List Of New York City Parks Relating To The Vietnam War
Within the city-operated parks system of New York City, there are many parks that are either named after individuals who participated in the Vietnam War or contain monuments relating to the war. Manhattan * Vietnam Veterans Plaza * Anibal Aviles Playground * Corporal John A. Seravalli Playground Bronx * Carlos J. Lozada Playground Queens * Strack Pond * Elmhurst Park has the Queens Vietnam Veterans Memorial * Private William Gray Park * Walter J. Wetzel Triangle * Strippoli Square * Nine Heroes Plaza * Ten Heroes Plaza * Frank J. McManus Memorial * L/CPL Thomas P. Noonan Jr. Playground Brooklyn * Barone Triangle * Colonel Donald Cook Square * Hickman Playground * John Allen Payne Park * Pfc Norton Playground * Russell Pedersen Playground * Father Kehoe Square has a memorial for this war. * John Paul Jones Park has a memorial for this war. Staten Island * Buono Beach Buono Beach is a small shorefront public park in the New York City borough of Staten Island, in the nei ...
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TVA Memorial Day Ceremony (14078933927)
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is a Federal government of the United States, federally owned electric utility corporation in the United States. TVA's service area covers all of Tennessee, portions of Alabama, Mississippi, and Kentucky, and small areas of Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia, North Carolina, and Virginia. While owned by the federal government, TVA receives no taxpayer funding and operates similarly to a private for-profit company. It is headquartered in Knoxville, Tennessee, and is the sixth largest power supplier and largest public utility in the country. The TVA was created by Congress in 1933 as part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal. Its initial purpose was to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, Urban planning, regional planning, and economic development to the Tennessee Valley, a region that had suffered from lack of infrastructure and poverty during the Great Depression, relative to the rest of th ...
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