美二战纪念碑World War II Memorial
坐落在华盛顿的林肯纪念堂和华盛顿纪念碑之间的美国二战纪念碑，是为了纪念1600万在二战期间服役的美国军人而修建的……
At the Green County quarry in northeastern Georgia, the sound of moving stone rumbles through the air. Giant slabs of granite are cut, rock that will later become part of the National World War II Memorial in Washington DC. Explosives and sledge hammers carve out about 15 blocks a day from the reluctant ground.
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On this day, Barry Owensy, of the American Battle Monuments Commission watches the process.
It's beautiful consistance, though. This is our primary paving stone and what's important to us is the consistent, er, quality of the stone itself, you can see there are very few occlusions or streaks in the stone. And what we are trying to do is to get the best quality for this memorial.
To honor the World War II generation, only the best will do. A standard block is about 200 cubic feet and weighs about 20 tons. One piece is a truckload all by itself. Eddie Corder works for the North Carolina Granite Corporation which runs this operation. It's quarried granite for more than 100 years, supplying architectural building blocks all over Washington DC, including the steps of the White House and the Capitol. But somehow he says this is different.
We've been on some prestigious projects before, but this one is a little closer to home for everybody since it is, er, the World War II Memorial, everybody has some connections to there, through their past generations, past family, uncles and grandparents, just like everybody else we are in the rest of them, Seeing something like this finally take shape.
The historical significance is not lost on the men who are actually pulling the rock. All the blood spilled during World War II gives this work an emotional streak, like a vein running through granite.
Yeah, I guess everybody has some patriotic blood in somewhere, I guess it kind of gets that blood stir a little bit, it's something we can look back on, tell people ten years from now we did this job and it's going to be around for a long time. |
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