United States Memorials

There are many well-known memorials and monuments in the United States that commemorate past wars, political leaders, and notable events in American history. A large number of these monuments are located in the capital Washington, DC 10 of the 20 are in the District of Columbia or Virginia . The name United States Memorials is not official. In contrast to the National Memorials, there is no officially decisive body and no official catalog of criteria as to which memorials are United States Memorials and which are not.

List of monuments

• The Arlington National Cemetery (Arlington, Virginia), memorial cemetery for the war dead of the United States
• The Washington Monument (Washington, DC, inaugurated in 1885) in honor of former President George Washington
• The National Memorial Arch in Valley Forge National Historical Park (1910), in honor of "the officers and soldiers of the Continental Army "
• The Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington, Virginia National Cemetery, opened in 1921, commemorates the unidentified dead soldiers of all wars
• The Lincoln Memorial (Washington, DC, opened 1922), in honor of former President Abraham Lincoln
• The Mount Rushmore National Memorial (Keystone, South Dakota, dedicated 1925), in honor of the first 150 years of American history, represented by Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson , Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln
• The Jefferson National Expansion Memorial (St. Louis, Missouri, opened 1935), commemorating the Louisiana Purchase and the colonization of the American West; Gateway Arch location (Completed in 1965)
• The Jefferson Memorial (Washington, DC, opened 1943), in honor of former President Thomas Jefferson
• The USMC War Memorial (Arlington, Virginia, opened in 1954), commemorating all of the US Marine Corps who died defending the United States since 1775
• The USS Arizona Memorial (Honolulu, Hawai'i, opened in 1962), in memory of the American victims of the attack on Pearl Harbor
• The Vietnam Veterans Memorial (Washington, DC, opened 1982), to commemorate American victims of the Vietnam War
• The Vietnam Women's Memorial (Washington, DC, opened 1993), in memory of the women, mostly nurses, who served in the Vietnam War
• The Patriots Point War Dog Memorial is located aboard the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown at the Patriots Point Naval & Maritime Museum in Charleston, South Carolina . It commemorates the merits of the trained military dogs during the wars
• The Korean War Veterans Memorial (Washington, DC, opened 1995), in memory of the women and men who served in the Korean War
• The Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial (Washington, DC, opened 2001), in honor of former President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
• The Oklahoma City National Memorial (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, opened 2001), in memory of the dead and injured in the Oklahoma City bombing
• The Liberty Memorial in Kansas City, Missouri , opened in 1926 (remodeled in 2000), US National Memorial and Museum for the Fallen of World War I.
• The National D-Day Memorial in Bedford, Virginia (opened 2001), in memory of those who fell on the Normandy landings
• The National World War II Memorial (Washington, DC opened in 2004), in honor of those in the Second World War have served

See also

• National Memorial
• National Historic Landmark
• National Register of Historic Places
• War memorial
• Presidential Memorials in the United States

Individual evidence

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