That shows the progression of man from infant to old age.
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Posted on 05/24/2024 5:09:57 AM PDT by Libloather
A valiant nod to America's military heroes is soon to be seen in Washington, D.C.
A WWI monument called "A Soldier’s Journey" will be unveiled in Pershing Park on Sept. 13, 2024, and will serve as the centerpiece of the National World War I Memorial in the nation's capital.
The sprawling bronze sculpture, which measures about 60 feet long, depicts the heroic journey of a soldier — from the time he leaves home for war until he finally returns.
Fox News Digital spoke to master sculptor Sabin Howard, who took the lead on the project, about his artwork. He said it’s been a nine-year creative process.
Architect Joseph Weishaar, who lives in Washington, D.C., was just 25 years old when he won the opportunity to design the memorial through a blind, global competition against 350 other design teams in 2016 — and appointed Howard to sculpt it.
The Bronx-born artist, who had been sculpting for 35 years at that time, said he had an "epic" vision for the project.
"The way I saw this project from the beginning, I wanted to make something that was at the level of the Sistine Chapel and great works of art that were in the Italian Renaissance," he said.
"I wanted to play forward that concept of sacred art at an epic level."
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Looks like a nice monument at least. I was expecting some eye sore
There’s a lot of work in that piece.
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We once did a ten mile hike around DC that was a monument tour. There are so many monuments there that most don’t know about.
I despise the DC swamp, but monuments make up for much of it. (Except the awful MLK and FDR ones. Those are despicable)
This guy gets it and this looks to be one of the best.
We live a couple hours north of DC so this will be on our list.
I doubt I will ever get to see it in person. It is breathtaking. Some of the comments at the end of the article are troubling, one person actually calling it “woke”. I hope the final casting goes without a hitch. It looks like a real masterpiece.
A war caused mostly by military alliances created by the Elites of the day. The U.S. should’ve listened to George Washington....
One of your most wonderful videos, mairdie! thanks for the link!
Wilson wanted to make the world “safe for democracy.” Democracy was a dirty word in George Washington’s time. The Constitution created a republic, not a democracy.
I had two uncles and a great-uncle serve in WWI. Fortunately they all came home; but one was never the same.
Grandmother studied art at the Art Institute when Lorado Taft taught there. Mother studied fine arts in Lorado Taft’s studio. When it was my turn, I studied the techniques of ancient art and life sketching in Lorado Taft’s studio. I can still almost remember the smell of the place.
Mother was addicted to his work and always took me to see his sculptures. It’s one of my most cherished childhood memories.
Father was trained in the army by WWI veterans. Many of his poems cover that period.
The Convent of the Guns
The Daily Maroon
Oct 18, 1828
Our clean curved mouths are cold and dead.
Our polished skin is marred.
Our tawny thighs are thick with dirt,
Dinted, cut, and scarred;
Our day is done! But once!
Our open mouths blazed Deaths’ caress
Our tongues with steel were tipped!
Ah! Bitter spinsters were we then
As we slashed and cut and ripped;
Our youth was filled with lovers
All laughing, joyous boys
Who stroked our slim, proud beauty
Their latest, deadly toys.
Then clean and fresh and polished
We went forth with the Dead
The living, lovely happy lads
Whose last touch, dyed us red.
But supplanted like all harlots
By the newer fresher one
We turned to rest and quiet
As our kind have always done,
With a printed tag about our throats
To inform our lovers’ sons
We’re an Ordanance Exhibition
The Convent of the Guns!
El Tigre.
The Zero Hour
Daily Maroon - Nov 2, 1928
Grey stars agleam in a blank, dead sky
Grey guns agrowl below.
Grey clad men out beyond the wire.
Grey fields in the star-shells glow.
The barrage is a pounding symphony
That ears attuned cannot hear.
There’s something flicking the parapet
There’s something above you fear!
Not fear of “stopping one” above,
Or fear for the man beside.
There’s something flicking the parapet
There’s a fear that you cannot hide.
“Stand By!” The rifle is cool in your hand
And your heart pounds hard and quick.
There’s something flicking the parapet
Number Three of the squad is sick.
The rifle hurts the palm of your hand
Like gripping a stiff wire brush
There’s something flicking the parapet
“Walk slow through the wire, then rush!”
The whistle! The ladders! Up over the edge!
And your legs seem stiff and sore.
There’s something flicking the parapet
Number Three is sick no more!
Grey stars agleam in a blank dead sky
Grey guns agrowl below.
Grey faces turned to the glowing stars
Where men lie dead in a row.
El Tigre.
Thanks.
L
I'm surprised the left hasn't complained yet that General Pershing was known as "Black Jack" Pershing.
My great-uncle served in WWI, in the 38th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Forces in France, and was killed two months before the Armistice. There's a dough-boy monument sitting on the small village green in Picton, Ontario that contains his name, and other local boys who gave their lives in that war.
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