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Air Force Memorial
By Pinch
On a bit of land near the Pentagon, next to Arlington Cemetary, construction continues on the Air Force Memorial, a soaring, stylized trio of silver arcs, evoking the "...modern image of flight by jet and space vehicles."
The other services have memorials scattered throughout the Washington DC area - the Navy Memorial downtown on Pennsylvania Avenue, the Marine Corps War Memorial over near Rosslyn, and the US Army First Division Memorial just outside the Old Executive office Building and others.
Dedication is only a little over a month away for the memorial, scheduled for 14/15 October.
Should be quite the party that weekend in town! I'll try to be there - unless I have crew rest I need to catch up on!
In all seriousness though, it will be a wonderful and beautiful addition to the skyline surrounding the city.
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I knew they were planning to build this sucker, I just had no idea they were so far along. Sweet.
So how are they going to load the big red glass ball that sits into that holder like you see in backyards around the country?
Sorry, but I drive by this thing every day on the way to the Navy Yard and it looks like a nicely stylized support for a water tower.
As an AF vet, I admit I'm biased, but I like it. For those who don't see it, it is a stylized interpretation of a Bomb Burst.
Sorry. Messed up the link. Here is the URL...
http://www.talkingproud.us/ImagesMilitary/USAFMemorial/BombBurst.jpg
This old AF vet ain't impressed.
Maybe they should have been true to the troops and just erected a huge coffee cup.
:COFFEE BREAK:
That's the other SAC motto, BTW.
"To err is human but to forgive is just not SAC policy."
Will spare you the description of the accompanying graphic on that one.
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Is it bad if I don't like it?
I mean, it's okay. But when compared to, say, the USMC one, or Korean war, etc. eh, it just doesn't do much for me.
Too "modern art", imo.