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This subsite uses the Galleria jQuery plugin, which is pretty nice. It's primarily out-of-the-box behavior, except that I took advantage of their API to display the title and description in the right sidebar.

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My mom in front for sense of scale

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"HERE IN THE PRESENCE OF WASHINGTON AND LINCOLN, ONE THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY FATHER AND THE OTHER THE NINETEENTH CENTURY PRESERVER OF OUR NATION. WE HONOR THOSE TWENTIETH CENTURY AMERICANS WHO TOOK UP THE STRUGGLE DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR AND MADE THE SACRIFICES TO PERPETUATE THE GIFT OUR FOREFATHERS ENTRUSTED TO US: a NATION CONCEIVED IN LIBERTY AND JUSTICE"

"THEY FOUGHT TOGETHER AS BROTHERS-IN-ARMS. THEY DIED TOGETHER AND NOW THEY SLEEP SIDE BY SIDE. TO THEM WE HAVE A SOLEMN OBLIGATION" - ADMIRAL CHESTER W. NIMITZ

"WOMEN WHO STEPPED UP WERE MEASURED AS CITIZENS OF THE NATION, NOT AS WOMEN. THIS WAS A PEOPLE'S WAR AND EVERYONE WAS IN IT." --COLONEL OVETA CULP HOBBY

"THEY HAVE GIVEN THEIR SONS TO THE MILITARY SERVICE. THEY HAVE STOKED THE FURNACES AND HURRIED THE FACTORY WHEELS. THEY HAVE MADE THE PLANES AND WELDED THE TANKS, RIVETED THE SHIPS AND ROLLED THE SHELLS." -- PRESIDENT FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

"WE ARE DETERMINED THAT BEFORE THE SUN SETS ON THIS TERRIBLE STRUGGLE OUR FLAG WILL BE RECOGNIZED THROUGHOUT THE WORLD AS A SYMBOL OF FREEDOM ON ONE HAND AND OVERWHELMING FORCE ON THE OTHER." -- GENERAL GEORGE C. MARSHALL

Fountain in center

"THE HEROISM OF OUT OWN TROOPS ... WAS MATCHED BY THAT OF THE ARMED FORCES OF THE NATIONS THAT FOUGHT BY OUR SIDE ... THEY ABSORBED THE BLOWS AND SHARED TO THE FULL IN THE ULTIMATE DESTRUCTION OF THE ENEMY" -- PRESIDENT HARRY S. TRUMAN

"OUR DEBT TO THE HEROIC MEN AND VALIANT WOMEN IN THE SERVICE OF OUR COUNTRY CAN NEVER BE REPAID. THEY HAVE EARNED OUT UNDYING GRATITUDE. AMERICA WILL NEVER FORGET THEIR SACRIFICES" -- PRESIDENT HARRY S. TRUMAN

"THE WAR'S END. TODAY THE GUNS ARE SILENT. A GREAT TRAGEDY HAS ENDED. A GREAT VICTORY HAS BEEN WON. THE SKIES NO LONGER RAIN DEATH -- THE SEAS BEAR ONLY COMMERCE -- MEN EVERYWHERE WALK UPRIGHT IN THE SUNLIGHT. THE ENTIRE WORLD IS QUIETLY AT PEACE." -- GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR"

"BATTLE OF MIDWAY JUNE 4-7, 1942 - THEY HAD NO RIGHT TO WIN. YET THEY DID, AND IN DOING SO THEY CHANGED THE COURSE OF A WAR... EVEN AGAINST THE GREATEST OF ODDS, THERE IS SOMETHING IN THE HUMAN SPIRIT - A MAGIC BLEND OF SKILL, FAITH, AND VALOR - THAT CAN LIFT MEN FROM CERTAIN DEFEAT TO INCREDIBLE VICTORY" -- WALTER LORD AUTHOR

Soldiers in the field

"FREEDOM IS NOT FREE"

Faces

More faces

Viewed from Lincoln Memorial

Approaching

The man.

"IN THIS TEMPLE AS IN THE HEARTS OF THE PEOPLE FOR WHOM HE SAVED THE UNION, THE MEMORY OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN IS ENSHRINED FOREVER."

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Popularity/diversity

"The Vietnam Veterans Memorial honors the courage, sacrifice, and devotion to duty and country of the men and women of the armed forces of the United States who served in America's longest war [sic], By virtue of its design, the memorial inspires a contemplative experience and puts a human face on the divisive conflict. Veterans, their families, and others find the memorial a place for reflection and healing."

"The Three Soldiers" -- "The statue was unveiled in 1984 and depicts three soldiers, purposefully identifiable as White American, African American, and Hispanic American. The statue and the Wall appear to interact with each other, with the soldiers looking on in solemn tribute at the names of their fallen comrades." - Wikipedia

Wall from a distance

Mementos still left behind

Names ...

"The Vietnam Women's Memorial is a memorial dedicated to the women of the United States who served in the Vietnam War, most of whom were nurses. It serves as a reminder of the importance of women in the conflict. It depicts three uniformed women with a wounded soldier. The woman looking up is named Hope, the woman praying is named Faith, and the woman tending to a wounded soldier is named Charity. It is part of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, and is located on National Mall in Washington DC, a short distance south of The Wall, north of the Reflecting Pool." -- Wikipedia

Across ...

Approaching

Front view

The man.

Looking up

"Almighty God hath created the mind free. All attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burthens . . . are a departure from the plan of the Holy Author of our religion . . . No man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship or ministry or shall otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief, but all men shall be free to profess and by argument to maintain, their opinions in matters of religion. I know but one code of morality for men whether acting singly or collectively."

"We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, that to secure these rights governments are instituted among men. We . . . solemnly publish and declare, that these colonies are and of right ought to be free and independent states. . . And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine providence, we mutually pledge our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor."

"I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions, but laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors."

"God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that his justice cannot sleep forever. Commerce between master and slave is despotism. Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free. Establish a law for educating the common people. This it is the business of the state and on a general plan."

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"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be" -- Thomas Jefferson, 1816

"It is comfortable to see the standard of reason at length erected, after so many ages during which the human mind has been held in vassalage by kings, priests, and nobles; and it is honorable for us to have produced the first legislature who had the courage to declare that the reason of man may be trusted with the formation of his own opinions." -- Thomas Jefferson, 1786

"Knowledge is power ... knowledge is happiness" -- Thomas Jefferson, 1817

"I look to the diffusion of light and education as the resource most to be relied on for ameliorating the condition, promoting the virtue and advancing the happiness of man." -- Thomas Jefferson, 1823

"Here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left to combat it." -- Thomas Jefferson, 1820

"The true foundation of republican government is the equal right of every citizen, in his person and property, and in their management." -- Thomas Jefferson, 1816

"THE LAST HOPE OF HUMAN LIBERTY RESTS WITH US" - Thomas Jefferson, 1811

"EQUAL AND EXACT JUSTICE TO ALL MEN, OF WHATEVER STATE OR PERSUASION, RELIGIOUS OR POLITICAL", Thomas Jefferson, 1801, First Inaugural Address

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