Great Frieze of the Liberty Memorial

The Great Frieze on the north wall of the Liberty Memorial was sculpted by Edmond Amateis. Depicting progress from war to peace via 12 motifs between flags, starting with a vignette of destruction -- a howitzer and a badly wounded soldier -- and ending with hope for the future, the Frieze stretches 400 feet across and stands 13 feet high. The inscription above the Frieze reads, "These have dared bear torches of sacrifice and service; their bodies return to dust, but their work liveth forevermore. Let us strive on to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations."

The inscription on the east fountain reads, "Who more than self their country loved." The inscription on the west fountain reads, "The glory dies not and the grief is past."

In Flanders Fields

By: Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD (1872-1918)

Canadian Army
IN FLANDERS FIELDS the poppies blow

Between the crosses row on row,

That mark our place; and in the sky

The larks, still bravely singing, fly

Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago

We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,

Loved and were loved, and now we lie

In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:

To you from failing hands we throw

The torch; be yours to hold it high.

If ye break faith with us who die

We shall not sleep, though poppies grow

In Flanders fields.