by Susan | Dec 10, 2018 | Monuments
The Nobel Peace Park covers one acre inside Alton Baker Park, a large city park on the east bank of the Willamette River across from downtown. Dedicated in 2013, in a double-spiraled wall, it honors, with biographical plaques, the 24 US recipients of the Nobel Peace...
by Susan | Dec 3, 2018 | Monuments
The memorial, In the National Memorial Arboretum is to British Army and Commonwealth soldiers executed by firing squad during the First World War. It is alleged that soldiers accused of cowardice were often not given fair trials; they were often not properly defended,...
by Susan | Nov 26, 2018 | Monuments
The German-language Treue der Union Monument (loyalty to the Union) was dedicated on August 10, 1866 to commemorate those who died at the 1862 Nueces massacre. In 1862, the Confederate States of America imposed martial law on Central Texas, due to resistance to the...
by Susan | Nov 19, 2018 | Monuments
In 2009, architect Ruedi Baur constructed a memorial in Cologne for those who have refused to fight. It is a bus shelter with these words on the roof: Homage to the soldiers who refused to shoot at the soldiers, who refused to shoot at the people, who refused to...
by Susan | Nov 12, 2018 | Monuments
Between 1939 and 1945, about 400,000 German soldiers (2% of the total) deserted or attempted to desert, not counting those surrendering in battle. 30,000 of them were caught in the act, 23,000 of those were executed. This was the first of the monuments now in Germany...
by Susan | Nov 5, 2018 | Monuments
There are more than 1,500 statues on public land in the city of Philadelphia but, until last year, not one of them represents an African-American. This changed on 26 September, 2017 when A 12-foot bronze statue of Octavius V. Catto — 19th century educator, baseball...
