
Pershing Park
Memorial park in Washington, D.C., United StatesWikipedia
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Sep 9, 2026
Victor Davis Hanson: Modern ‘Art’ Is Separating Man from Meaning feat. Sculptor Sabin Howard
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5:43Sabin HowardGUEST
... maintained and played forward.
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5:45Sabin HowardGUEST
And the World War I memorial is, doesn't, it, it doesn't look like something done 500 years ago.
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5:51Sabin HowardGUEST
It looks connected-
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5:52Victor Davis HansonHOST
Mm-hmm
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11:21Victor Davis HansonHOST
Do you...
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11:23Victor Davis HansonHOST
Are you trying to, to idealiz- idealize the human form, or do you try to portray it in every aspect of, of realism, wrinkles, everything, the way it appears to the n- the eye, so to speak?
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11:37Sabin HowardGUEST
I definitely have a connection to Hellenistic art in, in, in, in especially the World War I memorial-
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11:43Victor Davis HansonHOST
Mm-hmm
Honoring the Fallen at Flanders Field American Cemetery
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24:05Christopher SimsGUEST
He received the Distinguished Service Cross for courage and devotion to duty on that day, and he's the only soldier buried at Flanders Field who lost his life in 1917.
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24:18Christopher SimsGUEST
His name is also memorialized at the Harvard World War I Memorial, and he was actually the first American officer to be killed in combat.
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24:29Christopher SimsGUEST
A third... individual, which has special connections, is Theodore Todd.
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24:37Christopher SimsGUEST
He was born in Bedford Park, New York, in 1889.
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37:40MikeHOST
He was the brother of Archibald McLeish, who I actually just – In the spring, I wrote a little podcast episode because he had a very famous poem, The Young Dead Soldiers Do Not Speak.
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37:55MikeHOST
Yes.
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37:55MikeHOST
Part of that poem is now on the World War I Memorial in D.C. Ah,
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37:59Christopher SimsGUEST
right.