I don’t know the story of this group of statues except that they depict typical young people from an earlier era and are located in the common area of a downtown Pensacola residential area.
Admiral John Towers, Naval Aviator number 3. In 1914, then Lt. Towers was ordered to Pensacola to create the first training program for Naval Aviators.
Obviously a Photoshop composite. This combines heavily modified elements of a bronze statue from the US Naval Air Museum and a scene from St. Michael’s Cemetery in Pensacola. St. Michaels contains graves from the 1700’s when Florida was a Spanish colony.
Closeup of the Confederate Memorial Monument located in Arlington National Cemetery. I recently read that the storm clouds were gathering around this monument for it’s removal as, I suppose, a National disgrace.
I like the idea of public art like the first statue. There used to be a statue in downtown Manhattan of a businessman sitting on a real bench. I always enjoyed seeing that statue. I felt it was sort of there for me personally.