SAN DIEGO (NNS) — "Unconditional Surrender," a 25-foot, 6,000 pound statue by world-renowned artist J. Seward Johnson commemorating a famous World War II photo was unveiled Feb. 10 at Mole Park in San Diego.
SAN DIEGO (NNS) — "Unconditional Surrender," a 25-foot, 6,000 pound statue by world-renowned artist J. Seward Johnson commemorating a famous World War II photo was unveiled Feb. 10 at Mole Park in San Diego.
Unconditional Surrender Statue. San Diego, California. If the photograph of raising the American flag on Iwo Jima is the quintessential World War II icon for triumph in a just war, then "Unconditional Surrender" is the icon for the just rewards of victory.
A statue depicting the infamous couple kissing in Times Square to celebrate the end of World War II will head to San Diego on Valentine's Day.
Unconditional Surrender: The public spooners were in Sarasota, Florida, in 2005, then moved 3,000 miles to San Diego, California, in 2006. Now they've returned east to Sarasota, and this time their Florida fans hope that it's for keeps.
Seward Johnson first built a life-size bronze precursor to the huge statues of Unconditional Surrender using computer technology. A 25-foot (7.6 m)-tall styrofoam version of the work was part of a temporary exhibition in Sarasota, Florida in 2005, at its bay front.
Waging war or support of aggression against the United States of America is treason as defined by our laws and historical standards. After the Civil War, President Andrew Johnson pardoned confederate soldiers (but not confederate leaders).
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