Hillcrest Veterans Memorial
Introduction
Text-to-speech Audio
Images
Full frame of memorial
Photo of plaque
Human scale comparison
Backstory and Context
Text-to-speech Audio
The Plaque reads:
IN HONOR OF THE
MEN WHO SERVED IN DEFENSE
OF OUR COUNTRY
AND IN SACRED MEMORY OF
THOSE WHO MADE
THE SUPREME SACRIFCE
The Inscription on the monument itself reads:
WE SHALL KEEP THE FAITH
WE CHERISH, TOO, THE POPPY RED
THAT GROWS ON FIELDS WHERE VALOR LED;
IT SEEMS TO SIGNAL TO THE SKIES
THAT BLOOD OF HEROES NEVER DIES,
OF THE FLOWER THAT BLOOMS ABOVE THE HEAD
IN FLANDERS FIELD
MOINA MICHAEL
NOVEMBER 1918
Moina Michael was a professor teaching at the University of Georgia in 1917, the year the United States entered World War I. Michael was in Europe during the early and mid-summer of 1914 and when war broke out in August, she travelled to Rome to try and return to the United States. While there, she helped 12,000 American tourists return home, crossing the Atlantic Ocean. She returned to the United States on the RMS Carpathia (the ship that rescued the survivors of the Titanic) and resumed teaching.
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillcrest_Veterans_Square
https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/hillcrest-veterans-square
https://www.revolvy.com/main/index.php?s=Moina%20Michael
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