Please visit the link to learn more or feel free to contact me with questions.Pulitzer winner Meacham ( His Truth Is Marching On) more than justifies yet another Lincoln biography in this nuanced and captivating look at the president’s “struggle to do right as he defined it within the political universe he and his country inhabited.” Drawing sharp parallels to Lincoln’s battles against “an implacable minority gave no quarter in a clash over power, race, identity, money, and faith” and today’s “moment of polarization, passionate disagreement, and differing understandings of reality,” Meacham highlights Lincoln’s struggles to live up to a “transcendental moral order” that called on humans “to do justice, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with their God.” For Meacham, Lincoln is above all “an example of how even the most imperfect of people, leading the most imperfect of peoples,” can bend the arc of the universe toward justice. In addition to permanent recognition on this special monument, your donation will go toward the USS Cleveland Legacy Foundation’s efforts to support the Sailors who will serve on the future USS Cleveland, which will be christened this Saturday!Ī dedication ceremony for the monument is scheduled for the morning of Friday, September 8, 2023, at the location on Whiskey Island in the Cleveland Metroparks. Orders must be placed by May 31, 2023, to allow us to get everything finalized this summer.*** ***Please don’t miss this chance to commemorate your service or that of a loved one on a permanent Naval monument right here in our hometown. The public has the opportunity to purchase one of three different sized plaques on the Honor and Memorial Wall at the Cleveland Lone Sailor Monument. Now, we’re in the process of finalizing the statue’s permanent outdoor site, where it will be accompanied by a recognition feature for those who have served or are serving in America’s Sea Services.

We dedicated the statue at its temporary location in Great Lakes Science Center in 2021. With a fast-approaching deadline and in anticipation of the “I wish I’d known about that” notes that will come later this year, I’m putting this on your radars today.Īs an appetizer to the main course (commissioning of the future USS Cleveland (LCS 31), anticipated for summer 2024 in Cleveland), the USS Cleveland Legacy Foundation has purchased and is the steward of the Cleveland Lone Sailor statue – one of only 18 in the world. NOW HEAR THIS! Fellow Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, and Merchant Marine veterans from Greater Cleveland – please read and heed.

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