Peace and Remembrance

Friday-Sunday, Nov. 2‑11, 2018
11/02/2018
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Concept illustration of poppy light projection on the Memorial

For the nine days leading up to the Armistice, the official WWI memorial of the United States was illuminated with a nearly 55 million pixel, 800,000 lumens display featuring more than 5,000 poppies each evening in a massive and moving light installation. Every 15 minutes, a special presentations of images, footage and details about World War I appeared. Peace and Remembrance marked the centennial of the Armistice of 1918 that brought an end to WWI, with each day of the installation leading up to the Armistice signifying one million of the total nine million combatant deaths of the conflict.

 

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PRESENTING SPONSOR
The United States World War One Centennial Commission
 
CENTENNIAL SPONSOR
City of Kansas City, Missouri
Edward Jones
Price Brothers Management Company
Marny and John Sherman
 
HONORARY COMMITTEE
Barbara and Peter Gattermeir
General Delegation of the Government of Flanders to the USA
Hallmark Cards
KCP&L
Lockton Companies
Neighborhood Tourist Development Fund of Kansas City, Missouri
PNC Bank
Kathy and Joel Ross
The Sunderland Foundation
TD Ameritrade
U.S. Bank
Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States
Meg and Rick Young