Clearly, the artist was looking for a way to ignore or minimize Ike's historical accomplishments.
Eisenhower family, stay strong on this!
You have much support.
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I’m with the family. When I saw this article, I wondered if the memorial was going to be crescent shaped or something similar.
No more monuments or museums in DC. We cannot afford it!
Or this:
How pathetic and demeaning to the Eisenhower family and to the President.
What’s next? A statue of Reagan in a baby cradle saying a few coos and gurgles that presage his future great oratorical skills?
They sure didn’t put a statue of MLK as a boy.
Conservatives should not stand for this crap.
Really difficult to judge based on the pictures with the article. Honestly, the building design looks very classy and extremely restrained for Frank Gehry. As for he country bumpkin statue, can’t judge something I can’t see, but I can at least say that he did start out as a boy from Kansas and was not always the a general or president. If the boy from Kansas was the only image of Eisenhower in the memorial I’d agree. But at this point I don’t see the problem.
(But then I grew up in Hannibal, Mo with statues of Tom and Huck everywhere. So that kind of image doesn’t offend me.)
What kind of PC crapola is that? Better idea, a depiction of Eisenhower standing on that English airfield on the night of June 5, 1944 surrounded by his American paratroopers.
The insignia for General of the Army, as created in 1944, consisted of five stars in a pentagonal pattern, with points touching. The five officers who have held the 1944 version of General of the Army are:
George Marshall 16 December 1944
Douglas MacArthur 18 December 1944
Dwight D. Eisenhower 20 December 1944
Henry H. Arnold 21 December 1944
Omar Bradley 22 September 1950
There have been no “Generals of The Army” since General Bradley. (There have been three equivalent Naval officers, “Fleet Admirals”).
Ike was one of the good ones.
The most under-appreciated POTUS in history.
To not show show him as a five-star general officer in US military (less than ten ever)...winner of WWII... in full uniform is a disgrace.
Along with Washington and Grant I can't think of another to achieve as highly.
“appreciates the comments provided by the Eisenhower family.”
Governmentspeak,,, for “screw you”
David was king of the Israelites but Michaelangelo got away with portraying him as a naked dude
Here’s a website dedicated to opposing the statue and the memorial, for the reasons they list... here:
http://www.eisenhowermemorial.net/national-civic-art-society-report-frank-gehrys-eisenhower-memorial
Will the Obama memorial show him peering out at his achievements as a boy, from a hut in Kenya?