Sentences with phrase «war memorial site»

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Situated near the heritage - designated site of the original D - Day landings, the Juno Beach Centre is a permanent memorial designed to honour the sacrifices made by Canadians during the Second World War.

Today, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is an American Lourdes: a pilgrimage site where the living come to commune with the dead and to reckon with war and their own mortality in the medium of the mirror that is the Wall.

BY ANDY HUMM Monuments to cataclysm — from the Vietnam War Memorial wall in Washington bearing the names of tens of thousands of American soldiers killed in that divisive US «police action» to the 9/11 Memorial waterfalls marking the site of the obliterated World Trade Center towers and the thousands who perished that day ---LSB-...]

Then there's Paladino straight to camera, promising to use eminent domain to block the mosque and use the site as a «war memorial, instead of a monument to those who attacked our country.»

The ground was broken at the former site of the War Memorial Auditorium on Saturday for further development of that historic, waterfront area.

The site of the former Erie Canal Harbor, Canalside has become a popular destination for tourists and residents since 2007 when Buffalo and the New York Power Authority began to redevelop the former site of War Memorial Auditorium into historically accurate canals.

With regard to a planned Islamic community center two blocks from the site of the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York City, in late July, 2010, Paladino issued a radio ad which stated, «As Governor, I will use the power of eminent domain to stop this mosque and make the site a war memorial instead of a monument to those who attacked our country.»

In other mosque news, Tea Party candidate Carl Paladino said if he were elected Governor of New York, he would use eminent domain to halt the project and «make the site a war memorial instead of a monument to those who attacked our country.»

The Web site: https://www.nps.gov/kowa/index2.htm To find the answer to that question, go to the Korean War Veterans Memorial home page.

This site is dedicated as a memorial for one of the worst home front disasters to occur during World War II, where 320 service men were instantly killed.

There is now a war memorial at the site.

Cruising on the Kwai allows visits to the bridge, memorials, museums and sites honouring the prisoners of war, as well as venturing off - the - beaten - track and revealing a river quite unspoilt, with magnificent scenery and a rich variety of flora and birdlife, with visits to local markets, temples, Khmer ruins, waterfalls and hot springs.

Explore major battle sites & barrack ruins, visit the Pacific War Memorial, discover Malinta Tunnel, and enjoy scenic views of Manila Bay from the island's historic lighthouse.

Unlike war memorials, these public monuments don't refer to a common history of a specific site or occurrence; they are instead based on modern popular culture that knows no genius loci.

In 1676, Central Falls served as the grounds of one of the major engagements in King Philip's War — a memorial stone known as the «Nine Men's Misery» marks the site of a mass grave where some of the battle's casualties were buried.

Jugovic is also hoping to fund a Holocaust memorial site in his homeland for the Serbian war victims, especially the 110,000 children who perished.