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Total Pages : 4 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (18 download)
Download or read book World War II Memorial Dedication written by and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Douglas Brinkley
Publisher : Harper Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 9780060851583
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (515 download)
Download or read book The World War II Memorial written by Douglas Brinkley and published by Harper Paperbacks. This book was released on 2005-12-27 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In May 2004, the sixtieth anniversary year of D-Day, the nation paid tribute to its World War II heroes with the dedication of a memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. This beautifully illustrated keepsake offers a behind-the-scenes look at the creation of the memorial and its place in American history. Exclusive photographs show the memorial in all stages of development, accompanied by text exploring the symbolism of each part -- the Rainbow Pool, the Wall of Remembrance, the Field of Stars, the Freedom Wall, and the Pillars of the States and Territories. George H. W. Bush, former senator Bob Dole, Yogi Berra, and other veterans share their personal stories, and leading military historians contribute essays on the war efforts at home and abroad. Like the memorial it commemorates, this book pays tribute to the "greatest generation" -- the everyday Americans who rose up to defend our freedom.
Author : Nicolaus Mills
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ISBN 13 : 0786728426
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)
Download or read book Their Last Battle written by Nicolaus Mills and published by . This book was released on 2009-04-29 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Memorial Day weekend in 2004, the National World War II Memorial on the Mall in Washington will officially open to the public. What began as a casual conversation between a Congresswoman and one of her constituents in 1987 grew into a struggle that lasted more than four times longer than it took America to fight the war itself. Its rocky progress to completion is a compelling story about how America chooses to memorialize its past and how we view World War II.Nicolaus Mills recounts the development of the Washington Mall, from its time as swampland to Southern outrage over the Lincoln Memorial to Maya Lin's controversial Vietnam Veterans' Memorial. The World War II Memorial would prove just as controversial; it took the support of WW II vet Bob Dole and actor Tom Hanks to overrule the strong objections of interest groups, self-appointed art critics, and others.In Their Last Battle, a story vividly narrated through interviews with politicians and vets, architects and citizens, Mills discovers what a public monument can tell us about America and the values it honors.
Author : American Legion. Plattsburgh Post No. 20 (Plattsburgh, N.Y.).
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Total Pages : 6 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (426 download)
Download or read book World War II Memorial Dedication, May 29, 2004 written by American Legion. Plattsburgh Post No. 20 (Plattsburgh, N.Y.). and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas B. Grooms
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Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)
Download or read book World War II Memorial, Washington, D.C. written by Thomas B. Grooms and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is based primarily in information provided in extensive oral interviews with individuals who played a major role in the design and construction of the national World War II Memorial in Washington, DC.
Author : Ernie Pyle
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1667623613
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (676 download)
Download or read book Here Is Your War written by Ernie Pyle and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2023-05-25 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wonderful and enduring tribute to American troops in the Second World War, Here Is Your War is Ernie Pyle’s story of the soldiers’ first campaign against the enemy in North Africa. With unequaled humanity and insight, Pyle tells how people from a cross-section of America—ranches, inner cities, small mountain farms, and college towns—learned to fight a war.
Author : THOMAS J. LAY WARD (WILLIAM D.)
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ISBN 13 : 9781910814505
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (145 download)
Download or read book Park Statue Politics written by THOMAS J. LAY WARD (WILLIAM D.) and published by . This book was released on 2019-02-14 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Numerous academics have researched Japan's dehumanizing comfort women system that, for decades, forced innocents into sexual slavery. Since 2010 a campaign has been in place to proliferate comfort women memorials in the United States. These memorials now span from New York to California and from Texas to Michigan. They recount only the Korean version of this history, which this text finds incomplete. They do not mention that, immediately following World War II, American soldiers also frequented Japan's comfort women stations. They say nothing of how, to the present day, GIs continue to patronize Asian women and girls organized in brothels near their barracks. The Korean narrative also ignores the significant role that Koreans played in recruiting women and girls into the system. Intentionally or not, comfort women memorials in the United States promote a political agenda rather than transparency, accountability and reconciliation. This book explains, critiques, and expands on the competing state and civil society narratives regarding the dozen memorials erected in the United States since 2010 to honor female victims of the comfort women system established and maintained by the Japanese military from 1937 to 1945.
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Total Pages : 18 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (269 download)
Download or read book Dedication of World War II Memorial written by and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gary Metivier
Publisher : Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781455617487
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (174 download)
Download or read book Saluting Grandpa written by Gary Metivier and published by Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2012-09-14 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andrew wants nothing more than to see his great-grandfather honored for World War II. He learns about Honor Flights, a program that flies veterans to Washington, D.C. to visit a memorial dedicated to them, but his great-grandfather refuses to go. Andrew becomes determined to inspire him to celebrate his bravery and dedication to his country. Children and adults will appreciate this patriotic, endearing tale.
