MIA / POW Eternal Flame Memorial, (sculpture).

MIA / POW Eternal Flame Memorial, (sculpture).

Shure, Robert, 1948- , sculptor.

Rosen, Steven, fabricator.

Available Light, fabricator.

Skylight Studio, fabricator.

New England Stone Industries, fabricator.

MIA / POW Eternal Flame Memorial, (sculpture).

Dedicated Nov. 8, 1998.

Digital Reference:

Pillar: jet mist granite; Flame: fiber optic cables.

Approx. H. 8 ft. 5 in. x Diam. 2 ft. 5 in.

(On front of pillar:) MIA / POW / MEMORIAL (On base of pillar, front:) TO BURN ALWAYS WITH THIS HARD, GEMLIKE FLAME TO GUIDE THEM HOME. BUT THEY MUST REST IN HONOR AMONG OTHER HEROES OF OUR NATION. (On east side:) YOU GIVE BUT LITTLE WHEN YOU GIVE OF YOUR POSSESSIONS. IT IS WHEN YOU GIVE OF YOURSELF THAT YOU TRULY GIVE. AND THERE ARE THOSE WHO HAVE LITTLE AND GIVE IT ALL. (On west side:) OH! CALL MY COMRADES BACK TO ME. I CAN NOT STAND ALONE. THE YEARS COME WITH HOPE AND PRAYER. WHERE HAVE MY COMRADES GON? "BRING THEM HOME." (On south side:) UNLESS JUSTICE BE DONE FOR OUR MIA'S AND POW'S IT WILL NOT BE DONE FOR US.

An eternal flame constructed with a round black granite pillar topped by a computer generated flame made of sixty-four fiber optic cables that give the appearance of a flickering flame.

History -- United States -- World War II

History -- United States -- Korean War

History -- United States -- Vietnam War

Object -- Other -- Torch

Outdoor Sculpture -- Massachusetts -- Bourne

Administered by United States Department of Veterans Affairs, National Cemetery Administration, 810 Vermont Avenue, N.W., Washington, District of Columbia 20420

Located Massachusetts National Cemetery, Connery Avenue, Bourne, Massachusetts 02532

This monument was erected by the MIA/POW Memorial Committee of the Joint Veterans Council and is dedicated to soldiers missing in action or held prisoner during times of war. The cost of the monument was $35,000. IAS files contain an information sheet and correspondence from the lighting designer, Steven Rosen of Available Light, Boston, Massachusetts, which describes the computer-driven lighting process. IAS files also contain a copy of an article from the Cape Cod Times, Sept. 13, 1999.

National Cemetery Administration Memorials Inventory Project, 2002-2005.

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Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012

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