Photo Hunt No. 13 - Memorial

[Kathy (Trekcapri)]

This week’s Photo Hunt No. 13 (Week of May 28) – Memorial

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It’s wonderful to see how everyone’s photos capture the colors in everything we see around us (either at home or while traveling). Loved the colorful food and storefront displays, gardens, flowers, traditional costumes, reflections of light, keepers of bees, mailboxes to put our mail in, and those amazing hot air balloons that rise high above to add a bit of color to the sky.

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Photo Hunt No. 14 (Week of June 4) – Funny
Photo Hunt No. 15 (Week of June 11) – Chocolate
Photo Hunt No. 15 (Week of June 18) – Tradition
Photo Hunt No. 16 (Week of June 25) – Music/Musical

In a picturesque setting situated by the edge of Lock Sheil, the Glenfinnan Monument stands as tribute to those who fought in the Jacobite Risings. This is a wonderful stop to make if you find yourself driving the very beautiful Road to the Isles in Scotland.

Glenfinnan Monument, Scotland

• Kathy (Trekcapri)
• May 28, 2017

 

[JustTravel]

Paris Deportation Memorial

• JustTravel
• May 28, 2017

....flooded in June 2016

......flooded June 2016

 

[Colo]

In my travels, I have had a chance to see many monuments, memorials, and hallowed places that caused me to reflect on days and deeds gone by. One such place stands out more than any other. On a very hot day is September a group of us traveled 70 miles west of Alexandria, Egypt to the cemetery for those who had fallen in the battle for North Africa. The final resting place for many who fought in the deserts now buried in El Alamein.

Standing there looking out one sees 1000s of head stones and miles of desert. The heat was stifling and then I saw the count of the fallen and paused to try to understand that number.

There were 100s of graves where three stones were side by side. I took moment then I realized they were tank crews who died together.

Their age etched in stone only heighten the sense of how many who were so young were lost.

Walking through rows and rows of headstones, I stopped in front of this one and it shook me to the core. They may only be known to God, but never forgotten by this individual.

I live near Arlington Cemetery where many U.S. Soldiers and Sailors have found their final resting place. The rolling hills, mature trees, and green grass gives one some sense of peace that they are home. Then I remember those young men who now lay under the burning sun, with blowing sand that is unescapable, and so far from home and family it made this memorial like no other for me.

 

[Katt B]

Tribute to Malta on behalf of the people of the United States of America, December 1943. Valletta, Malta.
(Click to enlarge)

 

[PatrickLondon]

One sad memorial:

and one to make you wonder..
The tomb of Dame Mary Page (died 1728), with the inscription:
In 67 months she was tap'd 66 times, had taken away 240 gallons of water, without ever repining for her case, or fearing the operation.

 

[joe]

Two from north-west Italy. The first from the town square in Bubbio, Piemonte, and the second from a backroad near Pecorara, Piacenza.

 

[Roz]

This memorial sign outside a school in Paris made me cry when I first saw it. For those who don't know French it says, more or less:

To the memory of the children, students of this school, deported from 1942 to 1944, because they were born Jews, innocent victims of Nazi barbarianism with the active compliance of the government of Vichy. They were exterminated in the death camps. Let us never forget them.​

 

[PatrickLondon]

Sadly, those signs are to be seen on many schools in Paris.

I was just noticing today how many smaller memorials there are in my part of London, one on a former fire station to a couple of young women auxiliary staff who were the first local victims of the Blitz, one on the site of an air raid shelter that took a direct hit, and a garden installed on previously unused space as a memorial to all its victims.

And then there are some other local historical events, from a dispute in the 1920s over how to raise and re-distribute taxes to relieve the poverty caused by economic depression:

to a famous popular counter-demonstration against a planned march of fascists through a strongly left-wing and Jewish area in 1936 (the "Battle of Cable St"):

 

[Pauline]

... The tomb of Dame Mary Page (died 1728), with the inscription:
In 67 months she was tap'd 66 times, had taken away 240 gallons of water, without ever repining for her case, or fearing the operation.

I couldn't understand this so looked it up. Londonist explains it.

"Her ladyship suffered from a form of dropsy (some have suggested Meigs' syndrome) that caused excess fluid to build in the space around her lungs. The poor lady must have endured enormous difficulties. 240 gallons is equivalent to 1,920 pints — or about 29 pints on each of the 66 times she was 'tapd'. Surely an exaggeration?"

 

[aap519]

Temporary Memorial set up on the Promenade des Anglais after the 14 July 2016 incident in Nice, France.

 

[Pauline]

The Missing of the Somme, Picardy region north of Paris. On the memorial: Aux Armees Francaise et Britannique l'Empire Britannique Reconnaissant, 1914 - 1918. The names of the missing are listed on the white columns.