Eagle Globe & Anchor © 1987
About the Eagle Globe & Anchor Sculpture
Grenada - October 1983 - Marine Corps helicopter and crew shot down at Grand Anse Beach. Later that year, I was commissioned to create a memorial honoring our servicemen who paid the ultimate price there. The memorial was installed and dedicated on the Grand Anse Campus of St.Georges University, October 25, 1994.
February 1985 - Grenada - President Ronald Reagan lays a wreath at the Grenada Memorial . Days before the ceremony, I became friends with a Marine Corps pilot who led the assault on the gun emplacements that shot down his friend. After listening to his and other Marine's stories, I was struck by the global commitment of the Marine Corps. - With the help of the Marine pilot, who was then the Marine Corps Aide to President Reagan, I began researching the history of the Marine Corps Emblem and discovered that it was never approached as sculpture in the round. Its history began in 1868 and it has survived unchanged in concept. - I felt that, just as the monument on Grenada honored those fallen ( as do all of the monuments on all beaches and battlefields ) , the living should also be remembered. So with these feelings, I went to my studio and sculpted the Eagle Globe & Anchor fashioning it as accurately as possible after the official emblem. In November of 1988 the United States Marine Corps formally accepted my Eagle Globe & Anchor Sculpture as theirs in a ceremony in Commandant Al Grey's office. The statue now appears in many collections throughout the world. - Ken Clark
The Sculpture can be purchased at the Marine Museum Gift Shop
$ 210.00
