Chris10's photos with the keyword: Margraten

Component from the Court of Honor with the reflecting pool in Margraten the Netherlands... It belongs to the Netherlands American Cemetery and Memorial. The mourning figure, representing the grieving mother of her lost son, the doves, the new shoot from the war destroyed tree are appositely described by the inscription on the stone base: NEW LIFE FROM WAR’S DESTRUCTION PROCLAIMS MAN’S IMMORTALITY AND HOPE FOR PEACE The west face of the tower bears this inscription from a free translation of Pericles’ oration as recorded by Thucydides: EACH FOR HIS OWN MEMORIAL EARNED PRAISE THAT WILL NEVER DIE AND WITH IT THE GRANDEST OF ALL SEPULCHRES NOT THAT IN WHICH HIS MORTAL BONES ARE LAID BUT A HOME IN THE MINDS OF MEN

Court of Honor with a reflecting pool in Margraten the Netherlands... It belongs to the Netherlands American Cemetery and Memorial. .

On the fourth of May we want to remember: 1... Here rest 8,301 of the U.S. military Dead, representing 43 percent of those who were originally buried in this and in other temporary cemeteries in this region. Most of them gave their lives in the airborne and ground operations to liberate eastern Holland, during the advances into Germany over the Roer and across the Rhine and in air operations over these regions. The World War II Netherlands American Cemetery and Memorial is the only cemetery of this kind in the Netherlands.

Carl 'Stern' died at March 31 1945... www.abmc.gov/cemeteries-memorials/europe/netherlands-american-cemetery#.VS2B6_msVIU 10-Week Picture Projects: Shapes. Week 4: (April 13-19) Star...