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The Lone Sailor
The Lone Sailor statue represents all people who ever served, are serving now or who are yet to serve in the Navy. The founders of the Navy Memorial envisioned this Lone Sailor as 25 years old at most, a senior second class petty officer who is fast becoming a seagoing veteran. He has done it all -- fired his weapon in a dozen wars, weighed anchor from a thousand ports, tracked supplies, doused fires, repelled boarders, typed in quadruplicate and mess-cooked too. He has made liberty calls in great cities and tiny villages, where he played tourist, ambassador, missionary to the poor, adventurer, souvenir shopper and friend to new lands. His shipmates remember him with pride and tell their grandchildren stories, some of which, like him, are seven feet tall.
"In this figure of the Lone Sailor, rests the spirits of those who have known the challenge of the seas."
-- Admiral Arleigh Burke |