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Reproduced in bronze, this actual scene should make good art and a fitting tribute to American men and American valor.†
Chpt 12. *
A model for the world's tallest bronze monument, certainly.†
Chpt 14.
He did not live to see his son immortalized in bronze.†
Chpt 18.
The gigantic work of art it had inspired—the world's tallest bronze statue, the only monument in the nation's capital commemorating World War II—continued to take shape in Washington.†
Chpt 18.
Sculptor Felix de Weldon worked feverishly at it as the years went by; working in plaster to form the molding for a finished casting in bronze, the great mass to be established at Arlington National Cemetery.†
Chpt 18.
Far from simply translocating from the studio to nearby Arlington, the sculptor's completed plaster mold would have to be broken down into component parts—eighteen one-ton sections for each plaster figure—and transported by truck to a Brooklyn foundry for casting into bronze.†
Chpt 18.
Then those massive bronze figures would have to be trucked back to Washington, there to be bolted and welded together into the final, unified piece.†
Chpt 18.
On September 2, 1954, the great bronze elements—the Brobdingnagian bodies, stretched out and secured on three flatbed trucks—began their journey.†
Chpt 18.
Now they had witnessed their "immortal" collective image transubstantiated to bronze.†
Chpt 18.
It's as if fate chose them to serve the image: to create that happenstance tableau atop Suribachi; to storm the country with its banner under Presidential orders; to give it celluloid life; and then finally to institutionalize it in bronze.†
Chpt 19.
One hundred tons of bronze, requiring an act of both houses of Congress and the President's signature to so much as chisel another word in its base.†
Chpt 19.
To me it's as if Ira, Rene, and John served the image from photo to film to bronze, and once it was safely in its final form, they were released to their individual destinies.†
Chpt 19.
It took nearly two years, but on July 7, 1981, newspapers carried photographs of Pauline at the U.S. Marine Corps War Memorial, gazing up at her bronzed hero on the day of his Arlington burial.†
Chpt 19.
On its back is a bronze relief of the flagraising and an inscription: FOR GOD AND HIS COUNTRY HE RAISED OUR FLAG IN BATTLE AND SHOWED A MEASURE OF HIS PRIDE AT A PLACE CALLED IWO JIMA WHERE COURAGE NEVER DIED Twenty* There are no great men.†
Chpt 19.
The Arlington, Virginia, statue is still the world's tallest bronze monument.†
Chpt Aft.
And I think you are gratified that I wrote of you and your fellow flagraisers as ordinary guys, not bronzed warriors of "uncommon valor."†
Chpt Aft.

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(1) (bronze as in: bronze won't corrode in salt water)
a brownish-colored metal with red or yellow hues that is made of copper and (usually) tin

Bronze metals in the Olympics and many other contests are awarded for third place.

With the discovery of bronze (about 3,000 BC), people could make tools and weapons that were harder and more durable than those made of copper and stone that preceded bronze.
(2) (bronze as in: a bronze tan)
a reddish-brown or yellowish-brown color like that of one of the metals with the same name -- often used to refer to a suntan or a dark glowing complexion
(3) (bronze as in: her bronze is on display)
something made of the brownish metal with the same name -- such as a sculpture (statue) or a third place medal
(4) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)

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