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[1] The proper right side of the memorial area is designated to honor law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty. The bronze medallion atop the Indiana Limestone pylon displays a uniformed police officer standing next to Saint Michael Archangel, patron of police. In the center of each of the two pylons are laminated books which ...
War memorial in East Ilsley, restored in 2008, and featuring combined original list of World War I and later World War II names [334] Elsewhere, changes in post-war politics impacted considerably on the memorials. in Belgium, the Flemish IJzertoren tower had become associated with Fascism during the Second World War and was blown up in 1946 by ...
Nonetheless, in 1854, the New York City Police Department became the United States' first municipal police force to issue uniforms to its officers. New York City was followed, in 1858, by Boston, Chicago, and soon thereafter, other cities. The first uniform consisted of a long navy blue coat with a velvet collar, and a blue cap.
The National World War I Memorial is a national memorial commemorating the service rendered by members of the United States Armed Forces in World War I.The 2015 National Defense Authorization Act authorized the World War I Centennial Commission to build the memorial in Pershing Park, located at 14th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C.
In 2004, Congress named it the nation's official World War I museum, and construction started on a new 80,000-square-foot (7,400 m 2) expansion and the Edward Jones Research Center underneath the original memorial, which was completed in 2006. The Liberty Memorial was designated a National Historic Landmark on September 20, 2006.
Two soldiers in the uniform of the Northumberland Fusiliers stand either side of St George, one from the First World War to the right, and one from the founding of the regiment in 1674 to the left. [2] The base of the memorial is surrounded by municipal patches of flowers, which used to be a more simple patch of grass. [3]