A monument is a place or thing that denotes the persistency of a cloud of symbolic significance over an event that occurred in the past. The Prison Ship Martyrs Monument was erected on the 14th of November 1908 by the sculptor Adolph Alexander Weinman and the architect Stanford White. It is an affable monument located in Fort Greene Park in Brooklyn, New York that commemorates the lives of 11,500 Americans who were imprisoned by the British during the American Revolution and died egregiously because of the diseases and grievous conditions on the ships. This monument, as well as many others whom great respect is bestowed upon, is a monument that conceives much sympathy and empathy to the unfortunate deaths of many American martyrs in the past.
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it stands on a level of two big steps and it is viewed to be the tallest hill in Brooklyn. One can still point out the monument even when not in Fort Greene Park. There are exactly one hundred steps leading up to the monument, in which after each step, a burden of suspension falls on your back until you reach the last step and that burden drops a flight of a hundred steps waiting patiently for the next customer. Only once you reach that last step, you can feel and touch the greatness of the monument. All other thoughts in your mind is occupied by the attachment to the burden and falls down with it. Furthermore, the white color of the monument brings out the purity of each and every one of those American colonists, and that purity rests on you when you are on that “hill.” There are a number of ways to get up to the monument. The first and most simple way being the center in which you walk up those useful steps. The second way is to walk up one of the four various routes at each corner of the monument. Similarly, whichever route you take, you will find yourself walking up to the masterpiece. There are four eagles placed at the four corners of the monument symbolizing the incessant watch and care over the monument and the long gone prisoners. The inscription on the monument states that the monument commemorates the spirits of the soldiers who were imprisoned by the British during the Revolutionary War. The American
it stands on a level of two big steps and it is viewed to be the tallest hill in Brooklyn. One can still point out the monument even when not in Fort Greene Park. There are exactly one hundred steps leading up to the monument, in which after each step, a burden of suspension falls on your back until you reach the last step and that burden drops a flight of a hundred steps waiting patiently for the next customer. Only once you reach that last step, you can feel and touch the greatness of the monument. All other thoughts in your mind is occupied by the attachment to the burden and falls down with it. Furthermore, the white color of the monument brings out the purity of each and every one of those American colonists, and that purity rests on you when you are on that “hill.” There are a number of ways to get up to the monument. The first and most simple way being the center in which you walk up those useful steps. The second way is to walk up one of the four various routes at each corner of the monument. Similarly, whichever route you take, you will find yourself walking up to the masterpiece. There are four eagles placed at the four corners of the monument symbolizing the incessant watch and care over the monument and the long gone prisoners. The inscription on the monument states that the monument commemorates the spirits of the soldiers who were imprisoned by the British during the Revolutionary War. The American