Photo: Toby Beanblossom.
PORT HURON, MICHIGAN
Near N 43° 1.457 / W 82° 26.147
1991 bronze copy of copyright 1943 cast zinc original.
Smithsonian Art Inventory Control Number: 47260054
(misidentified as Viquesney's "Spirit of the American Doughboy").
1991 bronze copy of copyright 1943 cast zinc original.
Smithsonian Art Inventory Control Number: 47260054
(misidentified as Viquesney's "Spirit of the American Doughboy").
Dedicated 1949. In Allied Veterans Memorial Cemetery within Lakeside Cemetery, south of intersection of Gratiot Avenue and Krafft Road.
A plain type inscription on the pedestal reads:
WE DEDICATE THIS
MEMORIAL, NOT TO
REMEMBER WAR, BUT
TO REMIND US FOREVER
OF THE PRIVILEGES OF
PEACE AND FREEDOM
** **
WE HOLD IN
LOVING REGARD
FOREVER, THE
GLORIOUS MEMORY
OF THE LIVING
AND THE DEAD,
WHO, BY THEIR
ENDURING LOYALTY
TO THE CAUSE
OF FREEDOM
HAVE KEPT US
A FREE PEOPLE
Below the above inscription, a new plaque was added at the 1991 rededication:
THE "FIGHTING YANK" IS REDEDICATED
THIS 26 DAY OF MAY 1991 BY
GENEROUS CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE
BELCHER-LANE DETACHMENT OF THE
MARINE CORPS LEAGUE, ITS
LADIES AUXILLIARY AND THE
CITIZENS OF THE GREATER PORT HURON AREA.
SEMPER FIDELIS
WE DEDICATE THIS
MEMORIAL, NOT TO
REMEMBER WAR, BUT
TO REMIND US FOREVER
OF THE PRIVILEGES OF
PEACE AND FREEDOM
** **
WE HOLD IN
LOVING REGARD
FOREVER, THE
GLORIOUS MEMORY
OF THE LIVING
AND THE DEAD,
WHO, BY THEIR
ENDURING LOYALTY
TO THE CAUSE
OF FREEDOM
HAVE KEPT US
A FREE PEOPLE
Below the above inscription, a new plaque was added at the 1991 rededication:
THE "FIGHTING YANK" IS REDEDICATED
THIS 26 DAY OF MAY 1991 BY
GENEROUS CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE
BELCHER-LANE DETACHMENT OF THE
MARINE CORPS LEAGUE, ITS
LADIES AUXILLIARY AND THE
CITIZENS OF THE GREATER PORT HURON AREA.
SEMPER FIDELIS
The statue on public display is a 1991 cast bronze replica. The original cast zinc statue is now displayed in the Port Huron Museum, 1115 6th Street.
