369th monument is in!

The monument itself has at last been installed, after sitting in France for several years and sitting in the Armory basement for several more. Here's how it went...

The monument was in four pieces, and had to be hauled out of the basement by forklift (the 369th allowed us to use their classic old lift).

































Once outside, a crane truck lifted each piece carefully and set it on the truck bed.

































The pieces were then trucked to the site and verrrry slowly offloaded, then stacked up like the towers of blocks that my daughter makes. There's a special kind of grout in between each piece to encourage them to stick together, and sealant between each piece to keep the water out.
















And that's it! It'll remain covered until the grand unveiling this fall. Now we just have to finish the rest of the site -- but the trickiest part is over.