Monday Murals: At the Eisenhower Museum

I'm once again joining Sami at Sami's Colourful World and her Monday Murals. Although I post at my regular time, please be aware that Sami's mural linky won't go live until 9:01 a.m. my time, at least if I have calculated correctly, which I obviously did NOT.  Apparently Sami's murals will go live at 10:01 my time.  For some reason, I can't add a clock to my sidebar representing Perth, Western Australia, Australia.

Back on September 21, I visited the Eisenhower Museum in Abilene, Kansas (USA).  This is outside the museum near his boyhood home.  I realize I took these photos earlier and I've even shown them on my blog before, but even if you joined me for the original post, I will explain things I didn't when I first showed these photos.

The museum, which is a part of the complex, had been completely revamped with new exhibits.  Built by the Eisenhower Foundation with funds raised through public gifts, the museum building is constructed of Kansas limestone. Originally dedicated on Veterans Day in 1954, the museum was built to house the materials and objects related to Eisenhower's life.   Since tomorrow is Veterans (aka Remembrance or Armistice) Day, I thought the Monday Murals group would appreciate these because they are quite relevant.

When you walk into the first room of the museum, you are immediately inundated with mural after mural after mural.  From what I could tell, the mural on the far right is when he addressed NATO.  From December 21, 1950 through May 31, 1952, Eisenhower or Ike as I like to call him, was the Supreme Commander of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization or NATO.

The second mural to the left shows Ike and Mamie at home with their first born son Doud, who died when he was three and a half.  Note the golf clubs. Ike was a big fan of golf and after he won the Presidency, he had a putting green installed on the south lawn of the White House.  According to Golf Digest, Ike played golf at various golf courses more than 800 times during his presidency.

The next mural is Ike taking the oath of office of the Presidency with Mamie and others looking on.

The next mural is Ike in his famous Eisenhower jacket, when he inspected the troops.  From February 13, 1944 through July 13, 1945 he was the Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Forces in Europe.

The final photo may be from West Point, where he graduated in 1915.  He may have been giving a commencement address after he became famous because he wasn't at the top of his class in 1915, graduating 61 of 164.

In case you can't read the sentiment at the bottom of this mural, it is "Supreme Command."  It shows Ike during the war years.  Although he never fought in battle, he was in charge of all the men and women in the European theater who were under his command.  It further shows how he planned and executed D-Day, the largest sea invasion in history.  Just look at all those flags representing different countries that participated in D-Day.

This mural shows he was in charge of the "Command Operations."

If you enjoy murals found around the world, please don't forget to visit Monday Murals at Sami's Colourful World.

And because I needed to show something new for AEDM, 

I have created this tag for Tag Tuesday where seeds and plants is the theme that Michele has chosen.  

I'm also joining Moo-Mania and More, getting in just under the wire with their Circles theme.  

Apparently my green dye ink pad was dry, because the circles I made were quite faint.

The black dye ink was more obvious.

There's a bit of symbolism in this tag, too.  For those of you who live in the states or are familiar with some of our cities, all the fruit symbolize a specific city.   The avocado (yes, it's a fruit) symbolizes Los Angeles, California.  The cherry symbolizes Washington D.C. where the cherry blossoms bloom each year.  The apple is for the Big Apple, or New York City, New York.

For this tag, I cut a piece of fun foam to size, then stamped green and black circles on the foam.  I fussy cut the fruit and the word from various magazines.  There was no way I was going to be able to cut the stems on the cherries or the apple and not destroy the images.  I had trouble getting glue to adhere, so ended up affixing everything with glue dots.  Finally, I backed the tag with a decorated paper (kitchen) towel that had been stamped and colored. 

Thanks for stopping by today, as I shared murals with mural friends from Sami's Colourful World I took at the Eisenhower Museum in September.  Then I joined AEDM where I shared a tag I created for the challenges at Tag Tuesday and Moo-Mania and More.  I hope to see you at each of these places today.

This is Day 9 of Art Every Day Month (AEDM) hosted by Leah Piken Kolidas, and I
created a tag for Tag Tuesday and Moo-Mania and More, and shared a few murals, too.