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United States Navy Memorial

United States Navy Memorial
United States Navy Memorial
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Gründung: 13. Oktober 1987
Adresse: Washington, D.C., 701 Pennsylvania Ave, NW

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Das United States Navy Memorial an der 7th Street zwischen Pennsylvania Avenue und Indiana Avenue in Washington, D.C. (701 Pennsylvania Ave, NW) ehrt diejenigen, die inder der Navy, dem Marine Corps, der Coast Guard und der Merchant Marine gedient haben oder aktuell dienen.

Die Gedenkstätte wird von der United States Navy Memorial Foundation unterhalten, die dabei durch die National Mall and Memorial Parks-Verwaltungseinheit des National Park Service unterstützt wird. Die Gedenkstätte liegt neben der Archives–Navy Memorial–Penn Quarter-Station und dem Gebäude des National Archives.

Das U.S. Navy Memorial Museum ist mit der Gedenkstätte verbunden. Das Museum ist von März bis Oktober von Montag bis Samstag und von November bis Februar von Dienstag bis Samstag geöffnet.

Geschichte

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The Lone Sailor Statue

Für Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard und Mechant Marine gig mit dem United States Navy Memorial ein Jahrhunderte alter Traum in Erfüllung. In den frühen Tagen der nationalen Unabhängigkeit Amerikas malte sich der Architekt Pierre L'Enfant in der Hauptstadt ein Denkmal aus, das "die Entstehung der Navy feiern und die Fortschritte und Errungenschaften segnen solle".Vorlage:Fact Es dauerte aber bis ins 20. Jahrhundert, bis L’Enfants Traum von einem Marinedenkmal in Washington, D.C. realisiert wurde.

Pennsylvania Avenue, “Amerikas Hauptstrasse” , der Boulevard der das U.S. Capitol und das Weiße Haus verbindet, the scene of so many parades, pageants, and national memories, was chosen to be the location.

After President John F. Kennedy – himself a Navy war hero – inspired the redevelopment of Pennsylvania Avenue, another Navy war hero, Admiral Arleigh Burke, proclaimed in 1977 that “we have talked long enough about a Navy Memorial and it's time we did something about it."Vorlage:Fact

In the Spring of 1977, Burke, World War II war hero and former three-term Chief of Naval Operations, started to recruit a group to form the private, non-profit U. S. Navy Memorial Foundation. The following year, the Foundation, led by Rear Admiral William Thompson, USN (Ret.), started to work on the five steps necessary in the building of a memorial in Washington: enabling legislation, design, site selection, fund raising and construction and maintenance.

Congress authorized the Memorial in 1980, with the stipulation that funding come solely from private contributions. In March 1980, President Jimmy Carter signed Public Law 96-199, which authorized the Memorial as a part of a larger Department of the Interior bill.

Although a number of sites in Washington, DC were possible, the Foundation teamed up with the Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corporation to use Market Square as the site for the Memorial. The Foundation and the Corporation jointly selected Conklin Rossant of New York as architects.

Navy Memorial

By December 1985, the Foundation had raised enough funds to warrant a go-ahead approval from the Secretary of the Interior, and construction got underway the following month. (The Foundation staff and Board of Directors had raised $18-million by opening day of the Visitors Center, and fund raising continues today, to retire remaining construction debt and support educational programs undertaken by the Foundation.)

By August 1987, Stanley Bleifeld completed work on the The Lone Sailor statue as construction of the Memorial neared completion at the site.

The Memorial was dedicated on October 13, 1987.

Navy Memorial with Visitors Center in Background

From late 1987 to mid-1990, two buildings were constructed on the Memorial's northern perimeter. The eastern of the two buildings was selected for the Memorial's Visitors Center. The building's shell was sufficiently completed by September 1989 to allow construction to begin for the interior of the Visitors Center. The Visitors Center opened in June 1991 and was formally dedicated on October 12, 1991.

During the summer of 2006, the water in the fountains of the Navy Memorial was colored blue due to the presence of chemicals added to the water to fight algae growth.[1] According to a spokesperson for the memorial, the algae has been surprisingly difficult to remove, and that they "figured it was better to have blue water than to have an algae-encrusted memorial."[2] The blue water was gone by the end of the summer.

The United States Navy Memorial is home to the Memorial Plaza, which features Stanly Bleifield's famous statue, The Lone Sailor. The Lone Sailor, a tribute to all personnel of the sea services, overlooks the Granite Sea, an exact replication of the world's oceans. Surrounding the Granite Sea are two fountain pools, honoring the personnel of the American Navy and the other navies of the world. The southern hemisphere of the Granite Sea is surrounded by 26 bronze bas-reliefs commemorating events, personnel, and communities of the various sea services.

Adjacent to the Memorial Plaza is the Naval Heritage Center, which features the Arleigh Burke Theater, several rotating exhibits about the sea services, and houses several Navy Log kiosks, for easy registration on the Navy Log. The Naval Heritage Center also features daily screenings of the films At Sea and A Day in the Life of the Blue Angels. The Media Resource Center provides a library of printed, audio and video historical documents on the Navy and The Navy Log room has touch-screen kiosks to register and search for Sea Service members and veterans.

Memorial quotes

On an outdoor wall at the Naval Memorial are engraved noteworthy sayings from the history of the US Navy, and who said them. Here are some of them:

  • "Damn the torpedoes, full steam ahead." - Admiral David Farragut - 1864
  • "You may fire when you are ready, Gridley." - Commodore George Dewey - 1898
  • "That's one small step for (a) man, one giant leap for mankind" - Captain Neil Armstrong - July, 20 1969

See also

References

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  1. Kelly, John: John Kelly's Washington Live. In: The Washington Post. 30. Juni 2006, abgerufen am 21. August 2006.
  2. Michael Grass: Blue Hue vs. Residue (PDF) In: Express, The Washington Post, August 17, 2006, S. 36. Abgerufen am 21. August 2006 (english). 
  3. Famous Navy Quotes. In: U.S. Navy Memorial web site. Abgerufen am 21. September 2007.