Stonehenge, USA.

[Tonyb]

I realize that this topic was covered in 2011, however I took a number of pictures during my visit last week and I thought these might be of interest to members.
First: my apologies for any and all flaws in the photography- it is not one of my skill sets! 
Second: background. This memorial to the young men of Klickitat County, Washington State, who died on the Western Front in 1917-18 is perched high above the mighty Columbia River just east of the highway 97 bridge, about 100 miles east of Portland, Oregon. It was the brainchild of Sam Hill a successful lawyer and business man whose bio is on Wikipedia. 
Four pictures here. The rest in next post. Views looking west and south. Tony

[Terry_Reeves]

Interesting, thanks for posting.

TR

[Tonyb]

Second Stonehenge post.

All the young men have plaques with their names. And just to complete the picture, on the same site, about 200 yards to the north is a memorial to the Countie’s dead in subsequent military actions up to the present.

[Tonyb]

BTW, the temperature when I took these pics was 97F in the shade. Four days earlier it was 116F and three days later it was 103F. Glad I caught the cool day. 
Tony

[Moonraker]

Recent Googling for Stonehenge led me to an article in the Goldendale Sentinel (the local newspaper) reporting on a lecture given in 2019, in which the audience  were told that "Sam Hill first got the idea of building a replica of Stonehenge when he visited the American troop encampment on Salisbury Plain in 1916. While he was there, British Field Marshall Lord Kitchener showed him Stonehenge. Repeating the lore of the time, Kitchener explained that the altar was where the ancient Druids offered human sacrifices to placate the gods of war."

Of course Kitchener died the year before America entered the war and there never any "American troop encampments" on the Plain (though American personnel did train at various Wiltshire airfields, including that near the monument).

Further Googling revealed that Hill was in England in April 1915, with various articles mentioning his visit to Stonehenge with  Kitchener and the latter's account of human sacrifices. "Lord Earl Kitchener", as one report has it, had good reason to visit the Plain with its tens of thousands of recruits, though I wonder if he would have had the time to show Hill (a Quaker and life-long pacifist) the sights. (Hill's biographer John E. Tuhy  - Sam Hill: The Prince of Castle Nowhere, 1983 - occasionally questions aspects of Hill's own account of his life and finds contradictions in anecdotes told at various times.)