Mt Battie St Park

This is a tower that was erected for the soldiers coming back from WW1 on MT Battie in Camden Me. The state has made a state park out of the area. It just stands their looking out to sea.

Actually it was erected in 1920 I believe in reccognition of the services of the men and women of WW1.

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17-50 tamron

Hi Ron,

This is appropriately in B&W and is both simple and sombre. The open arches reminds me of a more elaborate memorial in Munich in the center of a park.

I wonder if people still visit? It does seem well maintained. Are there seats or perhaps a fountain inside?

Asher

Hi Asher,

It has a spiral starcase inside leading to a lookout on top.

It has a steady stream of visitors in the summer. Its beautiful looking from here out to sea with a lot of islands dotting the water.

I thought of posting a gaussian blur version at first.

This blurred version somehow reminds me of the work of Stan Jirman ! The massive border fortification that the Czeck army built but the British government's appeasement of the Adolf Hitler, simply induced the govenment to cede to the invading Wehrmacht! I guess the stone and the mist of the Czech thown-away forts mirror, in a way, the wasted lives of WWI whose lessons we couldn't learn!





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Asher

History has so much to tell, but somehow history is all to soon forgotten.

Interesting that as far as we know, not anyone has died in either of these monuments!

Asher