Navy Memorial & Naval Heritage Center

The hunched figure of the Lone Sailor, warding off the wind with his flipped-up pea coat, waiting quietly by his duffel, is our favorite service (rather than war) memorial in the city. No other work of art quite captures the quiet strength that drives enlisted personnel on and brings them home after years away. The sailor waits in a circular plaza bordered by masts sporting semaphore flags; the space is meant to evoke both the vastness and ubiquity of the sea. The Naval Heritage Center, on the same grounds, displays artifacts and ship models, and has a meditation room and Navy Memorial Log.