The East Tennessee Veterans Memorial (eBook)

A Pictorial History of the Names on the Wall, Their Service, and Their Sacrifice

John Romeiser, Jack H. McCall (Autoren)

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2024 | 1
416 Seiten
University of Tennessee Press (Verlag)
978-1-62190-296-6 (ISBN)

Infos

At the northern edge of the World's Fair Park in Knoxville, Tennessee, a striking set of thirty-two granite pylons stands as a monument to the tradition of military service in East Tennessee.TheEast Tennessee Veterans Memorial explores the creation and significance of this commemorative monument, providing a window into the lives and courageous actions of the more than 6,200 men and women whose names are inscribed on the sobering markers. In this book, author John Romeiser, with the assistance of Jack McCall, showcases the stories of over 300 service members and their families, documented with public records, obituaries, and family recollections. In these pages, readers will find the accounts of each of East Tennessee's 14 Medal of Honor recipients, along with tales of a variety of other veterans from World War I to the present, people whose lives and deaths together form a microcosm of the armed forces. Richly illustrated with historical photographs, this ambitious undertaking delivers not only a compelling history of individual lives but also a broader sense of military history in the region and a contribution to the scholarship on the value of monuments as a means to honor the past.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.1.2024
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 180 x 180 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseführer
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Architektur
• Schlagworte: 20th- and 21st-century military history • 6,200 honored veterans’ names • commemorative military history • East Tennessee armed forces heritage • East Tennessee Medal of Honor recipients • East Tennessee Medal of Honor tales • East Tennessee military photographs • East Tennessee Veterans Memorial • historical and personal veteran narratives • historical value of monuments • honoring East Tennessee veterans • honoring sacrifice through memorials • Jack McCall contributions • Knoxville military service monument • Knoxville veteran storytelling • Knoxville World’s Fair Park monuments • memorializing East Tennessee’s service members • military courage and sacrifice • military service in East Tennessee history • monuments and collective memory • preserving regional military heritage • public records and family recollections • regional military history • significance of military monuments • The East Tennessee Veterans Memorial by John Romeiser • veterans’ contributions to U.S. military history • veterans' personal accounts • war heroes and family legacies • war memorial scholarship • World War I to present veteran stories
• ISBN-10: 1-62190-296-X / 162190296X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-62190-296-6 / 9781621902966