo, the pedestal is a stylised depiction of hands with their palms upraised.

The building on the right of the background is the Hiroshima Orizuru Tower, its rooftop observation deck overlooking the park and the city skyline as far as Miyajima.

The eternal flame at the gravesite of President John F. Kennedy at Arlington National Cemetery.

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President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was shot and killed on November 22, 1963 while on a campaign trip in Dallas Texas. He received a state funeral with a Roman Catholic ceremony performed by the Archbishop of Boston, Richard Cardinal Cushing, at Arlington National Cemetery on November 25, 1963. On Dec. 4, 1963, the two deceased Kennedy children were reburied in Arlington, Patrick Bouvier Kennedy from Brookline — who had predeceased JFK by 15 weeks — and an unnamed stillborn daughter from Newport, R.I. On May 23, 1994, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis was buried next to President Kennedy. The gravesite was completed with addition of her grave marker Oct. 6, 1994.

It was originally expected that Kennedy would be buried near Brookline, Massachusetts. However his widow, Jacqueline Kennedy's wishes were stated simply, "He belongs to the people," and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara arranged for a plot on federal property at Arlington National cemetery. Three plots were initially considered: one near the mast of the USS Maine, one at Dewey Circle, and the third on the slope below Arlington House. The president's brother, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, found the "Maine" location inappropriate and the "Dewey" location inaccessible; however, he believed that the slope below Arlington House was ideal.

The initial plot was 20 feet by 30 feet and was surrounded by a white picket fence. During the first year often more than 3,000 people an hour visited the Kennedy gravesite, and on weekends an estimated 50,000 people visited. Three years after Kennedy's death, more than 16 million people had come to visit the Kennedy plot. Crowds necessitated a more suitable site, and John Warnecke and Associates completed the new site on July 20, 1967. The grave area is paved with irregular stones of Cape Cod granite, which were quarried around 1817 near the site of the president's home and selected by members of his family. Clover, and later, sedum were planted in the crevices to give the appearance of stones lying naturally in a Massachusetts field.

Lighted by Mrs. Kennedy during the funeral, the Eternal Flame burns from the center of a five-foot circular flat-granite stone at the head of the grave. The burner is a specially designed apparatus created by the Institute of Gas Technology of Chicago. A constantly flashing electric spark near the tip of the nozzle relights the gas should the flame be extinguished by rain, wind or accident. The fuel is natural gas and is mixed with a controlled quantity of air to achieve the color and shape of the flame.

John Fitzgerald, also referred to as John F. Kennedy, JFK, John Kennedy or Jack Kennedy, was the 35th President of the United States. In 1960 he became the youngest man ever elected president of the United States. He served from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. The Bay of Pigs Invasion, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the building of the Berlin Wall, the Space Race, the American Civil Rights Movement and early events of the Vietnam War took place during his presidency.

Arlington National Cemetery, a military cemetery directly across the Potomac from Washington, D.c., was established during the Civil War on the grounds of the Arlington House, formerly the estate of the family of Robert E. Lee's wife Mary Anna (Custis) Lee, a descendant of Martha Washington. By 1864, the military cemeteries of Washington and Alexandria were filled with Union dead. After Quartermaster General Montgomery C. Meigs quickly selected Arlington as a replacement, in part to prevent the Lee's from ever returning, the government confiscated the land claiming unpaid property taxes. Today, more than 300,000 people, including veterans and military casualties from every one of the nation's wars, are interred in the 624-acre cemetery administered by the Department of the Navy.

President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was shot and killed on November 22, 1963 while on a campaign trip in Dallas Texas. He received a state funeral with a Roman Catholic ceremony performed by the Archbishop of Boston, Richard Cardinal Cushing, at Arlington National Cemetery on November 25, 1963. On Dec. 4, 1963, the two deceased Kennedy children were reburied in Arlington, Patrick Bouvier Kennedy from Brookline — who had predeceased JFK by 15 weeks — and an unnamed stillborn daughter from Newport, R.I. On May 23, 1994, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis was buried next to President Kennedy. The gravesite was completed with addition of her grave marker Oct. 6, 1994.

