A rather more sobering image today. This panel from Space Shuttle orbiter Columbia was recovered from the debris field in Texas and Louisiana after the disaster...
The Chi Omega Fountain at the end of Jayhawk Boulevard in the University of Kansas was dedicated in April 1955 as an alumni memorial. The fountain was originally...
Let’s end this short series of pictures from the Oklahoma City National Memorial with an image of the arch at the opposite end of the reflecting...
Some of the 168 sculptures of chairs, one for each victim of the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, at the Oklahoma City National Memorial....
One of the two black-clad arches at the Oklahoma City National Memorial. The 9:03 inscription refers to the time 1 minute after the detonation of the bomb...
168 sculptures of empty chairs commemorate the victims of the April 19th 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building at the Oklahoma City National...
We took a drive up to Kansas this week to spend Thanksgiving with Cameron and, rather than drive the whole way in one day, broke the journey in Oklahoma...
The grass hill between turns 18 and 19 at Circuit of the Americas paid tribute to Nicky Hayden, American rider who lost his life last year following a bicycle...
The Alamo Cenotaph can be found directly in front of the famous missing in the heart of San Antonio, Texas. I gather that plans to redevelop the Alamo...
The central section of the base of the Texas African American History Memorial in the State Capitol grounds contains this scene commemorating the 182,500...
The new Texas African American History Memorial sits in the south western part of the State Capitol grounds and I bumped into it on Saturday while at the Texas...
This seems an appropriate image for today given that it’s Memorial Day here in the US. I took this during my last visit back to Scotland in November...
Here’s another picture from my walk through Lanark Cemetery. I was interested to see a large obelisk in the centre of the cemetery and discovered...
This large, gilded crucifix can be found in Les Invalides above the tomb of Napoléon Bonaparte in the centre of Paris. The actual sarcophagus, which you can’t...
