Sentences with phrase «war memorials in»

In a shocking twist on the scandal surrounding MPs» outrageous expenses claims, onetime Tory whip Gray moaned he was # 60 down on the deal after buying three poppy tributes to Britain's fallen heroes to place at war memorials in his North Wiltshire constituency.

In 2013, the Obama administration shut down the national parks when the GOP had their last government shutdown, which oddly included the open - access war memorials in Washington DC.

This is a special charity that pays for veterans and their loved ones to visit the war memorials in our nations capital that was built to honor them and their service.

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..

The GOP hopefuls tried to tie their respective Democratic targets to the president, though gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino went one step further, calling on Congress to declare the entire World Trade Center «district» a war memorial in order to block what he has deemed the «victory mosque» from being built.

For the right price, the War Memorial in Syracuse will be changing its name this season.

FILE - People wait outside the State Street entrance to the Onondaga County War Memorial in Syracuse at about 8:30 a.m. to purchase tickets for a Phish concert scheduled for Nov. 22, 2009.

NEW ROCHELLE, NY — Under the guidance of Peter Parente, president of The United Veterans Memorial & Patriotic Association of New Rochelle, NY, the association has received permission from the City Council to install a Vietnam War Memorial in

A new temporary display at the War Memorial in Syracuse is meant to preserve the legacy of those who fought during World War II.

(Rucker is at the War Memorial in Syracuse tonight).

The Vietnam War Memorial in Washington D.C..

BROOKLYN HEIGHTS — The start of renovations to bring the long - shuttered Brooklyn War Memorial in compliance with ADA guidelines is slated to begin next year, officials said.

Imagine convincing the grandchild of someone who survived a concentration camp that Leni Riefenstahl brilliantly captured the pain of the German people when she had Hitler lay a wreath on the Great War memorial in Triumph Of The Will.

Faith - Based Family Film Finds Believer and Doubting Thomas Bonding En Route to Vietnam War Memorial in DC

The most famous Commonwealth War Memorial in Flanders, tens of thousands of soldiers passed through on the way to the front.

Use the day to remind students of the etching on the Korean War Memorial in Washington, D.C.:...

Melbourne and Sydney Australia have several notable Art Deco buildings, including the Manchester Unity Building and the former Russell Street Police Headquarters in Melbourne, the Castlemaine Art Museum in Castlemaine, central Victoria and the Grace Building, AWA Tower and ANZAC War Memorial in Sydney.

The largest war memorial in the world and dedicated to the casualties of World War I, the modern version of the Great Ocean Road was built by returning soldiers from 1919 to 1932.

It stands astride the largest enduring war memorial in the world, «The Great Ocean Road», a living memorial to our forefathers.

Juxtaposing images of the First World War memorial in the churchyard with the cranes and girders of contemporary urban development, Emin's personal heartache now becomes a metaphor for the lives fractured by the conflict, the passage of time and for the loss and eradication — as well as survival and perpetuation — of history and memory within the built environment.

Before leaving Russia, he was commissioned to create wooden sculptures in public parks and gardens in Odessa, Ukraine, and a monumental war memorial in Kazakhstan, formerly a Soviet republic.

The refined restoration of an existing industrial complex and newly constructed contemporary arts centre in The Azores (Arquipelago) Contemporary Arts Centre); a radical new culture centre and public space in the capital of Azerbaijan, (Heydar Aliyev Centre); a new museum of contemporary art in the heart of Mexico City (Museo Jumex); a new civic library and concert hall in northern Norway (Stormen Concert Hall, Theatre and Public Library); a war memorial in Northern France engraved with names of the thousands who died in WWI (The Ring of Remembrance, International WWI Memorial of Notre - Dame - de-Lorette) and a university of engineering in Lima (UTEC — Universidad de Ingenieria y Tecnologia).

Not exact matches

Crowds look on as the super moon rises behind the Fremantle War Memorial at Monument Hill on November 14, 2016 in Fremantle, Australia.

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

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.

When Mrs. Slatterly warned the younger girls last Easter to be careful with the altar cross because it was a memorial to Jim Hope, who had been killed in World War II, she was educating them about their heritage.

I am a survivor and it will not bother me at all if you smile in your picture at the Vietnam war memorial.

A crucifix is among memorials dedicated to airmen in the First and Second World Wars that have been given... More

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.

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.

In the desert a war memorial cross erected many years ago torn down by vandals and they have had to go to court to try to put it back up and Obam is still blocking the way.

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.&raquIn 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.&raquin stone on the Korean War Memorial on the National Mall, that «freedom is never free.»

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.

The two teams will meet on supposedly neutral turf (War Memorial Stadium in Arkansas) this weekend, and the public has been all over the Razorbacks.

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.

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.

He was granted the Hungarian Pulitzer Memorial Award in 2002 for his book on Hungary's «media war» (A magyarországi médiaháború, 2001).

FILE PHOTO: World War Two veteran and former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole attends Memorial day services at the World War II Memorial in Washington, U.S., November 11, 2016.

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 prograIn 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 prograin the Assembly and Senate's annual legislative internship program.