Author : James Houlihan
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Book Rating : 4.:/5 (663 download)
Download or read book A Trip to the World War II Memorial Dedication Weekend written by James Houlihan and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of photographs taken at the World War II Memorial dedication, Memorial Day weekend, 2004.
Author : Steven Trout
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 0700629343
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (6 download)
Download or read book The Vietnam Veterans Memorial at Angel Fire written by Steven Trout and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A great white angel spreading her wings across the Moreno Valley: this is how one visitor described the memorial standing atop a windswept prominence in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains near Taos, New Mexico. A de-facto national Vietnam veterans memorial, built by one family more than a decade before the Wall in Washington, DC, and without aid or recognition from the US government, the chapel at Angel Fire is a testament to one young American’s sacrifice—but also to the profound determination of his family to find meaning in their loss. In The Vietnam Veterans Memorial at Angel Fire, Steven Trout tells the story of Marine Lieutenant David Westphall, who was killed near Con Thien on May 22, 1968, and of the Westphall family’s subsequent struggle to create and maintain a one-of-a-kind memorial chapel dedicated to the memory of all Americans lost in the Vietnam War and to the cause of world peace. Focused primarily on a life lost amid our nation’s most controversial conflict and on the Westphalls’ desperate battle to keep their chapel open between 1971 and 1982, the book’s brisk and moving narrative traces the memorial’s evolution from a personal act of family remembrance to its emergence as an iconic pilgrimage destination for thousands of Vietnam veterans. Documenting the chapel’s shifting messages over time, which include a momentary (and controversial) recognition of the dead on both sides of the war, The Vietnam Veterans Memorial at Angel Fire spotlights one American soldier’s tragic story and the monument to hope and peace that it inspired.
Author : Kristin Ann Hass
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520274113
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Sacrificing Soldiers on the National Mall written by Kristin Ann Hass and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2013-03-22 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the city’s first two hundred years, the story told at Washington DC’s symbolic center, the National Mall, was about triumphant American leaders. Since 1982, when the Vietnam Veterans Memorial was dedicated, the narrative has shifted to emphasize the memory of American wars. In the last thirty years, five significant war memorials have been built on, or very nearly on, the Mall. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial, the Korean War Veterans Memorial, the Women in Military Service for America Memorial, The National Japanese American Memorial to Patriotism During WWII, and the National World War II Memorial have not only transformed the physical space of the Mall but have also dramatically rewritten ideas about U.S. nationalism expressed there. In Sacrificing Soldiers on the National Mall, Kristin Ann Hass examines this war memorial boom, the debates about war and race and gender and patriotism that shaped the memorials, and the new narratives about the nature of American citizenship that they spawned. Sacrificing Soldiers on the National Mall explores the meanings we have made in exchange for the lives of our soldiers and asks if we have made good on our enormous responsibility to them.
Author : Topsham War Memorial Committee (Topsham, Me.)
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Total Pages : 8 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (811 download)
Download or read book Dedication Ceremonies of World War II Monument and Memorial Park written by Topsham War Memorial Committee (Topsham, Me.) and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Friedrich St. Florian
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Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book National World War II Memorial, Washington, D.C. written by Friedrich St. Florian and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marianna Torgovnick
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226808793
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)
Download or read book The War Complex written by Marianna Torgovnick and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-11-15 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The recent dedication of the World War II memorial and the sixtieth-anniversary commemoration of D-Day remind us of the hold that World War II still has over America's sense of itself. But the selective process of memory has radically shaped our picture of the conflict. Why else, for instance, was a 1995 Smithsonian exhibition on Hiroshima that was to include photographs of the first atomic bomb victims, along with their testimonials, considered so controversial? And why do we so readily remember the civilian bombings of Britain but not those of Dresden, Hamburg, and Tokyo? Marianna Torgovnick argues that we have lived, since the end of World War II, under the power of a war complex—a set of repressed ideas and impulses that stems from our unresolved attitudes toward the technological acceleration of mass death. This complex has led to gaps and hesitations in public discourse about atrocities committed during the war itself. And it remains an enduring wartime consciousness, one most recently animated on September 11. Showing how different events from World War II became prominent in American cultural memory while others went forgotten or remain hidden in plain sight, The War Complex moves deftly from war films and historical works to television specials and popular magazines to define the image and influence of World War II in our time. Torgovnick also explores the 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann, the emotional legacy of the Holocaust, and the treatment of World War II's missing history by writers such as W. G. Sebald to reveal the unease we feel at our dependence on those who hold the power of total war. Thinking anew, then, about how we account for war to each other and ourselves, Torgovnick ultimately, and movingly, shows how these anxieties and fears have prepared us to think about September 11 and our current war in Iraq.
Author : Judith Bellafaire
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Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book The Army Nurse Corps written by Judith Bellafaire and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 19 pages
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Download or read book World War II Illinois Veterans Memorial Dedication Day written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
