Items Tagged with 'memorial'

Documents describe a 250-ft high, 166-ft wide structure with a 55-ft central opening, topped by a winged figure flanked by two eagles.

The famous U.S. Army Ranger cliff-scaling in France is recreated on a midwest limestone bluff where the Mississippi and Illinois rivers meet.

The proposed commemorative arch in Washington D.C., has received approval from the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts and is now under review by the National Capital Planning Commission, even as a federal judge weighs a lawsuit seeking to halt the project.

The memorial contains more than 1,500 commemorative columns that represent the sailors and Marines killed Dec. 7, 1941, on the USS Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbor.

The last element of the three-phase Flight 93 National Memorial —the “Tower of Voices”—may  finally be adjusted to communicate this fall. 

The Tower of Voices at the Flight 93 National Memorial was dedicated on Sept. 9