Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 34. Chapters: Century Tower (University of Florida), District of Columbia War Memorial, Elks National Veterans Memorial, Indiana World War Memorial Plaza, International World War Peace Tree, Liberty Memorial, List of memorials and monuments at Arlington National Cemetery, Littlefield Fountain, Memorial Arch (Huntington, West Virginia), Memorial Gymnasium (University of Idaho), Memorial Hall (Newark, Delaware), Memorial Hall (University of Kentucky), Memorial Park, Houston, Mojave Memorial Cross, Navy - Merchant Marine Memorial, Rosedale World War I Memorial Arch, Soldiers and McKinley Memorial Parkways, Spirit of the American Doughboy, Tomb of the Known Soldier, Tomb of the Unknowns, Victory Boulevard (Staten Island), Virginia War Memorial, Waikiki Natatorium War Memorial, Washington Avenue Soldier's Monument and Triangle, World War I Memorial (Atlantic City, New Jersey), World War I Memorial (East Providence, Rhode Island), World War I Memorial Flagpole (Hawkins), World War Memorial (Kimball, West Virginia). Excerpt: U.S. Navy sailor and woman at the Tomb of the Unknowns, May 1943The Tomb of the Unknowns is a monument dedicated to American service members who have died without their remains being identified. It is also known as the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier; it has never been officially named. It is located in Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia, United States of America. The World War I "Unknown" is a recipient of the Medal of Honor, the Victoria Cross, and several other foreign nations' highest service awards. The U.S. Unknowns who were interred are also recipients of the Medal of Honor, presented by the U.S. presidents who presided over their funerals. Tomb as of November 11, 1922. The Tomb of 1931 would occupy this same location.On March 4, 1921, the United States Congress approved the burial of an unidentified...

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.

"This ... assessment of Civil War monuments unveiled in the United States between the 1860s and 1930s argues that they were pivotal to a national embrace of military values. Americans' wariness of standing armies limited construction of war memorials in the early republic, ... and continued to influence commemoration after the Civil War. ... distrust of standing armies gave way to broader enthusiasm for soldiers in the Gilded Age. Some important projects challenged the trend, but many Civil War monuments proposed new norms of discipline and vigor that lifted veterans to a favored political status and modeled racial and class hierarchies. A half century of Civil War commemoration reshaped remembrance of the American Revolution and guided American responses to World War I"--

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.

"No soldier could ask for a sweeter resting place than on the field of glory where he fell. The land he died to save vies with the one which gave him birth in paying tribute to his memory, and the kindly hands which so often come to spread flowers upon his earthly coverlet express in their gentle task a personal affection."—General John J. Pershing To remember and honor the memory of the American soldiers who fought and died in foreign wars during the past hundred years, the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) was established. Since the agency was founded in 1923, its sole purpose has been to commemorate the soldiers' service and the causes for which their lives were given. The twenty-five overseas cemeteries honoring 139,000 combat dead and the memorials honoring the 60,314 fallen soldiers with no known graves are among the most beautiful and meticulously maintained shrines in the world. In the first comprehensive study of the ABMC, Thomas H. Conner traces how the agency came to be created by Congress in the aftermath of World War I, how the cemeteries and monuments the agency built were designed and their locations chosen, and how the commemorative sites have become important "outposts of remembrance" on foreign soil. War and Remembrance powerfully demonstrates that these monuments—living sites that embody the role Americans played in the defense of freedom far from their own shores—assist in understanding the interconnections of memory and history and serve as an inspiration to later generations.

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 109. Chapters: America's Response Monument, American Battle Monuments Commission, American Merchant Marine Veterans Memorial, American War Memorials Overseas, Andersonville National Historic Site, Andrew Johnson National Historic Site, Arlington Memorial Amphitheater, AT6 Monument, Beirut Memorial, Big Spring Vietnam Memorial, Buono Beach, Camp Chase, Cerritos Veterans Memorial, Corozal American Cemetery and Memorial, District of Columbia War Memorial, East Coast Memorial, Faces of War Memorial, Fairy Lochs, Father Capodanno Boulevard, First Division Monument, Georgia Veterans State Park, Go For Broke Monument, Grand Army of the Republic Memorial Hall (Peoria, Illinois), Iron Mike, Jefferson Memorial Forest, Kentucky Medal of Honor Memorial, Kent County Civil War Monument, Korean War Veterans Memorial, Korean War Veterans Parkway, List of memorials and monuments at Arlington National Cemetery, Lone Tree Cemetery, Mabry-Hazen House, Marine Corps War Memorial, Medal of Honor Memorial (Indianapolis), Memorial Chapel (University of Maryland), Memorial Hall (Harvard University), Memorial Hall (University of Kentucky), Memorial Honor Detail, Michigan Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument, Montfaucon American Monument, Mount Soledad, National D-Day Memorial, National World War II Memorial, Navy - Merchant Marine Memorial, New Jersey Vietnam Veterans Memorial, New York Monuments Commission, Northwood Gratitude and Honor Memorial, Oregon Korean War Memorial, Peace Monument, Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial, Princeton Battle Monument, Prison Ship Martyrs' Monument, Queen of the Holy Rosary Memorial Shrine, Ranger Memorial, Rock Creek Park, Rosedale World War I Memorial Arch, Second Division Memorial, Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument (Cleveland), Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument (Indiana), Soldiers and Sailors Monument (New...