Posted on Feb 6, 2016
What are the Best Military Monuments that You've Seen? Share a Picture?
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What are the Best Military Monuments that You've Seen and Share a Picture?
RP Members let's get some really good pictures of the best Military Monuments!
Here is a great one. The Above Picture is: New Mexico veterans memorial Albuquerque Vietnam War!
VETERANS TRIBUTE please take a moment when you see former or active service men or women thank them. I stand and salute all as " All gave some and some gave all. "
RP Members let's get some really good pictures of the best Military Monuments!
Here is a great one. The Above Picture is: New Mexico veterans memorial Albuquerque Vietnam War!
VETERANS TRIBUTE please take a moment when you see former or active service men or women thank them. I stand and salute all as " All gave some and some gave all. "
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Near Dauchau, Germany is the site of the Dauchau concentration camp. There you will find these plaques. Memorials to the men and women who either gave their lives in the war effort or were the liberators of the concentration camp.
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs
CPT (Join to see) I have been there and seen just about every monument across most of Europe when I was stationed in Belgium from 1977 to 1980. Unfortunately, I don't have any of the pictures because they were all kept by my x-wife. Not one pciture from that three period can I share - oh well. Thanks for sharing!
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs
SSG (Join to see) This has been a favorite of mine every since it was completed. Thanks for sharing. I owe you a vote up Felix!
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Thank you sir. That was my first time visiting it and enjoyed it a lot, it was something I've always wanted to do.
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SGT Philip Roncari
Thank you SSG Felix this is where I go every year to visit my brothers and remember that time in my life when I lived with heros
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The most impressive and memorable military monument I have physically seen is Trafalgar Square in London COL Mikel J. Burroughs which I have seen several times.
The most somber monument I have seen is the Vietnam Veterans Wall.
Spending four long years as a cadet at West Point I saw many monuments on a regular basis from the Revolutionary War through WWII with majority from the 19th century. The scenery there is beautiful and each monument serves to remind the thoughtful of heroic acts from times gone by.
Each of civil war battlefields from Gettysburg, through Antietam to Fredericksburg which has a cemetery and monuments to the regiments which fought there impacts me whenever I see it. As an infantryman with a good imagination the fact that men walked into withering fire from 60 caliber bullets and cannonballs and grapeshot at times gives me pause to remember what they were fighting for. Unity of government, freedom for all men, and most dear to their hearts there fellow soldiers.
The most somber monument I have seen is the Vietnam Veterans Wall.
Spending four long years as a cadet at West Point I saw many monuments on a regular basis from the Revolutionary War through WWII with majority from the 19th century. The scenery there is beautiful and each monument serves to remind the thoughtful of heroic acts from times gone by.
Each of civil war battlefields from Gettysburg, through Antietam to Fredericksburg which has a cemetery and monuments to the regiments which fought there impacts me whenever I see it. As an infantryman with a good imagination the fact that men walked into withering fire from 60 caliber bullets and cannonballs and grapeshot at times gives me pause to remember what they were fighting for. Unity of government, freedom for all men, and most dear to their hearts there fellow soldiers.
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs
LTC Stephen F. Ihave frequented most of the Civil War monuments and memorials as well and they are very sobering to say the least! There are so many - thanks for sharing your thoughts - do you have a picture of the one you mentioned above?
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"Unconditional surrender" This 26ft tall statue is located in Sarasota, FL.. It was commissioned to celebrate the unconditional surrender of Japan at the end of World War II on V-J Day.
“The presence of this sculpture prompts viewers to never forget the “Greatest Generation” or the day when they demonstrated their unity — Aug. 14, 1945,” a plaque on the site says.
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“The presence of this sculpture prompts viewers to never forget the “Greatest Generation” or the day when they demonstrated their unity — Aug. 14, 1945,” a plaque on the site says.
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CPT (Join to see) This is an awesome monument - thanks for sharing this one. Very cool!
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LTC Stephen C.
Sorry I just saw this CPT (Join to see) and COL Mikel J. Burroughs! The statue was made from a famous WWII photograph taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt. Here's the story from Wikipedia:
"Eisenstaedt's most famous photograph is of an American sailor grabbing and kissing a stranger—a young woman—on August 14, 1945 in Times Square. He took this photograph using a Leica IIIa. (The photograph is known under various names: V-J Day in Times Square, V-Day, etc. Because Eisenstaedt was photographing rapidly changing events during the V-J Day celebrations, he stated that he didn't get a chance to obtain names and details, which has encouraged a number of mutually incompatible claims to the identity of the subjects." GySgt Melissa Gravila Wanda Afualo-Carey
"Eisenstaedt's most famous photograph is of an American sailor grabbing and kissing a stranger—a young woman—on August 14, 1945 in Times Square. He took this photograph using a Leica IIIa. (The photograph is known under various names: V-J Day in Times Square, V-Day, etc. Because Eisenstaedt was photographing rapidly changing events during the V-J Day celebrations, he stated that he didn't get a chance to obtain names and details, which has encouraged a number of mutually incompatible claims to the identity of the subjects." GySgt Melissa Gravila Wanda Afualo-Carey
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Sir, this memorial is in front of 25th ID HQ in Hawaii. It is a tribute to all the fallen warriors of the division. As I walk by this everyday, I often wonder what the soldiers were thinking if they were alive.
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs
SSG(P) (Join to see) This is awesome and may they RIP - my father served with the 25th Infantry Division in Korea! Thanks for sharing!
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MAJ Hugh Blanchard
"Tropic Lightning!" What a great unit. It was a real privilege to serve in the 25th ID (Light).
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The Oregon Vietnam Veterans Memorial is located in Portland Oregon. It is peaceful and beautiful, and worth a visit if you are in the Portland area.
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs
Sgt (Join to see) This is really beautiful. Thanks for sharing Ted. I owe you a "vote up" just several days behind!
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MSgt (Join to see) I've seen this one on my many trips to Washington DC. Very nice Memorial and Monument! Thanks for sharing with the RP Nation!
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Maj Bill Smith, Ph.D.
I funded three names on this monument who fought in WWII. My birth father who was in Europe and received the Silver Star for valor in the Battle of the Buldge, My dad who adopted me who was in numerous campaigns in the Pacific and island hopped and helped built runways for the Army Air Corps, and my wife's father who was an Army partrooper and at the end of the war also served in the forces occupying Japan. I enlisted in the USAF and that was okay by all of them :)
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SCPO Jason McLaughlin This is very beautiful - thanks for sharing with the RP Nation!
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The USS Oklahoma Memorial, Pearl Harbor, Hawai'i. The number of men lost on the USS Oklahoma is second only to the number of men lost on the USS Arizona. The USS Oklahoma Memorial honors the 429 men who lost their lives aboard the Oklahoma on December 7th, 1941. Each white pylon represents one man.
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CPT (Join to see) I take it you were stationed in Hawaii at one time with all these great pictures. Very nice.
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SGT Richard H. Great photo - haven't heard from you in a long time - thanks for sharing Richard!
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SCPO Larry Poffenbarger
Several years ago I had the honor of participating in a wreath-laying ceremony at Tomb of the Unknowns. To be able to walk beyond the chains and approach the Tomb, just feet from where the guards march. Quite a feeling.
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