United States Marine Corps War Memorial. Arlington, Virginia
Hello today I will take you to the United States Marine Corps War Memorial. This is one of the most famous images of World War II is commemorated in bronze on George Washington Memorial Parkway in Arlington, Virginia. The United States Marine Corps War Memorial, built to honor Marines who died in service, was modeled after a celebrated photograph taken during the Battle of Iwo Jima on Japan's Volcano Islands. The statue depicts a group of Marines raising a U.S flag on Mount Suribachi, and on the base of the memorial, an inscription reads: "Uncommon Valor was a Common Virtue.
I choose this monument because this mean, for me, a history of perseverance. A group of soldiers helping each other for the flag of United States, helping their country to win the war.
Oh, say! can you see by the dawn's early light
ReplyDeleteWhat so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming;
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there:
Oh, say! does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In fully glory reflected now shines in the stream:
'Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh, long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion
A home and a country should leave us no more?
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution!
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Oh, thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n-rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust":
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
OMG ALAN, YOU GOOOO!
ReplyDelete