The Perpetual Light Peace is a 1938 Gettysburg War monument dedicated to July 3, 1938, commemorating the 1972 Gettysburg reunion for the 50th Gettysburg Battle of War on July 3, 1913. Flames of natural gas in one ton of jug bronze is located above the tower on a stone pedestrian patio with views over a hilltop terrace over 400 m² (1,000 km <2>) ), and the flames are visible from 20 mi (32 km).
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In 1887, the "Philadelphia Brigade, Colonel Cowan and others" advocated "a great monument to American Heroes on this battlefield", and President William McKinley spoke to Cowan about North/South peace in 1900. "The first tentative program" of October 1910 for a Gettysburg reunion in 1913 to plan a "Peace Jubile" to be held on the "National Day" by a speech by President Woodrow Wilson and the foundation placement for the "Great Peace Memorial" during the day. However, after "presented, January 11, 1912, to the Joint Committee of Congress [for] the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg", funding "was found, in March 1912, impossible achievement in the 62nd Congress". Instead of laying the foundation, on July 3 during the New York Veterans' Celebration in the 1913 Great Tent, Colonel Andrew Cowan gave a memorial advocacy speech, and "steps to achieve that goal were immediately taken... which resulted in the Gettysburg Peace Memorial Association being formed...... The Association bill, on December 20, 1913, presented to Congress... created the Gettysburg Memorial Commission. "
His initial plan was for a $ 250,000 "peace monument" in The Angle, but despite the 1914 "Peace Memorial Bill" presentation to the US House of Representatives comparing planned warnings with Christ the Redeemer of the Andes and Lincoln Memorial, federal funds remained "postponed". In August 1936, the commemorative commission issued 10,000 four-page circles to publicize its plans, and Virginia in 1936 was the first to obtain the appropriate funding. In 1937, the Pennsylvania legislature began planning a peace warning in the Big Round Top, and the state's "Peace Memorial Bill" was signed on 24 February 1937, to earn $ 5,000 for the state's "Gettysburg Peace Memorial fund". The Peace commemoration committee was chosen from 6 designs in August 1937 and on December 10, 1937, Lee Lawrie was announced as a sculptor for the " facing Big Round Top [and] Little Round Top" structure. With additional funding by New York, Indiana, Tennessee, Illinois, and Wisconsin; the $ 60,000 monument was completed in northwestern Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Groundbreaking was conducted on February 14, and the final leg of the pipeline for gas supply was placed on May 31.
Dedication
Attendance for a memorial dedication at Gettysburg 1938 reunion on July 3 was 250,000; more than 100,000 people tried to attend but failed to arrive because of the traffic jam. President Franklin D. Roosevelt arrived at a temporary platform on the train specially via Reading Railroad from the North after leaving Springwood at Hyde Park NY that morning. The US 3d Cavalry Division escorted the President's motorcade to a memorial at Oak Hill, and Roosevelt's open car arrived with the honor of 21 pistols.
Roosevelt uses a "new Mobile voice system unit" to greet audiences including veterans on a specially built roof under the canopy. As the nine-minute speech ends at sunset, the Peace Memorial covered by the 50-foot flag was unveiled by George N. Lockwood and Konfederate AG Harris (both ages 91) with two regular army officers, a photocell automatically lighting the Grand Army of the Reverend Republic Martin V. Stone ended the ceremony with a prayer of worship, and on the way to his car Roosevelt spoke with the oldest veteran who ever attended, William Barnes of the US Colored Army, age 112. Battery Artillery Medan Sixth near Oak Hill fired 21 times the gun salute when the President departed at 7 nights (Train to Washington using Western Maryland Railroad.
The fire was reduced to pilot light during World War II (from 25 December 1941) and shortly before the 1946 Paris peace conference, President Truman commented on the motto that read, Eternal Peace in the United Nations : "That's what we want, but let's change that word (nation) to the world and we will have something. " The worsening Alabama limestone at the bottom that had been approved for use by the Bureau of Standards was replaced with gray granite in June 1941, and repairs were also made in 1950. A 1962 protest against nuclear weapons and testing was held at the memorial, the fire was extinguished in 1974 because of the oil crisis after the 93rd United States Congress banned such flames (except for the Eternal Fire of John F. Kennedy), and the extinguishing gas fire was replaced by electric lights in 1976. The Gettysburg Peace Festival Committee in June 1988, and the gas flame was restored at Fiftieth's Rededication of Birthday on 3 July.
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External links
- PSU.edu: Gettysburg Address of Franklin Roosevelt President
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