Armistice Day received its name in America in 1926. Twelve years later, it became a national holiday. There was a hope that World War I would be “the War to end all wars”. If that were true, this national holiday would still be called Armistice Day however, three years later, war (World War II) broke out in Europe. Over sixteen and one-half million Americans took part in World War II, and over 407,000 Americans died in service during World War II. When people realized that world peace was eq

Korea is a country that is bitterly cold in the winter and steaming and hot in the summer. One Korean veteran would remember being badly wounded when the Chinese army found he and his buddies in the back of Army trucks. The Chinese soldiers went through the truck shooting the American soldiers between the eyes, one after the other. An Army soldier was shot but the bullet just grazed his forehead, but he pretended to be dead. It was 35 degrees below zero and the soldier ended up crawling on hands and knees to escape the other Chinese soldiers who came. Other Korean veterans remember the insects during the summer that were the size of a man’s fist. Korea is a country made up of lots of mountainous terrain, and the fighting was bloody and difficult. The United States soldiers in Korea had a saying that for every 10 enemy soldiers you killed, 10 more would take their place.

After the Rosenthal photograph appeared in the United States newspapers, Felix DeWeldon, a sculptor who was working with the United States Navy, was so moved by it that he made a clay replica of it. Two days after the photograph appeared, the United States Senate called for a national monument to be made based on the photograph. Eventually, DeWeldon was commissioned to design and sculpt the statue, officially called the United States Marine War Memorial, based on Joe Rosenthal’s photograph. The memorial was completely paid for by private donation. DeWeldon used the survivors to pose for the sculpture, and he used pictures of the three dead marines to recreate their likenesses. First, DeWeldon used steel framework to build the figures’ bone structure, then covered this with the muscles and skin. Each bronze figure is 32 feet high, and the total monument stands 78 feet tall. President Eisenhower dedicated the monument on November 10, 1954. Unlike World War II, there was not a lot of glory in fighting in Korea.

My favorite bronze memorial relief is John Paul Jones because he was so brave in the face of overwhelming odds. When asked to surrender his ship during the Revolutionary War he replied “I have not yet begun to fight.” The spirit of the United States Navy is embodied by John Paul Jones. The battle between John Paul Jones’ ship, the Ranger and HMS Drake in the Irish Sea, is depicted in the bronze relief by sculptor Fred Press. When John Paul Jones was asked what was important to him when he was being assigned to another ship, he stated “I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast, for I intend to go in harm’s way.” John Paul Jones was a very famous and courageous American. Many brave American’s are buried at Arlington National Cemetery.

ually preserved by the veterans of World War II, Congress made November 11th a day to honor all who served in all America’s wars. In 1954, President Eisenhower signed a bill that said November 11th would be known as Veteran’s Day. A law was passed in 1968 changing the date to the 4th Monday in October, but because of the significance of the 11th day of the 11th month (November 11th), it was restored to its traditional date.

Each of the walls is 246’ 8” long and meet at an angle of 125 degrees, 12 minutes, pointing exactly to the northeast corners of the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorials. At the tallest point, the wall is 10’ 1 ½” in height. The black granite stone for the memorial was quarried near Bagalore, India. The cutting, polishing, and fabricating of the Wall was done in Barre, Vermont. The names were gritblasted in Memphis Tennessee. The names on the Wall are from the official Department of Defense list of those killed in combat or missing in action in the Vietnam War. There were 57,939 names originally inscribed on the walls of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

The army was visualized as a strategic instrument of national policy that has served our country well in peace and war for over two hundred year

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