Undestroyable monuments

[Ph33nix]

In the United States there are a few monuments such as the Washington monument and Statue of Liberty that the united states government would destroy only if it was the last hope to save America I was wondering what other monuments/memorials in the united state and the rest of the world that the governments controlling them would never destroy.

edit i guess i was rather ambiguous with my question.
what i meant was if an enemy force was to attack and take the area surrounding the monument what monuments would the government order to be saved at all costs.

 

[Kaboose the Moose]

Why would the US government destroy monuments in their own country and how does that act have the potential to serve as "last hope?"

As a symbolic gesture I get how it can restore moral/demoralise (depending on what the case may be) but how is it like a last defence?

 

[wooty]

cenotaph in London, monument to all the fallen soldiers. At least I hope they never destroy it

 

[BENZOOKA]

Why would the US government destroy monuments in their own country and how does that act have the potential to serve as "last hope?"

As a symbolic gesture I get how it can restore moral/demoralise (depending on what the case may be) but how is it like a last defence?

Exactly.

OT: I think any government wouldn't like to destroy any monuments.

 

[ribonuge]

Why would the US government destroy monuments in their own country and how does that act have the potential to serve as "last hope?"

As a symbolic gesture I get how it can restore moral/demoralise (depending on what the case may be) but how is it like a last defence?

A bomb destroyed Nelson's Pillar in Dublin, Ireland 1966. They made this thing years later in it's place. Although that wasn't government... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spire_of_Dublin

 

[Kaboose the Moose]

Why would the US government destroy monuments in their own country and how does that act have the potential to serve as "last hope?"

As a symbolic gesture I get how it can restore moral/demoralise (depending on what the case may be) but how is it like a last defence?

A bomb destroyed Nelson's Pillar in Dublin, Ireland 1966. They made this thing years later in it's place. Although that wasn't government... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spire_of_Dublin

Well, it was celebrating Lord Nelson, who was British, in the Republic of Ireland. So I do see why the IRA would want to bomb it during the Irish War of Independence. The same as when Iraqi's pulled down Saddam's monuments. I get that as a symbol destroying it has a powerful force behind it BUT why would your own government want to do such a thing?.

In the case of the IRA it neither was a government (as far as I am aware) and it was acting against the opposition who were the United Kingdom and the Irish Free State.

 

[Fetzenfisch]

Well we got a few things here, like the Brandenburger Tor , the Siegessäule etc. but nothing of that is worth a single soldiers life. Its goddamn stone and metal.

 

[ribonuge]

Why would the US government destroy monuments in their own country and how does that act have the potential to serve as "last hope?"

As a symbolic gesture I get how it can restore moral/demoralise (depending on what the case may be) but how is it like a last defence?

A bomb destroyed Nelson's Pillar in Dublin, Ireland 1966. They made this thing years later in it's place. Although that wasn't government... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spire_of_Dublin

Well, it was celebrating Lord Nelson, who was British, in the Republic of Ireland. So I do see why the IRA would want to bomb it during the Irish War of Independence. The same as when Iraqi's pulled down Saddam's monuments. I get that as a symbol destroying it has a powerful force behind it BUT why would your own government want to do such a thing?.

In the case of the IRA it neither was a government (as far as I am aware) and it was acting against the opposition who were the United Kingdom and the Irish Free State.

Yeah you're right. Originally the IRA was a guerrila army used in the War Of Independence. Later their views became increasingly socialist and they seperated from the likes of Eamon De Valera who actually banned them when he came into proper power in 1932. At that stage they were a rogue army more than anything.

 

[TheNamlessGuy]

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[SturmDolch]

Why would the US government destroy monuments in their own country and how does that act have the potential to serve as "last hope?"

As a symbolic gesture I get how it can restore moral/demoralise (depending on what the case may be) but how is it like a last defence?

It is the year 2052 and the combined mights of Canada, Venezuela, Belgium, and the Pirate Republic of Somalia have invaded mainland America. Their base of operations is under the Washington Monument. The United States, which has relocated its capital city to Sacramento (now known as New Washington, New D, New C), has the chance to strike a decisive blow to the enemy by placing C4 at the base of the Monument so that it crushes the base of operations, killing all the enemy generals at once.

 

[El Poncho]

Hmm, well Scotland has Robert the Bruce and William Wallace, but i'm not too sure what statues we have.

 

[Ph33nix]

I fixed it to explain what i meant because I was to vague in my original post. I ment if an enemy force took over the area around a monument what ones would a government never just carpet bomb