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War Correspondents Memorial Arch

United States of America

War Correspondents Memorial Arch

The National War Correspondents Memorial, part of Gathland State Park, is a memorial dedicated to journalists who died in war. It is located at Crampton's Gap at South Mountain, near Burkittsville, Maryland, in the United States. Civil War correspondent George Alfred Townsend, or "Gath", built the a

rch in 1896, and it was dedicated October 16, 1896. It is claimed that the arch is the only monument in the world dedicated to journalists killed in combat. However, a tree in Arlington National Cemetery was also dedicated as a war correspondents' memorial in 1986.

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