Announcement Stone
HERE IN THE PRESENCE OF WASHINGTON AND LINCOLN, ONE THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY FATHER AND THE OTHER THE NINETEENTH CENTURY PRESERVER OF OUR NATION, WE HONOR THOSE TWENTIETH CENTURY AMERICANS WHO TOOK UP THE STRUGGLE DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR AND MADE THE SACRIFICES TO PERPETUATE THE GIFT OUR FOREFATHERS ENTRUSTED TO US: A NATION CONCEIVED IN LIBERTY AND JUSTICE.
Flagpoles AMERICANS CAME TO LIBERATE, NOT TO CONQUER, TO RESTORE FREEDOM AND TO END TYRANNY
Eastern Corners
PEARL HARBOR DECEMBER 7, 1941, A DATE WHICH WILL LIVE IN INFAMY… NO MATTER HOW LONG IT MAY TAKE US TO OVERCOME THIS PREMEDITATED INVASION THE AMERICAN PEOPLE IN THEIR RIGHTEOUS MIGHT, WILL WIN THROUGH TO ABSOLUTE VICTORY. PRESIDENT FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Speech delivered befor the Joint Session of Congress on December 8, 1941, one day afer the attack on Pearl Harbor and the Japanese declaration of war on the United States.
_________________________________________________________________________ THEY HAVE GIVEN THEIR SONS TO THE MILITARY SERVICES. THEY HAVE STOKED THE FURNACES AND HURRIED THE FACTORY WHEELS. THEY HAVE MADE THE PLANES AND WELDED THE TANKS, RIVETED THE SHIPS AND ROLLED THE SHELLS. PRESIDENT FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Statement given for Labor Day, August 19, 1942
________________________________________________________________________ WOMEN WHO STEPPED UP WERE MEASURED AS CITIZENS OF THE NATION, NOT AS WOMEN… THIS WAS A PEOPLE’S WAR, AND EVERYONE WAS IN IT. COLONEL OVETA CULP HOBBY Col. Hobby was the organizer and first commander of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) renamed the Women's Army Corps (WAC) in 1943.
________________________________________________________________________ THEY FOUGHT TOGETHER AS BROTHERS-IN-ARMS. THEY DIED TOGETHER AND NOW THEY SLEEP SIDE BY SIDE. TO THEM WE HAVE A SOLEMN OBLIGATION. ADMIRAL CHESTER W. NIMITZ Statement broadcast to the United States and the Pacific Fleet, after ceremonies accepting the official surrender of Japan, September 2, 1945
Western Corners
OUR DEBT TO THE
HEROIC MEN AND VALIANT WOMEN IN THE SERVICE OF OUR COUNTRY CAN NEVER BE REPAID. THEY HAVE EARNED OUR UNDYING GRATITUDE. AMERICA WILL NEVER FORGET THEIR SACRIFICES. PRESIDENT HARRY S TRUMAN Address Broadcast to the Armed Forces, April 17, 1945 ________________________________________________________________________ THE HEROISM OF OUR OWN TROOPS…WAS MATCHED BY THAT OF THE ARMED FORCES OF THE NATIONS THAT FOUGHT BY OUR SIDE… THEY ABSORBED THE BLOWS… AND THEY SHARED TO THE FULL IN THE ULTIMATE DESTRUCTION OF THE ENEMY. PRESIDENT HARRY S TRUMAN from Special Message to the Congress on Winning the War with Japan, June 1, 1945
Northern Walls WE ARE DETERMINED
THAT BEFORE THE SUN SETS ON THIS TERRIBLE STRUGGLE OUR FLAG WILL BE RECOGNIZED THROUGHOUT THE WORLD AS A SYMBOL OF FREEDOM ON THE ONE HAND AND OF OVERWHELMING FORCE ON THE OTHER. GENERAL GEORGE C. MARSHALL Speech to the graduating class of the United States Military Academy, May 29, 1942 _________________________________________________________________________ D-DAY JUNE 6, 1944 YOU ARE ABOUT TO EMBARK UPON THE GREAT CRUSADE TOWARD WHICH WE HAVE STRIVEN THESE MANY MONTHS. THE EYES OF THE WORLD ARE UPON YOU… I HAVE FULL CONFIDENCE IN YOUR COURAGE, DEVOTION TO DUTY AND SKILL IN BATTLE. GENERAL DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER Message to the troops of the Allied Expeditionary Force, June 6, 1944
Southern Walls BATTLE OF MIDWAY JUNE 4-7, 1942
THEY HAD NO RIGHT TO WIN. YET THEY DID, AND IN DOING SO THEY CHANGED THE COURSE OF A WAR…EVEN AGAINST THE GREATEST OF ODDS, THERE IS SOME- THING IN THE HUMAN SPIRIT – A MAGIC BLEND OF SKILL, FAITH AND VALOR – THAT CAN LIFT MEN FROM CERTAIN DEFEAT TO INCREDIBLE VICTORY. WALTER LORD, AUTHOR from "Incredible Victory - The Battle of Midway" (1967) _________________________________________________________________________ THE WAR’S END TODAY THE GUNS ARE SILENT. A GREAT TRAGEDY HAS ENDED. A GREAT VICTORY HAS BEEN WON. THE SKIES NO LONGER RAIN DEATH – THE SEAS BEAR ONLY COMMERCE – MEN EVERYWHERE WALK UPRIGHT IN THE SUNLIGHT. THE ENTIRE WORLD IS QUIETLY AT PEACE. GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR Radio address to the American people from the USS Missouri, following the Japanese surrender ceremony, September 2, 1945
Northern Fountain Coping
NORTH AFRICA SOUTHERN EUROPE WESTERN EUROPE CENTRAL EUROPE BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC * MURMANSK RUN * TUNISIA * SICILY SALERNO ANZIO ROME PO VALLEY * NORMANDY * ST. LO * AIR WAR IN EUROPE * ALSACE * RHINELAND * HUERTGEN FOREST *BATTLE OF THE BULGE * REMAGEN BRIDGE * GERMANY
Southern Fountain Coping
CHINA * BURMA * INDIA SOUTHWEST PACIFIC CENTRAL PACIFIC NORTH PACIFIC PEARL HARBOR * WAKE ISLAND * BATAAN CORREGIDOR * CORAL SEA * MIDWAY * GUADALCANAL * NEW GUINEA * BUNA * TARAWA * KWAJALEIN * ATTU * SAIPAN TINIAN GUAM * PHILIPPINE SEA *PELELIU * LEYTE GULF * LUZON * MANILA * IWO JIMA * OKINAWA * JAPAN
Atlantic and Pacific Pavilion Floors 1941 – 1945 VICTORY ON LAND VICTORY AT SEA VICTORY IN THE AIR
Freedom Wall HERE WE MARK THE PRICE OF FREEDOM Ceremonial Entrance (North Side)
WORLD WAR II MEMORIAL
GEORGE W. BUSH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES FRIEDRICH ST. FLORIAN DESIGN ARCHITECT AMERICAN BATTLE MONUMENTS COMMISSION 2004 |
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