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Honoring Our Veterans for Their Service Across this nation, there are many stirring monuments
to veterans and the sacrifices they have made for our freedom.
The Women in Military Service for America Memorial, at the gates of The Lone Sailor statue at the U.S. Navy Memorial in Washington, D.C., The Vietnam Veterans Memorial, located on the Mall in Washington The Statue of the Three Servicemen, added in 1984, honors |
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Nearly 2,500 American troops' faces are etched into the black granite of the Korean War Veterans Memorial in Washington. The Memorial also features 19 soldiers who represent the American Navy, Air Force,
Army, and Marines and a South Korean soldier who fought with them. Dedicated in 1995, a plaque at the Korean Memorial honors the 1.5 million Americans who defended "a country they never knew and a people they never met."
Arlington National Cemetery, recognizes the 1.2 million women who served in our nation's Armed Forces. The memorial serves to document the women's experiences and to
tell their stories of service. The memorial was dedicated on October 18, 1997.
This two-story monument is located on the State Capitol Complex in Charleston. Four monoliths are dedicated to those veterans who served in
World War I, World War II, Korea and Vietnam, with the names of those who sacrificed their lives etched within the memorial's sanctuary.
is dedicated to all those who have ever served in the Navy.
The bronze used in the casting included artifacts from eight Naval ships, including fragments from the post-revolutionary ships U.S.S. Constitution and Constellation; the Civil War-era U.S.S. Hartford; the battleship U.S.S. Maine; the
iron-hulled steamer/sailing ship U.S.S. Ranger; the World War II-era cruiser U.S.S. Biloxi; the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Hancock, and the nuclear-powered submarine U.S.S. Seawolf. The latest addition was bits of metal from a
National Defense Service Medal which can be awarded to sailors either in war or peace.
, D.C., near the Lincoln Memorial, serves as a testament
to those men and women who fought for our country during one of the nation's most unpopular conflicts. The Memorial is actually a three-part tribute. The Wall, built in 1982, is etched with the names of more than 58,000 members of
America's Armed Forces who either died during the fight or are still listed as missing in action.
the veterans of
the various services. The statues include the uniforms and 
ordinance of the various branches of the military involved in the Vietnam War. In 1993, the Vietnam Women's Memorial was added to the site. The bronze statue depicts three
women including one of whom is tending to a wounded soldier. Trees planted around the statue's plaza commemorate the women who died in Vietnam.
One of the largest bronze sculptures in the world, the U.S. Marine Memorial,
which is more commonly referred to as the Iwo Jima Memorial, pictures six Marines raising the U.S. flag atop Mount Suribachi, the highest point on Iwo Jima. Circling the monument's polished black granite base are the names of all U.S.
Marine Corps military actions, from the American Revolution to the present day.