Monday, November 11, 2013
"World War I Memorial" -Maureen Picard Robins
"In honor of those who served in the world war in defense of liberty and our country."That is the inscription on the Liberty tower of the memorial. I didn't know the WWI memorial is in Kansas City, Missouri, nor how big it is. I always find the elements of memorials and their specific meanings interesting and heart-felt. For instance, memorial faces east, toward Flanders Field and other WWI locations. It is also 11 degrees off North in honor of armistice: November 11, 1918 @ 11 am.Happy Remembrance Day...Lest we forget.Read Also:Norman Jorgenson's In Flanders Field, a book of the poem.Fly, Cher Ami, Fly by Robert Burleigh about the pigeon that saved a battalion.Margaret Rotkowski's After the Dancing Days, a novel about a soldier recovering from the gas attacks.
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Hey! I can tell you all kinds of things about the Liberty Memorial, like the museum got added later and it went from a non-utilitarian to a utilitarian type of memorial.
ReplyDeleteIt's the subject for the Academic Decathlon Competition this year. I am a wealth of knowledge.