Graduation Speech: The Statue Of Liberty

She is huge and green but also beautiful and she sailed into New York Harbor on June 17, 1885. Who is she? The Statue of Liberty and at the moment that she arrived she was dismantled and needed assistance to be put together. She was a gift of friendship from France to America. The Statue of Liberty sailed across the Atlantic Ocean in 350 individual pieces which had been packed in over 200 cases. Now at this point I would have probably wanted to know two things one of them being if she came with full instructions and the second if the pieces were numbered. I know my parents saw her as soon as they sailed into New York Harbor as immigrants in 1051. As a child I had a vivid imagination and I thought how wonderful it would be if someone built a huge chair for Lady Liberty so that she could sit down when she got tired. I of course, did not take it into mind that she was made of iron and couldn’t possible sit down. She has been in a lot of movies but I love the special effects that were done in “Ghostbusters II” when they got her to walk in the streets of Manhattan. I have included the video here.

This statue which was made of copper and iron was then reassembled and dedicated the following year. The ceremony was dedicated by the 22nd U.S. President Grover Cleveland and the Statue …show more content…
President Calvin Coolidge made the Statue of Liberty a national monument in 1924. At this time the statue underwent a big restoration and the lady received a new torch and a gold-leaf covered flame. She was rededicated on July 4, 1986 by the 40th U.S. President Ronald Reagan. The statue was closed after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 and later its base, pedestal and observation deck reopened in 2004. The crown was re-opened to the public on July 4, 2009. Her torch remains closed. The statue has become one of America’s most famous landmarks and has been the site of rallies and protests and has been featured in movies and photographed many