1963 East Coast Memorial Medal, WW II New York John F. Kennedy, Albino Manca

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1963 East Coast Memorial Medal, WW II New York John F. Kennedy, Albino Manca:
$125.00

EastCoast Memorial Medal, 1963. 64mm (2½”). Bronze.Albino Manca, Sc. (1897-1976) Struck by the Medallic Art Co., NY. Edge incused:MEDALLIC ART CO.NY and BRONZE. Uncirculated. Obverse: depicts the American bald eagle; in its talons, theelegant king of birds holds a laurel wreath ready to place it in the sea; withfour-line memorial dedication inscription above. Granite pylons to the left andright; the Statue of Liberty and rising sun with light rays beyond. Inscribedbelow: INTO THY HANDS O LORD. Signed and dated along edge at 4 o’clock: A.MANCA1963 ©. Reverse: depicts the eaglein flight with talons clutching a branch of oak; mountains, under the thirteenstar-studded sky, appear in the background above a four line inscriptionexcerpt from President Kennedy’s inaugural speech. Inscription below around:EAST COAST MEMORIAL NEW YORK DEDICATED MAY 23, 1963. Signed and dated alongedge at 6 o’clock: ALBINO MANCA 1963 ©.

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EastCoast War Memorial: FacingtheStatue of Libertyacross New York harbor, theEast Coast WarMemorialis located at the southern end of Battery Park, at the tip ofManhattan. This memorial honors the 4,596 missing American servicemen who losttheir lives in the Atlantic Ocean while engaged in combat during World War II.Designed by the architectural firm of Gehron and Seltzer, the monument consistsof a large, paved plaza punctuated by eight massive 19-foot tall gray granitepylons (four each on the southern and northern sides) onto which are inscribedthe names, rank, organization and state of each of the deceased.

Onthe Eastern side of the plaza a monumental bronze eagle (23-feet high),sculpted by Albino Manca (1897–1976) and set on a pedestal of polished blackgranite, grips a laurel wreath over a wave – signifying the act of mourning atthe watery grave. The monument was commissioned by the American BattleMonuments Commission (ABMC), a small independent agency of the executive branchof the United States federal government, and was dedicated by President John F.Kennedy on May 23, 1963.

President John F.Kennedy\'s remarks in New York City at the Dedication of the East Coast Memorialto the Missing at Sea. The President spoke at noon at the dedication ceremony atBattery Park in New York City:

\'\'General Devers, Reverend Clergy, Senator Mansfield, Secretary Gilpatric,Mayor Wagner. Admiral Kinkaid, Sir John, Commodore, ladies and gentlemen:Admiral Rickover wrote me a few days ago describing the ceremony of thecommissioning of a new Polaris submarine, the Andrew Jackson. He said to eachcaptain of a new submarine he gives a plaque which contains an old Bretonprayer which was said by fishermen from there for hundreds of years, and theprayer says: \"O God, the sea is so great and my boat is sosmall.\"The sea has been a friend or an enemy of us all but it has never, since ourearliest beginnings, carried special hazards for the people of this country. Westarted as a beachhead on this continent; our forebears came by that sea tothis land. The sea has been our friend and on occasions our enemy, but to lifein the sea with all of its changes and hazards was added the struggle with man,and it is that struggle of nature and man which cost us the lives of 4500Americans whom we commemorate today.We commemorate them particularly appropriately here in the shadow of the Statueof Liberty. I am sure that their families who will come here and read theirnames may wonder on occasion whether this rather extraordinary act on theirbehalf was worthwhile. It is, after all, against the law of nature for parentsto bury their children. Children should bury their fathers, and when it isnecessary for a father or a mother to bury a son who may range from 18 to 28with all of his life before him, it represents a special wrench. And I am surethey wonder, with all of the bright promises particularly of World War I andthen World War II, what it all meant that we should be in such hazard today. Isuppose it means that every generation of Americans must be expected in theirtime to do their part to maintain freedom for their country and freedom forthose associated with it; that there is no final victory but rather all Americansmust be always prepared to play their proper part in a difficult and dangerousworld.

These4500 Americans did--dying in the western Atlantic--and nearly 20 years later itis appropriate for us to remember them and also remember those who in 1963 aredoing the same thing not in the western Atlantic but much farther from ourshores, who also on sea and land are bearing the burden of our defense. Thankyou.\'\'

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I have a large collection of bronze bas-reliefs, plaques,medallions, and medals that I will be listing this month by the followingsculptors: Chester Beach, Victor D. Brenner, Anthony de Francisci, JohnFlanagan, James Earle Fraser, Laura Gardin Fraser, Daniel Chester French, HenryHering, Anna Vaughan Hyatt-Huntington, Charles Keck, Julio Kilenyi, FrederickMacMonnies, Hermon A. MacNeil, Paul Manship, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Louis St.Gaudens, and many others, including prominent French sculptors/engravers!

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