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    POW/MIA Monument, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Colonial Monument Company, founder.
    Title: 
    POW/MIA Monument, (sculpture).
    Other Titles: 
    POW/MIA Memorial, (sculpture).
    Prisoner of War/Missing in Action Monument, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    Dedicated Sept. 15, 1989.
    Medium: 
    Relief panels: bronze; Marker: granite; Base: granite.
    Dimensions: 
    2 relief panels. Each panel: approx. 26 x 22 x 1 1/2 in.; Marker: approx. 5 ft. 2 in. x 10 ft. 1 in. x 1 ft. 5 1/2 in.
    Inscription: 
    (On bottom of front face of marker:) ...WE REMEMBER... (On center plaque, on shield:) POW-MIA/THEY ARE NOT FORGOTTEN (On center plaque below shield, in two columns:) THE LONELIEST PRAYER/AS I SQUAT HERE IN THIS LONELY PLACE/A MAN MAYBE EVEN YOU FORGOT,/I WONDER,/AM I IN LIVING HELL?/AM I ALIVE OR NOT?/I THINK IT'S MORE THAN TEN YEARS NOW/SINCE MY LAST FRIEND LEFT THIS PLACE./I GUESS HE'S BACK HOME-/WHEREVER THAT IS-/AMONG THE HUMAN RACE./FORGIVE ME, LORD,/IF I SEEM UNTRUE/TO THE VALUES MY PARENTS TAUGHT,/TO THOUGHTS OF YOU,/OF FAMILY AND OF COUNTRY-/THOSE THINGS FOR WHICH I FOUGHT./BUT, AS I'VE ENDURED THE ENDLESS DAYS/THAT DRAGGED ON INTO YEARS,/I'VE BATTLED WITH ALL MY VERY BEING/TO HOLD BACK BITTER TEARS./MY CHILDREN,/BY NOW THEY'RE NO LONGER SMALL,/BY NOW THEY'RE NEARLY GROWN./MY POOR WIFE - SHE'S HAD THAT TOO;/SHE'S RAISED THEM ALL ALONE./I'VE WEPT TO HOLD MY DARLINGS,/TO WATCH MY CHILDREN GROW,/TO FEEL YOUR PRESENCE, LORD,/MY FAITH IN YOU TO SHOW./BLESS ME, FATHER, AND TAKE THIS LIFE,/PLEASE LET IT END TODAY./I WONDER HOW THEY LISTED ME -/POW OR MIA? unsigned
    Description: 
    Monument consisting of three bronze relief panels set on the front face of a long vertical granite marker. The panels are framed with dark grey polished granite set against a lighter granite background. The panel on the left depicts an eagle in proper right profile. The eagle is in flight, but its feet are chained. In front of the eagle is a guard's sentry tower and behind the eagle are several rows of barbed wire. The center panel has a bas-relief POW-MIA shield, depicting a man's head in proper right profile. Behind his head in the distance is a sentry tower. The panel on the right is a bas-relief depiction of four jet planes. Vapor trails from the jets follow the planes from the lower right to the upper left corners of the relief. The granite marker stands on a low, rough hewn granite base.
    Subject: 
    State of Being -- Other -- Imprisonment
    Animal -- Bird -- Eagle
    Figure male -- Head
    Architecture -- Civic -- Prison
    Architecture -- Vehicle -- Airplane
    Literature -- Abbott
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- New Hampshire -- Newington
    Relief
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Administered by New Hampshire Air National Guard, 157/DER, 302 Newmarket Street, Newington, New Hampshire 03801
    Located Pease International Tradeport, Intersection of New Hampshire Avenue & Pease Boulevard, Newington, New Hampshire
    Provenance: 
    Formerly located Pease Air Base, Intersection of Route 16 & Gosling Road, Newington, New Hampshire
    Remarks: 
    The monument was designed by the POW/MIA Committee of Pease Air Force Base in 1988 and was manufactured by Colonial Monument Company. The monument was purchased with funds donated by the Rochester Veterans of Foreign Wars and Rochester American Legion. The poem inscribed on the center plaque was written by Hardy Abbott. The monument is sited at a location which was formerly an entrance to Pease Air Force Base. The base has since closed. IAS files contain copy of related article from Portsmouth Press, Sept. 19, 1989; Portsmouth Herald, Sept. 18, 1989 and Granite State Refueler, Sept. and Oct., 1988, July and Nov., 1989.
    References: 
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, New Hampshire survey, 1993.
    Illustration: 
    Image on file.
    Portsmouth Press (Portsmouth, NH), Sept. 19, 1989.
    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 NH000425
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