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The tragic loss of life during WWI prompted the construction of the Coast Guard World War Memorial. Dedicated on May 23, 1928, architect
George Howe and sculptor Gaston Lachaise captured the spirit of the Coast Guard’s legendary steadfastness in the monument’s rock foundation and pyramid design. The names of the vessels Seneca and Tampa and their crewmen, as well as all Coast Guard personnel who lost their lives during World War I, are inscribed on the sides of the monument. The U.S. Coast Guard Memorial sits on a triangular plot of land between Jessup and Dewey Drives, near the southern edge of the cemetery.
League of Coast Guard women honor those U.S. Coast Guard World War I heroes that gave their lives. Courtesy of National Archives, (Harris & Ewing).
“It is to the Coast Guard, of the Coast Guard, by the Coast Guard, a memorial by our own to our own.” ~ Frank L. Toon
Original dedication May 23, 1928
Proposal to establish the Coast Guard War Memorial. (U.S. Coast Guard) 15