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When was it created?-- 24.185.7.139 ( talk) 15:41, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
I don't know if a gallery is appropriate for this article or if it should just have the link to Commons. I have uploaded a photo of The Lone Sailor monument in Long Beach, CA that might be appropriate for this article.
- - MrBill3 ( talk) 19:20, 19 March 2014 (UTC)
Rear Admiral William Thompson was the first president and CEO of the Navy Memorial Foundation, which raised the funds to create the Navy Memorial. As a tribute to Thompson's work to bring the memorial to fruition, sculptor Stanley Bleifeld placed Thompson's initials on the sea bag. [1] The Lone Sailor model is Dan Maloney LCDR,USN (Retired). LCDR Maloney modeled in 1983 when he was a Petty Officer First Class assigned to the submarine USS Alabama. There were other earlier models but the designs created from those sessions were not approved. [2] After giving up on honor guard models, Bleifeld asked New London Submarine Base for someone more typical. [3]
My name is XXX. I worked closely with sculptor Stanley Bleifeld on the final design of the Lone Sailor and also the Liberty Hound statue located in Jacksonville, FL. I have correspondence between Stanley and myself to support this claim. I am a retired sailor and now work for the federal government as an employee of the Department of the Navy. I am cited in the current page as the model for just the body of the Lone Sailor. A former memorial curator, Mark Webber, published an article stating that the face was modeled after RADM Thompson similar to what is currently written on the Wikipedia page. I contacted Mark to tell him that wasn't true asked him why he wrote that and what was his source. Mark apologized and told me that he heard the admiral's wife remark that the statue looked like her husband when he was young. I have the e-mails between Mark and I. If you look at a picture of me and a picture of the admiral, the truth is evident. Mark hosted me at the Navy Memorial in DC in April 2015. He introduced me to several staff members and gave me some mementos. He apologized again. My visit was photographed by the memorial's official photographer, Jeff Malet. I would just like to set the record straight. RealLoneSailor ( talk) 01:37, 16 October 2017 (UTC)
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When was it created?-- 24.185.7.139 ( talk) 15:41, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
I don't know if a gallery is appropriate for this article or if it should just have the link to Commons. I have uploaded a photo of The Lone Sailor monument in Long Beach, CA that might be appropriate for this article.
- - MrBill3 ( talk) 19:20, 19 March 2014 (UTC)
Rear Admiral William Thompson was the first president and CEO of the Navy Memorial Foundation, which raised the funds to create the Navy Memorial. As a tribute to Thompson's work to bring the memorial to fruition, sculptor Stanley Bleifeld placed Thompson's initials on the sea bag. [1] The Lone Sailor model is Dan Maloney LCDR,USN (Retired). LCDR Maloney modeled in 1983 when he was a Petty Officer First Class assigned to the submarine USS Alabama. There were other earlier models but the designs created from those sessions were not approved. [2] After giving up on honor guard models, Bleifeld asked New London Submarine Base for someone more typical. [3]
My name is XXX. I worked closely with sculptor Stanley Bleifeld on the final design of the Lone Sailor and also the Liberty Hound statue located in Jacksonville, FL. I have correspondence between Stanley and myself to support this claim. I am a retired sailor and now work for the federal government as an employee of the Department of the Navy. I am cited in the current page as the model for just the body of the Lone Sailor. A former memorial curator, Mark Webber, published an article stating that the face was modeled after RADM Thompson similar to what is currently written on the Wikipedia page. I contacted Mark to tell him that wasn't true asked him why he wrote that and what was his source. Mark apologized and told me that he heard the admiral's wife remark that the statue looked like her husband when he was young. I have the e-mails between Mark and I. If you look at a picture of me and a picture of the admiral, the truth is evident. Mark hosted me at the Navy Memorial in DC in April 2015. He introduced me to several staff members and gave me some mementos. He apologized again. My visit was photographed by the memorial's official photographer, Jeff Malet. I would just like to set the record straight. RealLoneSailor ( talk) 01:37, 16 October 2017 (UTC)
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