What are the Best Military Monuments that You've Seen? Share a Picture?

The Victory Monument at Yorktown VA is beautiful...a figure of Liberty atop an 84-foot granite column. Built to honor the American and French soldiers and sailors who won the decisive victory against British forces under Lord Cornwallis. I live about 5 miles away, so I see this beautiful monument quite often.

The Lone Sailor Memorial at Vista Point, Sausalito, CA.
The plaque at the steps of the Memorial reads: “The Lone Sailor – This is a Memorial to everyone who ever sailed out the Golden Gate in the Service of their Country – in the Navy, the Marine Corps, the Coast Guard, the Merchant Marine.

A ship heading for sea passes directly by this spot at the northern end of the Golden Gate. Here the Sailor feels the first long roll of the sea, the beginning of the endless horizon that leads to the Far Pacific.

There is one last chance to look back at the City of San Francisco, shining on its hills, one last chance to look back at the coastline of the United States, one last chance to look back at home.

Thousands and thousands of American Seafarers have sailed past this place, in peace and war, to defend this Country and its sea frontiers. Many of them never returned. This Monument is dedicated to the ordinary Sailors and Marines who sailed from this place and did their duty.”

Fallen EOD Warrior memorial

George S. Patton statue at the USMA.

This monument resides at Gettysburg. I'm not a Mason, but there are many tombs of unknowns here. All I could do was reflect and cry for all the blood that was shed for this Nation.

Where it call began! Cousin Captain John Parker monument at Lexington Green.

Tennessee monument, Shiloh National Battlefield.

I had the honor of having the quote from Pericles I suggested engraved on the front of this monument at Rose Barracks in Vilseck, Germany. It is a memorial to the fallen Dragoons of the 2d Cavalry Regiment from the Gulf War. Unfortunately the monument was destroyed recently (August 2017, pictures 2-3) during a freak storm. The last photo from July 2011 shows me on the left with the father of the fallen trooper who's name is the first one above our heads. He was the first 2d Dragoon killed in Afghanistan and I attended his funeral one year almost to the day prior to that picture being taken.

This is a monument from a allies concentration camps for axis P.O.W.'s during WW 2. for years only locals knew their was ever a concentration camp in the area there are three building that still stand, two guard shacks, and a tower, most of the other buildings were re-purposed by the people that purchased the land. it about 7 miles from my home, in a little Oklahoma town called Tonkawa on a side road north of highway 60, to the east to a transformer recycling center.

I have seen several monuments thru out my life. Pearl Harbor with both the Arizona Memorial and the Missiouri, the start and the finish of WWII. I have also seen the monuments in Solomon Islands for both the Americans and the Japanese and I was moved and thankful for the men and women who served both in Europe and the Pacific.
When I was stationed overseas in West Germany, they took us to the border facing either East Germany or Czech. We have to put our hands behind our back. We could not point at something in the distance because it could be said that it would be a international incident. I saw the land across the border and was thankful that I was free.
I am from Mobile, AL, 2 items I would still visit, the fort on Dauphin Island and the USS Alabama, WWII battleship. We need to remember our history, both good and bad or we will forget.