Photo of the day: 4,000+ SOLDIERS LOST IN IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN – On Memorial Day weekend, I always take my guests to Marble Collegiate Church on Fifth Avenue and 29th Street, which since 2006 has honored the fallen soldiers of these wars. Every Sunday yellow ribbons are added to the ever growing sea of yellows ribbons on their cast iron fence surrounding the church. Look at the white name tags and see all their names, but more movingly – see all their ages: 18, 19, 21, 23, 24, 26. . . a tragic loss of young lives.
Dr. Norman Vincent Peale served as senior minister from 1932-1984 here, preaching ‘the power of positive thinking’. Under his ministry Marble’s influence reached national levels and became known as “America’s Hometown Church.” On November 19, 1961, Lucille Ball married her second husband Gary Morton in the church. On March 16, 2002 Liza Minnelli married gay David Gest in a freak $4 million dollar wedding ceremony. In the wedding party were Michael Jackson, Elizabeth Taylor and Diana Ross.
This church has seen a lot of history since being built in 1852, but today the most stark historical reminder is offered by this church with these yellow ribbons. Let’s think positively that this church won’t have to add many more names in the future, enough is enough.
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May 27, 2013 | Categories: DAILY PHOTOS WITH STORIES OF NEW YORK CITY | Tags: 'The Power of Positive Thinking', 1852, America's Hometown Church, David Gest, Diana Ross, Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, Elizabeth Taylor, Fifth Avenue and 29th Street, freak wedding, Gary Morton, Hans Von Rittern, Liza Minnelli, Lucille Ball, Manhattan, Marble Collegiate Church, Memorial Day, Michael Jackson, New York City, New York photo, power of positive thinking, ribbons | Leave a comment
Petty Officer 3rd Class Nathan B. Bruckenthal – 24
SSGT John C. Bene – 38
Specialist Jeremy Brown – 20
LCPL Brandon T. Lara – 20
SSGT. Eric James Lindstrom – 27
PFC Thomas F. Lyons – 20
PFC Jason F. Lemke – 30
CPL Brett L. Lundstrom
SGT Adrian J. Lewis – 30
Marble Collegiate Church at 272 Fifth Avenue, corner of 29th street in Manhattan founded in 1628, is one of the oldest continous Protestant congregations in North America. Built in 1851-1854, originally called the Fifth Avenue Church, has the facade covered in Tuckahoe marble for which now the church is named. Marble Collegiate’s senior minister between 1932 and 1984 was the famous Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, and in case you forgot precisely why he was famous, it’s because he was the man who, among other things, wrote “The Power of Positive Thinking.”
In honor of the old song “Tie a Yellow Ribbon Around the Old Oak Tree”, they have lined it’s old cast iron gates that surround the church, with yellow ribbons honoring the soldiers lives lost in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. There are over 4,000 of them . . .
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November 11, 2012 | Categories: DAILY PHOTOS WITH STORIES OF NEW YORK CITY | Tags: 'The Power of Positive Thinking', 'Tie a Yellow Ribbon Around The Old Oak Tree', 29th Street, 4000 names, dead soldiers, Fifth Avenue, Hans Von Rittern, Manhattan, Marble Collegiate Church, New York City, Pastor Norman Vincent Peale, politics, soldiers names, Tuckahoe marble, Veterans Day | Leave a comment
NEW YORK CITY - IN THE WIT OF AN EYE 