Posts Tagged ‘National Park’
HBO Honors 250 Veterans on Thursday March 11th, 2010
HBO will be flying 250 veterans plus their guardians into Washington, DC on Wednesday and they will begin to assemble at the WWII Memorial around 11 on Thursday. The tentative schedule for the ceremony will be: 11:00am – 11:30am: Guests arrive at Memorial (seated in the Ceremonial Entrance Plaza) Vets (with their Guardians) will assemble near the Park Ranger Office (outside the […]
HBO coordinates with Honor Flight to kick off the Season
Hello Dedicated Honor Flight Ground Crew and NEW Volunteers! Honor Flight is starting the season off with a tremendous event. 400 WWII veterans from Chicago, Cleveland, Boston, New York, and Orlando are being flown to DC to view a screening of HBO “The Pacific” and to see the memorial built in their honor. We have […]
Honor Flight Training for Washington, DC guardians
In preparation for Honor Flight season and several flights that are requesting multiple guardians from the local area – we are scheduling Guardian Training for any who would be interested in attending. The training will be held at: American Legion Dyer Gunnell Post 180 330 North Center Street Vienna, VA 22180 1-3 PM or 1300-1500 “The […]
Frank Buckles and the WWI Memorial
From Susan Barr Frank Buckles, 108, the last remaining US veteran of World War I, was going before a US Senate sub-committee today to re-designate the WWI Memorial in DC, as THE WWI Memorial. The WWI Memorial is located between the WWII and Korean War Monuments on Independence Avenue, and is not located on most […]
George Kerestes on Greeting Veterans at the WWII Memorial
George Kerestes was interviewed by South Dakota’s Keloland Television and got a nice write up regarding his four years of greeting Veterans at the WWII Memorial. He says: “Now that I look back and realize these were my neighbors growing up and I never extended my hand,” Kerestes said. “So in my own way, this […]
Chicago Honor Flight: On the March!
The Windy City rolled into DC which should be renamed the “Soggy City” this year. There were ninety-one Veterans and another 90 guardians in blissful tow. They arrived at the WWII Memorial a bit late in the afternoon because they had visited the other Memorials before they got to the WWII to enable the Veterans […]
D-Day from Bedford, Virginia
Wandering far afield, George Kerestes chose to spend this D-Day in Bedford, “WE DO REMEMBER. WE WILL REMEMBER” Those were the key words from this past weekend when I had the honor to attend the 65th Anniversary of D-Day at the “National D-Day Memorial” in Bedford Virginia. On that day I was one of over 4,000 […]
Battle of Midway Talk at WWII Memorial
Daniel Arant will be giving a Battle of Midway talk this Saturday (06 June) and selected following Saturdays at WWII Memorial. He will have a display of about sixty annotated 8×10 photos provided by U.S. Naval Institute, graphics, and Pacific Ocean map. The talk lasts about 20 minutes. Weather forecast so far looks good for this Saturday.
Brian Duffy on Honor Flight
We flew a trip on May 16, 2009 with the “regular” array of our WWII heroes. I ushered them through the normal choreography of visiting the WWII Memorial, Iwo Jima Marine Memorial and the Korean War Memorial in one day. When we offloaded at the Korean Memorial, one of the veterans asked “Brian, are […]
In the Wind
Their are 650,000 motorcycles in town scheduled to ride the Rolling Thunder Ride and one of the Fairfax American Legion riders on a trike offered Senator Elizabeth Dole a ride. She hopped right on and off they went. She is game for everything and it was a pleasure for everyone to see her on the […]
“And that’s how we roll….”
What a day!!! The rain held off and Prattville Alabama’s schoolchildren turned out to welcome arriving eight hubs to the WWII Memorial. Serendipitously, their school trip to DC coinicided with the Alabama hub’s plans and they formed up to cheer the Veterans from all the hubs as they entered and left the Memorial. Great stuff! […]
Five Years
Thanks to Mary Pettinato for reminding me today that it was five years today that the World War II Memorial was opened. Twenty four hours before that I was riding around in a cherry picker 24/7 photographing the last scenics without people. It was pretty cool having it all to myself! Then all of you […]
Five Years Today – World War II Memorial
Mary Pettinato reminded me today that it was five years today that the Memorial was opened (top left). “…On April 29, 2004, the National World War II Memorial opened in Washington, D.C., to thousands of visitors, providing overdue recognition for the 16 million U.S. men and women who served in the war. The memorial is […]
“Falling out of the sky”
This Saturday, April 18th George Kerestes told me veterans were “falling out of the sky.” And he was right! 450 veterans from North Carolina, New York, and “more” from North Carolina, the Winnebago flight, Faye Wisely from Michigan, and Dian Holland brought veterans from all over to see the World War II Memorial. The weather […]
The Mall
I’ve been scanning seemingly zillions of photographs I’ve taken over the past thirty years. Today, I found this picture taken in 1997. It was made on an early Fall morning for an advertising poster for Australian Radio. At that time, the big reflecting pool was practically always empty and the Memorial’s original pool was a […]
Signs of Spring at World War II Memorial
From the front lines!!! …Emails from George Kerestes and Kari Beasley are sure signs that Spring is on its way and the flights will soon beginning. Judy Lemmons wrote that three flights will be here April 23, 24th and 25th. The fountains are still off but the World War II Memorial is still crowded with […]
Res Ipsa Loquitur
100 Yards from Vietnam Memorial I have been asking the National Park Service to open the building at the WWII Memorial to a limited and tasteful selection of interpretive and appropriate WWII books. Their response to date: “…we are deliberate in our decision making process with respect to how to appropriately interpret any and all […]
Dear Mary – WWII Memorial Bookstore
October 16, 2008 Mary Bomar National Park Service 1849 C Street NW Washington, DC 20240 Thank you for recognizing my passion for the WWII Memorial and my book. I find your negative conclusions about the use of the building South of the WWII Memorial as a bookstore totally incorrect. However, I will not write you in […]
Rolling Thunder at World War II Memorial
My book still isn’t on display at the World War II Memorial but today the next best thing…. the Honor Flight RV driven by President Jim McLaughlin… was on-site. There are at least twenty of my photos on the RV and my name and website will be on the back bumper. Now that my friends […]
“Women in Military Service to America” Museum
Behind this wall at Arlington Cemetery is the Women in Military Service to American Museum often overlooked because of it’s position just below Lee House. The architects essentially dug behind the retaining wall of the cemetery and put in the most astonishingly beautiful museum in the city. Unfortunately, they can’t get a sign out of […]
1025 yards….a matter of interpretation at World War II Memorial
The first thing people ask at the World War II Memorial is where they can get some more information besides the little pamphlet. I am not the only person behind the movment to make the “building” South of the Memorial capable of selling a few interpretive items. These items are what the NPS likes to […]
Unstoppable: George Kerestes
George Kerestes is one of our Nations’s most outstanding citizens and is on hand every Saturday to greet visitors and talk up the World War II Memorial. He works at the Department of Energy and walks at lunchtime, sometimes adorned in a red, white and blue tie to get his “constitutional” and say hello to […]
Unflappable
Much like the National Park Service, the so-called Canadian Geese have immigrated to the United States and sit fat and happy enjoying the largesse of the American People. The leadership of the Park Service are currently asking for 50 million they claim they need to “maintain” the National Mall. They might try selling books at […]
Technology and Art, World War II Memorial
Towards the opening days of the World War II Memorial, much of the stone work was finished and the fountains were being tuned. The eagles were being welded together and you could sit up amongst them on a scaffold. I spent almost two weeks photographing the welding which was very carefully done by Apex Piping. All […]