The Wright Brother’s Memorial is our tribute to them for giving us the invention of human flight.This major revelation changed human life as we knew it. People could now travel in hours what used to take days. Flight made it easier to visit other places, be exposed to the culture of others, and …show more content…
It's an important milestone in history everywhere not only the United States. Some appreciation seems justified.
The eight foot statue of Benjamin Franklin that stands in front of Boston’s French Second
Empire Style Old City Hall has been there since 1856. It was Boston’s first public statue of a person. This piece of art has been there for centuries. Not only is this statue representing history, it has now become history itself. Not only that, but it was one of Boston’s firsts. Meaning that this sculpture was something innovative that changed Boston because of it being there.
These are two other reasons why these commemoratives should be of importance to us.
Lastly, Fort Caroline is a monument in Jacksonville, Florida that serves the remembrance of all that have died there and our past. Before the United States had ownership of Florida it was claimed by Spain. France fought Spain there in 1562 in a struggle to take the territory. The war formed another monument called Saint Augustine, which was the first permanent European monument in the United States. A lot of men expired there from the