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The memorial stands in West Potomac Park slightly off of Independence Avenue in a grove of trees. Authorized by an act of Congress on June 7, 1924, funds to construct the memorial were provided by the contributions of both organizations and individual citizens of the District. Construction of the memorial began in the spring of 1931, and the memorial was dedicated by President Herbert Hoover on November 11, 1931 (Armistice Day). It was the first war memorial to be erected in West Potomac Park, part of the National Mall near the Lincoln Memorial, and remains the only local District memorial on the National Mall.
Designed by Washington architect Frederick H. Brooke, with Horace W. Peaslee and Nathan C. Wyeth as associate architects, the District of Columbia War Memorial is in the form of a 47 foot (14.3 m) tall circular, domed, peristyle Doric temple. Resting on concrete foundations, the 4 foot (1.2 m) high marble base defines a platform, 43 feet 5 inches (13.2 m) in diameter, intended for use as a bandstand. Preserved in the cornerstone of the District of Columbia World War Memorial is a list of 26,000 Washingtonians who served in the Great War. Inscribed on the base are the names of the 499 District of Columbia citizens who lost their lives in the war, together with medallions representing the branches of the armed forces. Twelve 22 foot (6.7 m) tall fluted Doric marble columns support the entablature and dome.
In September 2008, Rep. Ted Poe of Texas, with the support of Frank Buckles, then the last living US veteran of World War I, proposed a bill in Congress stating the memorial should be expanded and designated the national memorial to World War I.[1][2][3]
In July 2010, the National Park Service announced that restoration work, funded by the federal stimulus package, would soon begin on the memorial.[4] Work began in October 2010,[5] and the memorial reopened on November 10, 2011.[6]
The memorial is administered by the National Park Service under its National Mall and Memorial Parks unit.
Civil war encampment at Greenfield Village.
All post-capture adjustments were made in Adobe Lightroom 2.
© Mark Rosa
U.S. President Lydon B. Johnson reviews troops assembled in honor of his visit to the U.S. base at Cam Ranh Bay in South Vietnam on Oct. 26, 1966 during the war. Beside the President is Gen. William Westmoreland, Commander of the U.S. Military forces in Vietnam. (AP Photo)
"This is Hollowed Sacred Ground"
New Athens, Illinois
Spelling is a minefield.
Some of us don't make it.
Civil War Reenactment.
My fascination with the history of the Civil War brings me to these events for a look & understanding at the sacrifices of those who so nobly fought & died.
The Korean War Veterans Memorial is located southeast of the Lincoln Memorial and just south of the Reflecting Pool on the National Mall. It commemorates those who served in the Korean War. By far I found this exhibit the most haunting war memorial.
Two U.S. military policemen aid a wounded fellow MP during fighting in the U.S. Embassy compound in Saigon, Jan. 31, 1968, at the beginning of the Tet Offensive. A Viet Cong suicide squad seized control of part of the compound and held it for about six hours before they were killed or captured. (AP Photo/Hong Seong-Chan)
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They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old, Age shall not weary them, nor the years contemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning, We will remember them.
Dedicated to all the lost ones in wars past & present
Taken on a visit to Santa Monica Beach , California ... thanks to James Marvin Phelps for a great day touring the west coast.
Part of my "War Paint" photo set.
The full photo shoot can be seen on my Facebook page: www.facebook.com/nkraftphoto
During the early 1980's the government of Guatemala dealt with their insurgent war by murding innocent civilians and leaving their bodies in the jungle. In this part of the jungle the men and boys of a small village had been taken out and shot by government troops. The war is over now and the country is a stable democracy.
