Weekly Photo Challenge: Monument (II)

Veterans Memorial, O’Fallon

“The site is unique, with a platoon of cast bronze boots positioned as though marching. A solitary pair of boots is stationed at the foot of the POW/MIA flag, and an eternal flame burns continuously.”

Weekly Photo Challenge: Monument

Abraham Lincoln, United States’ sixteenth President Tomb in Springfield, Illinois. Lincoln warned the South in his Inaugural Address: “In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you…. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect and defend it.”