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History -- United States
Figure male -- Full length
Occupation -- Military
State of Being -- Other
Relief
Outdoor Sculpture -- Florida -- Bay Pines
Sculpture
POW-MIA Monument, (sculpture).
Artist:
Unknown, sculptor.
Title:
POW-MIA Monument, (sculpture).
Dates:
Installed May 30, 1988.
Digital Reference:
Medium:
Granite.
Dimensions:
Approx. 7 ft. 10 in. x 4 ft. 5 in. x 1 ft. 6 in.
Inscription:
(On stele, right side:) DEDICATED TO THE PRISONERS OF WAR AND THOSE MISSING IN ACTION WHOSE SUPREME SACRIFICE HELPED KEEP OUR NATION FREE.
Description:
A granite stele carved in relief with a standing figure of a male soldier symbolizing a captured prisoner of war, surrounded by a lightly etched image of barbed wire. He is not dressed in uniform, but wears prison attire, with sandals on his feet, his arms at his sides, his left hand clenched in a fist, his right hand open with the palm facing down, and his head turned to the right. The soldier stands on the left side of the stele, which is inscribed on the right with an inscription honoring all prisoners of war and those missing in action.
Subject:
History -- United States -- Vietnam War
Figure male -- Full length
Occupation -- Military -- Soldier
State of Being -- Other -- Imprisonment
Object Type:
Relief
Outdoor Sculpture -- Florida -- Bay Pines
Sculpture
Owner:
Administered by United States Department of Veterans Affairs, National Cemetery Administration, 810 Vermont Avenue, N.W., Washington, District of Columbia 20420
Located Pay Pines National Cemetery, 6502 SW 102nd Avenue, Bay Pines Florida 33513
Remarks:
The memorial was donated by American EX-POW Chapters Barbed Wire Seminole Gulf Coast Florida State #1 and Friends on May 30, 1988.
References:
National Cemetery Administration Memorials Inventory Project, 2002-2005.
Note:
The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide.
Repository:
Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012
Control Number:
IAS 68000004
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Inventory of American Sculpture
68000004
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