U.S. Merchant Marine Memorial - Cape Coral, FL - World War II Memorials / Monuments on Waymarking.com

This monument is located in Cape Coral's Veterans Memorial Area, just off Veterans Memorial Parkway. This is actually a pair of monuments, the first being a black marble monument.

TEXT:
"U.S. MERCHANT MARINE
A MEMORIAL
TO ALL WHO SERVED
in the
US MERCHANT MARINE
and the NAVY ARMED GUARD

731 Ships Sunk 1941 - 1945

6839 lives of the MERCHANT MARINE

1810 lives of the NAVAL ARMED GUARD

"IN PEACE AND WAR""

TEXT REAR:
"THE UNITED STATES WAS A MEMBER OF A FIGHTING TEAM OF THE UNITED NATIONS THAT WON THE GREATEST WAR IN HISTORY. THERE WERE THREE MAJOR PLAYERS WHO REPRESENTED THE UNITED STATES ON THAT TEAM: OUR FIGHTING FORCES OVERSEAS, THE PRODUCTION ARMY HERE AT HOME, AND THE LINK BETWEEN THEM-THE UNITED STATES MERCHANT MARINE."
WRITTEN BY ADMIRAL E.S. LAND, WAR SHIPPING ADMINISTRATOR, TO PRESIDENT EISENHOWER, JANUARY 15, 1946

"THE MERCHANT MARINE IS A STRONG BULWARK OF NATIONAL DEFENSE IN PEACE AND WAR, AND A BUTTRESS TO A SOUND NATIONAL ECONOMY. A LARGE MERCHANT MARINE IS NOT ONLY AN IMPORTANT NATIONAL RESOURCE; IT IS IN BEING, AN INTEGRAL PART OF THE COUNTRY'S ARMED MIGHT DURING TIME OF CRISIS."
WRITTEN BY FLEET ADMIRAL ERNEST J. KING NOVEMBER 2, 1945

THIS PRECEPT WAS PROVEN NOT ONLY IN WWII, BUT AGAIN IN THE KOREAN AND VIETNAM CONFLICTS, OPERATION DESERT STORM, OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM AND OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM. THE U.S. MERCHANT MARINE IS THE "FOURTH ARM OF DEFENSE."

"KEEP 'EM SAILING""

Beside this monument is a propeller with the merchant marine crest on it.

Property Permission: Public Commemoration: Merchant Marine Date of Dedication: Not listed Access instructions: Not listed Access times: Not listed Website for Waymark: Not listed Location of waymark: Not listed

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