Celtic cross with octagonal base; names are inscribed on the eight sides of the plinth, with the following inscribed below (clockwise):
TO THE GLORY OF GOD | AND IN MEMORY | OF THE ABOVE | MEN OF | THIS PARISH |WHO GAVE THEIR | LIVES IN THE | GREAT WAR
On the two steps below are the following inscriptions:
DECLARATION OF WAR AUG 4 1914 | ARMISTICE NOVEMBER 11 1918 | PEACE SIGNED JUNE 28 1919
LEST WE FORGET
The names:
William Robert Gosling -- Second Lieutenant William Robert Gosling, 2nd Bn., Wiltshire Regiment; died 21 March 1918, aged 25; awards: MM; name recorded on the Pozières Memorial, Somme, France (Panel 64.); husband of Edith Gosling, of 33, Thistleland, Little Bedwyn, Hungerford, Berks.: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1581567/GOSLING,%20WI...
Arthur William Hillier – Possibly: Lance Corporal A. W. Hillier (Service No: 17505), 1st Bn., Royal Berkshire Regiment; died 4 October 1916; buried in Euston Road Cemetery, Colincamps, Somme, France (I. C. 46.): www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/524860/HILLIER,%20A%20W
William Knight
Thomas Martin
William Palmer
Allan Frederick Shepherd, R.A.M.C. – Private Allan Frederick Shepherd (Service No: 38295), 55th Field Amb., Royal Army Medical Corps; died 12 October 1917, aged 24; buried in Cement House Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen (IX. D. 20.); son of Elizabeth Ann Shepherd, of 5, Bedwyn Common, Hungerford, and the late Mr. D. J. Shepherd: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/98092/SHEPHERD,%20ALL...
Renford Earle Oswald Stroud, 8th Welsh Regt. – Private R. E. O. Stroud (Service No: 27139), 8th Bn., Welsh Regiment; died 6 September 1915; buried in Alexandria (Chatby) Military and War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt (H. 14.): www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/109936/STROUD,%20R%20...
Henry Frank Whitbread, 5th Wilts Regt. – Corporal Henry Frank Whitbread (Service No: 9295), 5th Bn., Wiltshire Regiment; died 10 August 1915, aged 29; name recorded on the Helles Memorial, Turkey (Panel 156 to 158); son of Sydney and Hannah Whitbread, of Crabtree Cottages, Savernake Forest, Marlborough: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/684298/WHITBREAD,%20H...
An Elite is inspecting the new war machines. They will be used in the next battle.
The Covenant has failed in the first mission, now they must shine.
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An unseen war has started on my room
Cedri a fumetti: disegnatori dal Libano
a cura di Elettra Stamboulis e Gianluca Costantini
Mole Vanvitelliana, ANCONA
30 AGOSTO – 6 SETTEMBRE 2009
E sempre sul tema del confine e delle verità complesse, celate dove lo scontro diventa guerra, è centrata la mostra alla Mole Vanvitelliana, di cui Mirada cura la parte dedicata al fumetto.
Beirut – Sarajevo. La speranza di vivere include infatti la mostra dedicata ai fumettisti libanesi, Cedri a fumetti: disegnatori dal Libano, presentata per la prima volta in Italia al Festival Komikazen 2008 di Ravenna. Inaugura alle ore 18 di domenica 30 agosto.
L’autrice più rappresentativa è senza dubbio Zeina Abirached, nata a Beirut nel 1981 e spesso paragonata all’iraniana Marjane Satrapi. Con i disegni racconta la sua infanzia in una casa situata sulla “linea verde”, zona di demarcazione che tagliava in due la città di Beirut durante la guerra civile. Il gioco delle rondini, (pubblicato in Italia da Becco Giallo) è una raffinata prova narrativa di una giovane disegnatrice del Vicino Oriente racconta con delicatezza e disincanto una notte di guerra a Beirut durante la guerra civile. Oltre a Zeina, sono esposti i lavori di Mazen Kerbaj, noto in Italia per le sue storie pubblicate da Internazionale, il cui libro edito da l'Association in Francia ha riscosso un notevole successo, e inoltre Michèle Standjofski (giovane maestra di questa interessante generazione di narratori), Farah Nehmé Alba, Noura Badran, Ralph Doumit, Ghadi Ghosn, Lena Merhej.
Della Merhej sarà inoltre visibile l'animazione “Drawing the War” (Disegnando la guerra) con cui ha vinto nel 2003 il Premio Giuria del 36mo Exposition Festival di New York.
