{"id":378,"date":"2021-02-25T08:58:04","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T13:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sculpturebywynn.com\/site\/?page_id=378"},"modified":"2021-02-25T09:21:35","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T14:21:35","slug":"lt-col-sam-sharpe","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sculpturebywynn.com\/site\/lt-col-sam-sharpe\/","title":{"rendered":"Lt. Col. Sam Sharpe"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lt. Col. Sam Sharpe<\/i>, bronze (2018), 120% life size, Uxbridge<\/p><\/div>\n

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Unveiled on May 25, 2018<\/p><\/div>\n

The Sam Sharpe statue was unveiled on May 25, 2018 – the 100th anniversary of his death. The ceremony included a military parade, the attendance of many veterans, and representation of senior military officers and politicians, as well as a large community crowd.<\/p>\n

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Dear Mary<\/p><\/div>\n

The letter in his hand begins \u201cDear Mary\u201d. Col. Sharpe wrote to the family of each man who died. The statue shows him agonizing over how to tell Mary Walton that her husband (Sharpe\u2019s best friend) has been killed.<\/p>\n

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\nThe plaque tells the poignant story of Col. Sharpe, and how he is, finally, recognized as a true hero.<\/p>\n

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Working on Final Details<\/p><\/div>\n

The sculptor working on the full-size clay, from which the final\u00a0<\/span>bronze was cast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Sam Sharpe statue was unveiled on May 25, 2018 – the 100th anniversary of his death. The ceremony included a military parade, the attendance of many veterans, and representation of senior military officers and politicians, as well as a large community crowd. The letter in his hand begins \u201cDear Mary\u201d. Col. Sharpe wrote to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-378","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","content-columns-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sculpturebywynn.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sculpturebywynn.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sculpturebywynn.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sculpturebywynn.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sculpturebywynn.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/sculpturebywynn.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":392,"href":"https:\/\/sculpturebywynn.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/378\/revisions\/392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sculpturebywynn.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}