Ngaba uyayazi ukuba i-Connecticut yeHartford County ihlala kwisikhumbuzo seNational Memorial Jima Memorial? Itholakala eNew Britain - eNewington, Connecticut, kwidolophu. Siyidlulisela phambili kwiNdlela 9 lonke ixesha kwaye sibona ikhefu e-48 eneenkwenkwezi yokukhwela iiflethi kunye nomlilo ongunaphakade ovutha ngehora. Kodwa kuthatha iminyaka ngaphambi kokuba sihambe kwi-Route 9 ekuphumeni kwe-29 (i-Ella Grasso Boulevard) ukuze sibone ukuhlawula oku kuphawulekayo kubantu baseMelika abafa kwisiqithi sase-Iwo Jima ngexesha lokuvulwa kwephulo lokulwa neJapan kwihlabathi. IMfazwe II.
I-National Iwo Jima Memorial kwi-CT
Isikhumbuzo sithatha isibhakabhaka esivela kwiifoto ezidumileyo, i-Joe Rosenthal yokuphakanyiswa kweflegi yaseMerika kwiNtaba yeSuribachi, iJima, ngoFebruwari 23, 1945. Ekhishwe nguJoseph Petrovics, iSikhumbuzo samaJima saseJima sazinikezelwa kwiminyaka eyi-50 Loo mboniso wembali, uFebruwari 23, 1995. Ngomhla we-Veteran ngo-1996, le ndawo yaseKonnestown isetyenziswe ngokusemthethweni njengeNational Memorial Jima Memorial Monument.
Isikhumbuzo sakhulelwa kwaye senzelwe nguDkt George Gentile, umsunguli we-Iwo Jima Survivors Association, Inc. Amalungu omNyango waseNewington aphakamisa iimali ezenze ukwakhiwa kwesi sikhumbuzo kubantu babo abawa phantsi.
Ngoxa ama-Marines ayisithupha aphakamisa ifulegi phezu kweYima - eHarlon Block, uJohn H. Bradley, uRene Gagnon, uIra Hayes, uFranlin Sousley noMike Strank - bahlala bephazamiseka kwifestile yobhedu ephakamisa isikhumbuzo, isikhumbuzo sinikezelwa kubo bonke abama-6 821 baseMelika abafa e-Iwo Jima.
Ilangatye elingunaphakade litshisa iintsuku ezingama-365 ngonyaka, iiyure ezingama-24 ngosuku, njengesikhumbuzo semibingelelo eyenziwa ngabo bonke abakhuselayo inkululeko ngexesha leMfazwe Yehlabathi yesibili.