The island also includes a 22-acre national monument centered on two historic fortresses.
All those gloomy legends amassed in the monuments behind center field and all those booming pregame history film clips seem to induce a bristling sense of entitlement.
You know what's coming, as our heroes open a door in a long corridor and emerge by the monuments in center field.
Stipulated: The protection of our capital, its monuments and centers of authority, is a vital national interest.
Selections include "Problem Solving," top left, shot in Tarrytown, by Ellen Wales of Millwood and "20th-Century Monument," top center, a photo taken in White Plains by Kerry Di Donato.
Mel Gibson (as William Wallace) The stone statue of Sir William Wallace that was erected in the Wallace Monument visitor center in 1997 bears a striking resemblance to Mel Gibson, who played the Scottish hero in "Braveheart".
Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains National Monument Visitor Center, 51-500 California Highway 74, Palm Desert; (760) 862-9984, http://www.lat.ms/1amijss.
The memorial was on the playing field and the Giants' Harry Danning once hit a ball that bounced around behind the monument, eluding center-fielder Vince DiMaggio and allowing the slow-footed Danning to score an inside-the-park home run.
The monument is centered at.
So the idea is to put these monuments front and center at the heart of our civic life--State Capitols--and let the Bill of Rights speak for itself.
(I also like Indianapolis, which has a very cool monument at its center, the Soldiers and Sailors Monument, which is the only central civic plaza-fountain-memorial I know that looks exactly like a Thurber drawing of a civil-war-plaza fountain memorial).