It was originally expected that Kennedy would be buried near Brookline, Massachusetts. However his widow, Jacqueline Kennedy's wishes were stated simply, "He belongs to the people," and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara arranged for a plot on federal property at Arlington National cemetery. Three plots were initially considered: one near the mast of the USS Maine, one at Dewey Circle, and the third on the slope below Arlington House. The president's brother, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, found the "Maine" location inappropriate and the "Dewey" location inaccessible; however, he believed that the slope below Arlington House was ideal.

The initial plot was 20 feet by 30 feet and was surrounded by a white picket fence. During the first year often more than 3,000 people an hour visited the Kennedy gravesite, and on weekends an estimated 50,000 people visited. Three years after Kennedy's death, more than 16 million people had come to visit the Kennedy plot. Crowds necessitated a more suitable site, and John Warnecke and Associates completed the new site on July 20, 1967. The grave area is paved with irregular stones of Cape Cod granite, which were quarried around 1817 near the site of the president's home and selected by members of his family. Clover, and later, sedum were planted in the crevices to give the appearance of stones lying naturally in a Massachusetts field.

Lighted by Mrs. Kennedy during the funeral, the Eternal Flame burns from the center of a five-foot circular flat-granite stone at the head of the grave. The burner is a specially designed apparatus created by the Institute of Gas Technology of Chicago. A constantly flashing electric spark near the tip of the nozzle relights the gas should the flame be extinguished by rain, wind or accident. The fuel is natural gas and is mixed with a controlled quantity of air to achieve the color and shape of the flame.

John Fitzgerald, also referred to as John F. Kennedy, JFK, John Kennedy or Jack Kennedy, was the 35th President of the United States. In 1960 he became the youngest man ever elected president of the United States. He served from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. The Bay of Pigs Invasion, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the building of the Berlin Wall, the Space Race, the American Civil Rights Movement and early events of the Vietnam War took place during his presidency.

Arlington National Cemetery, a military cemetery directly across the Potomac from Washington, D.c., was established during the Civil War on the grounds of the Arlington House, formerly the estate of the family of Robert E. Lee's wife Mary Anna (Custis) Lee, a descendant of Martha Washington. By 1864, the military cemeteries of Washington and Alexandria were filled with Union dead. After Quartermaster General Montgomery C. Meigs quickly selected Arlington as a replacement, in part to prevent the Lee's from ever returning, the government confiscated the land claiming unpaid property taxes. Today, more than 300,000 people, including veterans and military casualties from every one of the nation's wars, are interred in the 624-acre cemetery administered by the Department of the Navy.

L'escultura "The Sphere", de Fritz Koenig, va pasar de ser unicament una escultura al mig d'una gran plaça moderna entre les dues Torres Bessones, a ser el monument provisional a les victimes del 11-S. Tot i que es va trobar al mig d'aquell infern, en va sortir prou sencera.

Com podeu veure pel titol, aquesta foto té diverses interpretacions...

Ara es troba a Battery Park, a només uns 500 metres d'on estava al WTC.

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The Sphere was just a modern art sculpture by Fritz Koenig, placed in the middle of the WTC complex. Till that 2001 day. Buried in debris after 9/11, it survived quite in one piece (considering all the destruction arround it), and now it's a provisional memorial to the victims of 9/11. It's located in Battery Park.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sphere

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Trade_Center

View On Black

Tomb of the Unknown Soldier outside the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia

Hiking back from Eternal Flame falls I did something I have never done here, I explored the ridge opposite the falls.

The gorge walls are very steep -- it would be a 40 foot or more drop to the bottom if I slipped, and it was raining so I had to be careful.

But I was rewarded with this far away shot of the flame between the trees. See the next photo for a "full frontal" shot of Eternal Flame Falls.

Can you see the water through the trees?

ARLINGTON, Va. -- Secretary of the Army John McHugh transfers the JFK Eternal Flame back to its permanent location on Oct. 29, 2013, after repair work to the site was completed. The flame underwent a full replacement of gas and airlines, received new digital controls and sensors, as well as a new burner assembly. (U.S. Army photo/Patrick Bloodgood)

An eternal flame at a war memorial symbolizes a nation's perpetual gratitude towards, and remembrance of, its war dead.

I'm not sure I want to ruin this moment with lots of commentary. Yes, that is a natural gas flame in that waterfall!

Praise God for nature and giving us the opportunity to enjoy it.

