Photos courtesy of Anthem Community Council
Each Veterans Day at 11:11 a.m., daylight streams via the ellipses on five tall marble pillars, casting a vivid solar highlight on a glass-mosaic rendering of the Great Seal of the United States.
Each the seal and the pillars, the latter which signify the five provider branches of the United States military, are components of the Anthem Veterans Memorial in Anthem, Arizona.
This award-profitable engineering marvel rests atop the Circle of Honor. It consists of 3,000 brick pavers, some 750 of which are inscribed with honored veterans’ names, and is surrounded by five park benches representing family members waiting for their loved ones to return. Anthem resident Renee Palmer-Jones designed the monument so that the white pillars and crimson pavers would blend with the blue sky, and fellow resident and engineer Jim Martin former exact mathematical calculations to manual the sun’s rays, allowing them to hit their mark at the same time each year. Dedicated on November 11, 2011, the monument has turn into a unfamiliar place the place Americans can gather to solemnly honor individuals that gave all.
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