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Exceptional Events Since 1981 - Always an Enlightening Experience
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XS, L.L.C.
Exceptional Events Since 1981 - Always an Enlightening Experience
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These Pictures were shot with a JVC Digital Camcorder GRDV-1 by Jeff
Singer
The Liberty Memorial... An enduring symbol of peace The Liberty Memorial, as conceived by noted New York architect H. Van Buren Megonigle, is a symbol of peace and a monument to patriotic service in World War I.The memorial’s centerpiece is a 217-foot tower-designed to be seen from a great distance – with an eternal flame of freedom that produces "smoke" in the form of steam. A 1929 article on Liberty Memorial describes the flame as, "burning forever upon an altar high-erected in the skies, a pillar of cloud by day, a pillar of fire by night, to lead men out of the bondage of strife into the promised land of Peace and the blessings of peace." At the tower’s pinnacle is the "Altar of Sacrifice" surrounded by 40- foot-tall statues representing the spirits of honor, courage, patriotism and sacrifice. Each has a distinguishing feature: honor wears a laurel wreath; courage, a helmet; patriotism, a civic crown and sacrifice, a star. Each holds a sword as a symbol of "peaceful but militant guardianship, not a symbol of war," according to McPherson, who was secretary of the Liberty Memorial Association. At the base is the Memorial Court, flanked on the east by Memorial Hall, designed as a meeting place for veterans’ organizations and other groups, and on the west by the Museum The entrance to the court is guarded by large, hooded sphinx-like figures representing memory and the future. Memory faces east toward Flanders Fields in France, the center of World War I fighting, and Future faces west, where Magonigle anticipated the growth of new empires. "If is one of the country’s great memorials, in a class with the Lincoln and Jefferson memorials. It is like the Acropolis /n Athens, will its great wall setting, or like the monumental planning of Paris. " – Architect Edward Durrell Stone "It is the most impressive war memorial I’ve ever seen in any country."– Lord Halifax of Great Britain, l941 More Liberty Memorial info, please click here... The Memorial was lit with 6 High End Systems Cyberlights and 6 High End Systems Studiocolors housed in an Ecodomes . The whole system was controlled by a High End Systems Status Cue Console.(click here to see picture)
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