I think that's got it...

The War Memorial with its "Eternal Flame" behind the Kremlin. WW2 was known to the Soviets as "The Great Patriotic War" (1941-1945). Taken on a "cultural" after return to Moscow from an inspection, prior to flying back to UK the next day.

Washington Square, Philadelphia

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Change of Guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier outside the walls of the Kremlin in Moscow Russia

The tomb of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and his wife, Coretta Scott King, is located in a plaza nestled next to the King Center as part of the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site.

After his assassination in Memphis by James Early Ray in April, 1968, Dr. King's body was brought home to Atlanta and laid to rest at South-View Cemetery. In 1970, his widow had his body moved to a new tomb on a cleared lot east of Ebenezer Baptist Church, where Dr. King preached. She had the tomb faced with Georgia marble to "acknowledge his southern roots." In 1976, African America architect J. Max Bond, Jr., designed a memorial park around the tomb. The brick and concrete plaza was surrounded by an arch-covered walkway, and the crypt was placed on raised pedestal and surrounded by a reflecting pool. An eternal flame was added in 1977,

Mrs. Coretta Scott King died from a stroke and complications from ovarian cancer in January 2006. After a matching sarcophagus was constructed, she was interred next to her husband on February 7, 2006.

The Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change, 449 Auburn Avenue, was started by Coretta Scott King in the basement of the couple’s home in 1969, a year her husband’s assassination. In 1981, the center moved into Freedom Hall, a multimillion dollar facility at 499 Auburn Avenue, designed by Bond and Ryder. The Grand Foyer includes quotation posters bearing Dr. King’s image and words and a range of permanent and temporary exhibits, including “Freedom and Justice,” a relief sculpture presented to The King Center by Kenneth Kaunda, President of Zambia on behalf of the people of Zambia. The second floor houses a Dr. and Mrs. Martin Luther King, Jr. Exhibit, the Rosa Parks Room, the Gandhi Room, and a replica of the Nobel Prize for Peace.

The Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site, an area of about 2 blocks around Auburn Avenue, was established by the National Park Service (NPS) on October 10, 1980. The historic site includes King's gravesite; the historic Fire Station No. 6; the "I Have a Dream" International World Peace Rose Garden; and the International Civil Rights Walk of Fame.

The Martin Luther King, Jr. Historic District, an area bound roughly by Irwin, Randolph, Edgewood, and Auburn Avenues, was established in 1974 and later, in 1977 designated a national historic landmark, and expanded in 2001. The district encompasses the environs in which Martin Luther King, Jr., grew up from his birth in 1929 until he left Atlanta.

Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site and Preservation District National Register #80000435 (1980)

Martin Luther King, Jr. Historic District National Register #74000677 (1974)

The eternal flame and commemorative plaque for President John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963) and his wife, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis (1929-1994), at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.

John F Kennedy, often referred to by his initials JFK, was the 35th President of the United States and the youngest elected to hold the office, serving from 1961 until his assassination in Dallas on 22 November 1963. He was buried on 26 November 1963.

Despite his short time in office, JFK put his stamp on US and world politics like few other Presidents. He faced off Soviet Russia over the Cuban Missile Crisis, he gave his famous "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech in defense of democracy from the newly built Berlin Wall, he laid the foundation for the Civil Rights Act of 1964, that would outlaw racial segregation in schools and at the workplaces, and he launced the US Space program that would see Man land on the moon:

First, I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him back safely to the Earth. No single space project in this period will be more impressive to mankind, or more important for the long-range exploration of space; and none will be so difficult or expensive to accomplish.

- JFK in Congress, 25 May 1961

The Eternal Flame at the gravesite of President John F. Kennedy.

U.S. Army Photo by Sgt. Laura Buchta

Brest Fortress, one of the biggest Second World War memorials in the ex- Soviet Union, in Brest, Belarus. The communist symbols are all around Belarus and the soviet past is still revered.

Могила Неизвестного Солдата. 2017.

The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier; Kremlin Honor Guards. November 2017.

