Sentences with phrase «of war memorials»

As well as using the materials on this website, you can arrange for our Learning Officer to visit your school to teach a lesson or lead an assembly or talk with your pupils on the topic of war memorials.

You can use some of War Memorials Trust's resources to help pupils understand more about Remembrance.

There is also a canal you can stroll down with a couple of war memorials... a zoo, a minor league baseball field and the Children's Museum (those aren't free) but they are all amazing and not just for kids.

Duncan Wilson, chief executive of Historic England said: «The listing and upgrading of these war memorials dedicated to members of the air services helps to tell the story of Britain's wartime aviation history and marks the centenary of the formation of the Royal Air Force.

Onondaga County officials laid out tentative plans for an $ 8.5 million renovation of the War Memorial, including a few new details such as a VIP lounge styled after a military officers club.

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

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Onondaga County officials today laid out tentative plans for an $ 8.5 million renovation of the War Memorial, including a few new details such as a VIP lounge styled after a military officers club.

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.

There is a ceremony Monday afternoon in Dutchess County to transfer ownership of a war memorial.

Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams has already allocated $ 1 million toward the re-opening of the War Memorial, and another $ 500,000 to transforming park space between Borough Hall and the Brooklyn Bridge, according to the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.

Elio and Oliver wrap around opposite sides of the war memorial.

Situated in Ord Street Fremantle, nestling in front of the War Memorial, we have six studio apartments in an apartment block.

1935: On Jan. 18, the San Francisco Museum of Art, under the leadership of founding director Grace McCann Morley, opens on the fourth floor of the War Memorial Veterans Building on Van Ness Avenue.

They will then be on view for an additional week, April 6 - 13, in the lobby of the War Memorial Veterans Building, 401 Van Ness Ave.

[This excellent resource can be borrowed by schools and interested people, contact the education section of the War Memorial for details]

Not exact matches

Memorial in Washington, D.C. and the Pacific Arch of the National World War II Memorial.

Re-dedicating the National War Memorial to the memory of all men and women who fought for our country;

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.

Lieutenant General Robin Brims, a Christian who served in Ireland, Bosnia and Iraq, told Premier: «When the names on war memorials were read out [as a child], there were names of people who were clearly related to me.

This is a memorial and not a place so far right theocratic crazies can wage their pathetic war of ideology.

Interesting... Apparently the advice of Washington, Thoreau * and Eisenhower were ignored, Chief Joseph represents surrender to those who would take everything you have and the war memorial is, well, a war memorial... I guess the message of this essay is we ignore good advice and you were unfortunate to be born indigenous?

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.

Hollywood films followed, along with well - known lovers, global tours, monkey and peacock and cheetah pets, work with the Resistance during the war, charges of anti-Americanism and fellow - traveling, stays in Cuba as the personal guest of Castro, opposition to segregation in the United States, and a turn at the microphone at the Lincoln Memorial in August 1963.

# 5 Memorial and reminder of the fruits of pointless aggressive foreign wars.

At least some people think of the statue as a war memorial.

The statue has been in place since 1954, when the Knights of Columbus donated it — though this part is a matter of some dispute — as a war memorial.

«This year for the first time Oadby Multicultural Group will be laying a wreath at the War Memorial as well as the one I will lay on behalf of the parish and we do want people of all faiths who are paying respect to those from their own faiths and cultures who served and gave their lives, to feel welcome in the service.

The war memorials, the Remembrance Services and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier were all inspired to some extent by Catholic practice.

At times the elegiac element of Civil War memorials becomes explicit, as in the inscription on the Georgia monument raised at Winchester, VA, in 1884, during the War's twentieth anniversary — the same year in which the Lee statue in New Orleans was raised.

A crucifix is among memorials dedicated to airmen in the First and Second World Wars that have been given heritage protection to mark the centenary of the Royal Air Force.

We fail in our responsibility to history when we do not permit ourselves to see Civil War memorials from a Romantic point of view, and when we fail to recognize the phrase «lost cause» as a shorthand for a morally complex, tragic understanding of the South's defeat.