La sezione dedicata al fumetto libanese dà spazio ad una nuova scena di disegnatori, ironici, originali, fuori dagli schemi del mainstream, in grado di raccontare con la propria voce un luogo e un'identità facilmente preda dei pregiudizi e delle etichette preconfezionate.
La mostra di Ancona è però un percorso articolato in modo più ampio da sezioni curate direttamente dal Festival Adriatico Mediterraneo e da Piero del Giudice (per la parte dedicata a Sarajevo).
Fotografica è la rappresentazione della dura realtà dei campi profughi palestinesi in Libano.
Le fotografie sono il frutto di un lavoro realizzato nel campo di Mar Elias nel cuore della capitale libanese Beirut, cui hanno collaborato alcuni giornalisti e fotografi italiani, quali Patrizio Esposito e Mario Boccia, che hanno conosciuto la realtà dell’esilio palestinese durante varie permanenze, a partire dal 2000.
Sarajevo è raccontata dalle fotografie di Danilo Krstanovic, importante fotoreporter, sarajevese, che ha documentato le tragedie e i mutamenti della sua città, come corrispondente della Reuter, sui maggiori quotidiani del mondo.
Il percorso prosegue con le opere di Edin Numankadic, uno dei principali artisti di Sarajevo. Le sue tele sono come pietre che recano incise iscrizioni: parole e frasi per un linguaggio del gesto, una coreografia di segni. Alle tele si accompagna una selezione delle sue “scatole della memoria”, contenitori di storie per sopravvivere. È fondatore del gruppo artistico Spazio-Forma.
Ha esposto le sue opere in ogni parte del mondo, sia con mostre personali che collettive. Per due volte (nel 1993 e nel 2003) ha rappresentato la Bosnia-Erzegovina alla Biennale di Arte Contemporanea di Venezia, con il progetto “Witness of Existence”.
Water Wars is a timely and darkly funny exploration of what happens between neighbours as the drought gets longer and tougher and then gets renamed as a ‘dry’.
The final stage of the Regional Arts Fund funded creative development, a reading in front of an invited audience, took place at the Merivale Street Studio, South Brisbane on Friday 3 December 2010.
The team involved in the development and this reading
Writer: Elaine Acworth
Executive producer: Nicholas O’Donnell
Director: Shaun Charles
Designer: Greg Clark
Lighting design: David Walters
Dramaturg: Kathryn Kelly
Actor: Jess Veumann Betts (Berenice)
Actor: Eugene Gilfedder (Tom, Bob, Reg)
Actor: Allana Noyce (Mrs P.)
Actor: Kathryn Marquet (Gally)
Actor: Angus Blackman (Cal)
Secondment - directing: Sita Borhani
The invited audience included:
Wesley Enoch, Artistic Director Queensland Theatre Company
Professor Michael Balfour, Head of Applied Theatre, Griffith University
Lewis Jones, Artistic Director, Empire Theatre
Shari Irwin, Program Manager, La Boite Theatre
Jacquie Noyce
The creative development of Water Wars has been proudly supported by the Federal Government's Regional Arts Fund.
Riot police block path of hundreds of anti-government demonstrators who sought to parade from suburban Saigon to the city center on Thursday, Oct. 31, 1974. (AP Photo)
Ex-POW and U.S. Navy CPT Ernest Milvin Moore Jr., (Captured 11 Mar 67) talks to some of the children who came to the flight line to say goodbye as he leaves for the United States. CPT Moore was released in Hanoi by North Vietnam on 4 Mar 73.
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...well, part of it anyway. I took a 15 mile round trip hike to Bench Lake and the last mile was an 850 feet elevation gain. The trail, if you could call it that, was not easily distinguishable and at times I know I was on a trail that had more traffic from four legged creatures than the two legged variety. At one point I came across a skeleton of an elk and exactly on the other side of the "trail" was another set of bones of another elk.
War Dance Falls is a beautiful, hard to get to place but well worth it. There are many tumbles, cascades and falls on the way up to the lake and that makes it kinda hard to tell exactly where the actual falls are.