Raj Ghat (Hindi: राज घाट) is a memorial to Mahatma Gandhi. Originally it was the name of a historic ghat of Old Delhi (Shahjahanabad) on the banks of Yamuna river. Close to it, and east of Daryaganj was “Raj Ghat Gate” of the walled city, opening at Raj Ghat on Yamuna River. Later the memorial area was also called Raj ghat. It is a black marble platform that marks the spot of Mahatma Gandhi's cremation, Antyesti (Antim Sanskar) on 31 January 1948, a day after his assassination. It is left open to the sky while an eternal flame burns perpetually at one end. It is located on the banks of the river Yamuna in Delhi in India on Ring Road officially known as Mahatma Gandhi Road. A stone footpath flanked by lawns leads to the walled enclosure that houses the memorial. All guests must remove their shoes before entering the Raj Ghat walls.

Today, the Rajghat attracts about 10,000 visitors a day and is a requisite stop for visiting foreign leaders, regardless of political ideology.

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United Center - Chicago Illinois. The Chicago Blackhawks are playing the Nashville Predators in this hockey game.

Is this burning an eternal flame ..??

The wreath laid on the behalf of the veterans taking part of a VetsRoll trip to Washington, D.C., sits near the eternal flame at the President John Fitzgerald Kennedy Gravesite in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va., May 19, 2015. The honor flight had around 200 veterans for the trip. (U.S. Army photo by Rachel Larue/released)

Moscow Kremlin. Московский кремль

Eternal Flame near Unknown soldier monument

Монумент и вечный огонь у могилы Неизвестного солдата

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Flame of Remembrance at the Australian War Memorial.

The Australian War Memorial in Canberra is a sandstone building with a copper-clad dome, said to be in a Byzantine architecture style with strong styling elements of Art Deco throughout. It houses selections from a vast national collection of war relics, official and private records. Art, photographs, film, and sound are employed to relate the story of the Australian nation's experience in world wars, regional conflicts, and international peacekeeping.

The Memorial forms the core of the nation's tribute to the sacrifice and achievement of the more than 102,000 Australian men and women who died serving their country, and to all those who served overseas and at home. A central commemorative area flanked by arched cloisters houses the names of the fallen on the bronze panels of the Roll of Honour. At the head of the Pool of Reflection, beyond the Flame of Remembrance, stands the towering Hall of Memory, with its interior wall and high dome clad in a six-million-piece mosaic and illuminated by striking stained-glass windows. Inside lies the Tomb of the Unknown Australian Soldier, a symbolic national shrine.

Two men, above all others, shaped the Memorial: Charles Bean, who became Australia's Official Historian of the First World War, and John Treloar, the Director of the Memorial between 1920 and 1952.

After the First World War, it took a long time before the Memorial's building in Canberra was constructed. Initially there were delays in arousing public and government enthusiasm. Then the financial crash and the subsequent Great Depression intervened. In the meantime large, long-running exhibitions were held in Melbourne and Sydney. The Australian War Museum opened on Anzac Day 1922 in the Exhibition Building, Melbourne. This exhibition of war relics was enthusiastically received by press and public, and attracted large crowds. The exhibition closed in 1925 and was moved to Sydney, where it remained until 1935.

The Memorial's design was a compromise between the desire for an impressive monument to the fallen and a budget of only £250,000. A joint design by Sydney architects Emil Sodersteen and John Crust was accepted and forms the basis of the building we see today, which was completed and opened to the public on Remembrance Day, 11 November, in 1941.

Summary of information provided by the Australian War Memorial.

Shrine of Memory. At the south end of the Virginia War Memorial's Shrine of Memory stands a 23-foot marble statue of a woman, titled Memory, intended to reflect both sorrow and pride regarding those lost in battle during World War II and later wars; an eternal flame burns at her feet. When built in 1955, the Virginia War Memorial listed on the walls (glass to the east, marble and glass to the west) the names of Virginians killed in action (numbers in parentheses) in World War II (9,398) and Korea (850); those killed in action in Vietnam (1,379) were added in a 1981 addition to the north, while those killed in the Persion Gulf (7) were added in 1996. A more recent addition, extending back from the NE corner of the Shrine of Memory, is the Paul & Phyllis Galanti Education Center, whose offerings include museum displays and films. The War Memorial sits on Gambles Hill, between Belvidere Street (US 1 & 301) and 2nd Street, a short distance north of the James River; at the foot of Gambles Hill are the west end of the Richmond Canal Walk and the Civil War Center at the old Tredegar Iron Works. The buildings in the distance behind Memory are on the opposite side of the river.