Jalame is a town of degrading poverty, which is evident in the pot - holed roads (when they're paved at all), storefront vegetable stands and shells of buildings — memorials to the wars that never end.

His lecture at Tremont Temple, «The Duties of the Americans in the Present War,» on January 30, 1916, and his essay «The Destruction of the Lusitania» (along with an address delivered before 2,500 people at a memorial for the first anniversary of the Lusitania's sinking) elevated Royce into «the leading anti-German ideologue,» according to his biographer Bruce Kuklick.

In the first year of the new century, we have been rudely reminded of the fragility of freedom — of the hard fact, chiseled in stone on the Korean War Memorial on the National Mall, that «freedom is never free.»

The length of the Vietnam War Memorial «hypotenuse» is about 133 meters.

One Memorial Day, Dave and I had a picnic in historic Washington Square, on the edge of Olde City Philadelphia, which contains the Tomb of the Unknown Revolutionary War Soldier.

The New Mexico State Legislature and Governor King quickly passed Senate Joint Memorial 5, which stated, in part and with considerable exaggeration: «Whereas, despite New Mexico's long and rich chile history and prehistory, with solid archaeological evidence indicating the continuous use of both red and green chile since the time of Folsom Man some twelve thousand years ago [this is not true], we now find «Texas Man» claiming the noble chile as his; and whereas despite the facts, we hear boasting from east of the Pecos that «The Lone Star State» is the chili capital of the Southwest... and Texas chefs malign the noble «red and green» by blending it into a slurry of kidney beans and onions called chili; now, therefore, be it resolved by the Legislature of the State of New Mexico that the Land of Enchantment bets the «whole enchilada» and its reputation as the Chile Capital of the World against the Lone Star State in the Mother of All Chile Wars Festival to be held May 29 - 31, 1993 at the Doña Ana County Fairgrounds.»

In the»64 finale, at Buffalo's frigid War Memorial Stadium, San Diego scored on its first possession, but on the next one Lincoln was knocked out of action when a shot by linebacker Mike Stratton broke several ribs.

Wyoming comes in at 4 - 4 and has dropped their last two games, but their offense ranks as one of the better units in the country and there should be a capacity crowd on hand at War Memorial Stadium.

Iwo Jima is familiar to most Americans thanks to a John Wayne movie and the famous photo of the flag - raising on Mount Suribachi, which is immortalized at the Marine Corps War Memorial in Arlington, Va..

A World War II veteran, Mr. Wegerer was a founder of the Mt. Prospect Veterans Memorial Foundation.

Cuomo announced the unveiling of an exhibit in the Capitol that honors New York's service men and women who have died in war, as well as highlighting the state's leading role in the birth of the Memorial Day holiday.

«New York's Congressional delegation must move immediately to sponsor and pass a law that declares the entire World Trade Center district a War Memorial where one group of Americans may not move to insult another class of citizens.»

Senior House Natural Resources Committee Republicans sent their own letter Wednesday to National Park Service Director Jonathan Jarvis to ask him to «take steps as necessary to keep and not destroy documents related to the decision this week to restrict public access» to open - air memorials and monuments in the Washington area, including those honoring veterans of multiple wars, Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King.

Vice President Mike Pence will join President Moon of the Republic of Korea for a wreath - laying ceremony at the Korean War Veterans Memorial.

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-...]

In advance of Memorial Day, New York State Senator Bill Larkin (R,C - Cornwall - on - Hudson), a World War II and Korean War combat veteran, and Assemblyman Jim Tedisco (R,C,I - Glenville) today introduced new legislation to create the G.I.V.E. Back NY program (Giving Internships for disabled Veterans not fully Employed) to enable disabled veterans to participate in the Assembly and Senate's annual legislative internship program.

State Sen. Tony Avella (D - Bayside) honored four veterans of World War II and the Vietnam War at his office last Thursday in anticipation of Memorial Day.

State Sen. Tony Avella (l.) honored World War II veteran Frank Peloso of the Whitestone VFW and others before Memorial Day last week.

Messer, who is running for New York's 16th senate district, announced his advocacy for Councilman Peter Koo's memorial in Flushing to the «Comfort Women» of World War II, according to an official statement.