Our armed forces exist solely to ensure our nation is safe, so that each and every one of us can sleep soundly at night, knowing we have 'guardians at the gate.'” We must never forget the lives that were taken while protecting our country. Having the privilege to lay the wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown would touch me on a personal level. I have a great-great uncle who served in Vietnam. I remember hearing stories of how his mother and sister were worried sick that he wouldn’t make it home. Thankfully, he arrived home safely. On the other hand, somewhere there was a mother who will never know what happened to her son. A mother who never got to lay her little boy to rest. A wife that never got to grow old with her husband. Maybe even a little girl who was never able to have her daddy walk her down the aisle. Although the identities of these men are unknown, they all have a different story. I could never imagine what it would be like to never truly know what happened to your father, son, or brother. It brings tears to my eyes thinking about those families who faced that type of situation. If I were able to lay the wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, it would become my greatest responsibility. I would forever remember the day that I was able to honor those who fought for our…
What Memorial Day means to me. When I think of Memorial Day I think of the soldiers I think of the way that these heroes get out of bed each day, and walk to the battlefield to defend our country. Memorial Day is not just a day to respect our current and past veterans, but a day to remember the fallen veterans. Also I think of the heart of a soldier which is like the size of the Titanic, and twice as big, and the soul of a soldier which is free and peaceful. If only the world was free and peaceful.…
Monuments are an irreplaceable way in which individuals throughout the world commemorate the triumphs of heroes or disastrous events. When devising a monument, individuals often disregard three critical factors; the location, size and material of the monument. Location, size and material must be utilized in preciseness to obtain optimum success.…
The Vietnam Memorials to this day have various interpretations that change among individuals. For example, when seeing the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C. people feel sorrow, anger, pain and some even feel shame for the U.S. having been part of a war that meant absolutely nothing to the American public. On the other hand the Three Servicemen Memorial constructs a notion of loyalty and dependence on your partner or team. Both memorials were created for the remembrance of the Vietnam War, yet they both create different types of emotions. By the designers not having any influence on the way that individuals view these memorials, a wide array of opinions rise and that is normal because no individual will have the same thinking as someone else. The memorials themselves will create a type of collective memory that individuals will obtain by viewing these memorials. Even if they do not agree with their meaning, just by seeing these memorials, the memory of the Vietnam War becomes a part of us and our…
I have chosen to use the flower as a way of portraying the “hippie” movement of the 1960’s, in order to truly depict how necessary all of the protests and promotions of peace were to ending the war. At the time, a slogan called “Flower Power” had become widely recognized as symbol of passive resistance and anti-violence ideologies. Protesters would offer policeman flowers, all in hopes of showing the American government how important it was to end the violence in the Vietnam, and show them how to accept peace and love. Specifically, the daisy flower is to be used in the memorial because during this time of “Flower Power,” daisies had become almost signatory, as many protesters were using these flowers as symbols of their hopes and ideologies. Along with this relation, the daisy flower is a common symbol of both love and transformation, a perfect way to describe what America had to go through during the Vietnam war times. Essentially, The daisy flower would be used to symbolize the significance and importance of protest against the Vietnam war, and the promotion of peace. The second architectural detail is the small but noticeable water droplets, one on each side of the stem. These drops are more than simply aesthetic, as they hold a homage to the fallen American soldiers. I chose to use theses droplets of water as some kind of depiction of aftermath, the aftermath of a storm, which in this case would be the war. The droplets portray the lives of the soldiers, and how those lives are to now slowly fade away, and once again become simply a part of history. They show the pure sadness that the American public was feeling during the war times, in a way portraying their feelings for their lost loved ones. These droplets can be interpreted as either rain drops from a storm, depicting how lives were lost during a storm that was the Vietnam war, or the tears…
German playwright Frank Wedekind famously said of monuments that they “... are for the living, not the dead.” A memorial does not serve any purpose for those it commemorates, rather, they educate and remind those that visit of the enshrined individual(s) or event. They also vary greatly in scope with one memorial being dedicated to the entirety of American forces in World War II while another could be dedicated to a single soldier. In the case of the George Rogers Clark National Historic Park, it serves as a historic site wherein a number of those involved with the Illinois campaign are memorialized in present day Vincennes, Indiana.…
The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is a practice utilized throughout the world to memorialize soldiers who have died in modern wars without being identified. The first monument of this kind was the Tomb of Unknown Soldiers in Frederica, Denmark (1858), which memorialized unknown soldiers who died in the First War of Schleswig. Another such Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is found in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and was erected in 1866 to honor those soldiers who died during the American Civil War.…
One thing I have to say about this particular memorial is that it’s far more emotionally involving. The Freedman’s Memorial is architecturally classic and emotionally wrenching. It does what a true memorial is supposed to do: it makes you feel the pain and sacrifice of the people it memorializes. The Freedman’s Memorial is a mixture of park and sculpture garden. A wrought-iron fence surrounds most of the small park, which is planted in spreading pecan trees.…
Memorials also give great history in remembering things that could’ve happened before you were born. They can give you a visual on how things were at the time of the event. I personally enjoy looking at memorials to remember all things that happened in the past…
When the Israelites crossed the river Jordan, under the lead of Joshua, he instructed one man from each house to receive a stone from the river. The reason for this was to remind them of how they crossed the river and how God provided. Memorial stones tell the story of how the Israelites crossed the river Jordan. For me I have a memorial stone, and that for me would be my cleats.…
It is hard to pick which monument I like the most because they both represent something very important to our society but Ground Zero is my biggest attraction. Ground Zero is a memorial for the people killed in the tragic event of 9/11. Ground Zero is surrounded by other buildings but around the perimeter of the remains there’s little trees all around. This monument makes me feel happy and content because 9/11 wasn’t easy to overcome, especially people who lost loved ones that day. Now they have a place where they can remember them and takes them items like roses or the victim's favorite items . The monument has the names of the victims killed engraved in the pavement which hold a sentimental feeling for me because it’s very thoughtful so they…
What Memorial Day means to me What most kid think of a day off of school. But to me it’s so much more than just a day off school or a BB’Q.To me it’s about the veterans who honor our country. So think about the people who served your country and died for you so that you could have this life.…
“A day on which those who died in active military service are remembered, traditionally observed on May 30 but now officially observed on the last Monday in May” is how Google defines Memorial Day from the book. However, everyone has their own experiences and ideas of what this American holiday means to them; not every word or phrase can be clearly defined like they do in dictionaries. For some students, Memorial Day means a day off from school; or a day to play video games, or binge watch an entire TV show. Or, if you’re in the school band, it means long parades out in the blistering sun while you feel sweat drip down to your uniform, soaking it and making you feel even more uncomfortable in the position of attention. Though for one of my…
A grave good is usually something that is buried along with the deceased person. This item is usually a personal or favorite thing that the deceased liked. Its purpose is to accompany the dead into the afterlife. The burial monument is a Christianity based ground and so the figures and items relating to Christianity are in-cooperated into the plan and design of the monument.…
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