Although the War Memorial is located in Richmond, I had not stopped to see it in recent years, until I visited it in a long while until yesterday, when I met Flickr friend Tim Carrier (tcpix) there at the start of several hours of shooting. Unfortunately, the weather was dreary -- not inappropriate for this subject. The lists of names on the walls show up better when this is viewed in the light box. The next photo shows a portion of the Richmond skyline, through part of the World War II list of names.

On September 11, 2001, terrorists hijacked four planes. Two were flown into the World Trade Center Towers, leading to their collapse. One was flown into the Pentagon. The other crashed in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

An eternal flame burns in memory of those who perished on 9/11 and specifically for Melissa Harrington Hughes, a West Springfield native who died in the attack on the World Trade Center.

West Springfield 9/11 Memorial - West Springfield Town Common in West Springfield, Massachusetts - Google Map

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This is located on the traffic Island at the junction of Amiens Street and Memorial Road, close to Busáras and The Customs House.

Making a guess I would say that most people drive or walk by this without being aware that it is a sculpture which is a pity. It is known as ’Universal Links on Human Rights’ and it is a memorial in the form of a sphere of welded interlinked chains and bars. It is 260cm in diameter and it contains eternal flame powered by natural gas from Kinsale.

This sculpture was commissioned by Amnesty International in 1995. It represents the jails around the world holding prisoners of conscience.

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See the note marking the flame this waterfall gets its name from. Escaping natural gas makes this wonder happen - flame burning in the middle of a waterfall, a clash of elements.

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ARLINGTON, Va –The President John F. Kennedy Eternal Flame at Arlington National Cemetery burns brightly before contractors install white fencing to block the public’s view of the site April 29, 2013. Repairs and upgrades to the flame include installing burners, an igniter, and new gas and air lines. Contractors estimate that work on the burner itself will take three weeks. (U.S. Army photo/Patrick Bloodgood)

The eternal flame at the John F. Kennedy grave site in Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington County, Virginia, in the United States on May 30, 2013. The flame was completely replaced and an upgraded nozzle, flame monitoring system, re-ignition mechanism, gas control system, and fire suppression system installed during May 2013. The new flame is much more energy efficient, brighter, and better able to withstand wind and rain.

Могила Неизвестного Солдата. 2017.

The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier; Kremlin Honor Guards. November 2017.

Change of Guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier outside the walls of the Kremlin in Moscow Russia

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Change of Guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier outside the walls of the Kremlin in Moscow Russia

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The tradition of lighting a flame in honour of fallen soldiers has existed since ancient times. In more recent memory, the first eternal flame was lit in 1923 at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. Later, eternal flame memorials appeared in Belgium, Portugal, Romania, and the Czech Republic.

On 8 May 1967, the eternal flame in memory of those killed in the Great Patriotic War was lit in the Alexander Gardens near the Kremlin wall in Moscow.

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Die Tradition, ein Feuer zu Ehren der gefallenen Kämpfer zu entzünden, geht auf die Antike zurück. In neuerer Zeit wurde das erste Ewige Feuer 1923 am Arc de Triomphe in Paris eingerichtet. Danach entstanden Gedenkstätten mit dem Ewigen Feuer in Belgien, Portugal, Rumänien und Tschechien.

Am 8. Mai 1967 wurde das Ewige Feuer zum Gedenken an die Gefallenen im Großen Vaterländischen Krieg im Alexandergarten an der Kremlmauer in Moskau entflammt.

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Традиция зажигать огонь в честь погибших воинов родилась еще в древности. В новейшее время первый мемориальный Вечный огонь был зажжен в 1923 году у Триумфальной арки в Париже. Затем мемориалы с Вечным огнем появились в Бельгии, Португалии, Румынии, Чехии.

Первый вечный огонь в СССР загорится в октябре 1957 года в Ленинграде на Марсовом поле у памятника "Борцам революции". Вечный огонь на Марсовом поле станет источником пламени для большинства воинских мемориалов, открытых в городах-героях СССР.

8 мая 1967 года Вечный огонь в память о павших в Великой Отечественной войне будет зажжен в Александровском саду у Кремлевской стены в Москве.