It's a holiday here in the States, and I don't feel like doing a post. You can't make me!
I stole this picture (and description) from Al's blog.
"Unique among Battery Park's many monuments and statues, the American Merchant Mariners' Memorial recalls the more than six thousand sailors who, pressed into auxiliary naval service to transport troops and materiel, sacrificed their lives during World War II. Based on a photograph taken from the deck of the German ship that dispatched one of these vessels to the bottom, Marisol Escobar's easily overlooked sculpture in Battery Park captures the essential horror and despair, as well as the heroism, of war."
I'll be back tomorrow with an update on what's happening at humor-blogs.com.
I stole this picture (and description) from Al's blog.
"Unique among Battery Park's many monuments and statues, the American Merchant Mariners' Memorial recalls the more than six thousand sailors who, pressed into auxiliary naval service to transport troops and materiel, sacrificed their lives during World War II. Based on a photograph taken from the deck of the German ship that dispatched one of these vessels to the bottom, Marisol Escobar's easily overlooked sculpture in Battery Park captures the essential horror and despair, as well as the heroism, of war."
I'll be back tomorrow with an update on what's happening at humor-blogs.com.
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May all who served and died to protect us, forever rest in peace.
Powerful picture, Diesel. I may not always respect war, but I defintely respect soldiers. And I am forever grateful for my freedom and indebted to those who worked so hard to achieve it.
I thought you had every day off. What's this with not wanting to post on holidays? Sheesh...
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that brings the whole reason for the day into perspective.
thank you for drawing to uor attention the service of an often overlooked group and such a powerful display.
War statues always get me. The thought of soldiers and what they have endured is hard enough to bear, the pain inmemorial gets me in the gut and stays. I suppose that is the point of them.
I stopped by to make you write a post, but then I realized that you are right. I can't make you.
I now realize that we have been taking you for granted. In fact, I now realize that we take the entire Internet for granted.
Suddenly, I am starting to find this whole line of thought depressing. I need to go find a site that panders to the more basic yearnings of man's inner soul--preferably a site with a lot of hooters.
Later...
i hope you have the chance to see that amazing monument in person some day, Diesel. it's truly profound in it's beauty and message. one of the most fascinating aspects is the look on the face of the guy in the water. this picture only shows his hands, but when the tide is lower, you can see more of his upper body -- and the look of sheer terror on his face is, for lack of a better word, haunting.
one hell of a reminder of the price so many paid in the past in order to insure we'd be free and safe in the here and now.
hope your day was as remarkable and fun as you are, my friend! xox
Wow....great art for a truly deserved holiday.
That's a hell of a sculpture.
That is an amazingly powerful sculpture!
That statue gives me goosebumps. My grandfather died in World War II, he was Dutch and was captured by the Germans, where he supposedly died of a heart attack in a prison camp. The sad thing is that the world seems to have learned very little since then.
Thanks, Deez.