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New Yorker:Golden Statue of William Tecumseh Sherman at Fifth Av

(2006-09-06 18:57:23) 下一个

At   the corner of 59th Street and Fifth Avenue in front of Central Park entrance stands the Golden statue of William Tecumseh Sherman who was a West Point graduate (1840) and  a decorated  general of Civil War. It doesn't ring a bell when you ask most New Yorkers who is General Sherman, but majority of them have heard the phrase that he coined "War is hell".

Artistically I like this sculpture done by the famous artist Augustus Saint-Gaudens very much, but I feel irony each time I look at it.  145 years later after American Civil War another deadly war is still being waged to kill human lives and destroy families in this world. When collectively could we be able to learn from our past?   Well, under Sept. blue sky at least the woman walking in front of General Sherman on the horse back extends the palm branch for peace  while an alive pigeon was sitting on her right hand.

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