Tom's Travel Diaries: Monuments and Memorials

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MONUMENTS AND MEMORIALS

Stutue honoring women who served in Vietnam.

[SCULPTURE ON THE MALL]
[ROOSEVELT MEMORIAL]
[OTHER MEMORIALS]

WAR MEMORIALS

Sculpted by Glenna Goodacre, the Vietnam Women's Memorial honors the 265,000 women who served during the Vietnam War. 11,000 of these were stationed in Vietnam, mostly as military nurses. Two views of the sculpture are shown, one at right and one at top.
	The statues at left depict 19 soldiers marching over a field of Juniper bushes on patrol in Korea. This is perhaps the most prominent feature of the Korean War Veteran's Memorial. The Memorial also features a Pool of Remembrance and a Wall of Faces depicting photographs of people who served in Korea.

LINCOLN MEMORIAL


The pictures above were taken of the Lincoln Memorial. The memorial was constructed to rresemble a Greek temple, with 36 Doric columns, one for each state after the Cival War. The statue of Lincoln was sculpted by Daniel Chester French.

JEFFERSON MEMORIAL

This shot of the Jefferson Memorial was taken from the Roosevelt Memorial, looking across the Tidal Basin.