Talk:Welsh National War Memorial

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In the article the statue is named as " Victory " but is there evidence for that name as opposed to " The Angel of The Armistice " ?

I have been walking to and fro past this statue of what I presume religiously to be The Archangel Michael but I do not call it that. Presumeably in reference to " the going down of the sun " the statue faces the gateway which opens to the west. I have always taken the symbolism to literally be a double edged sword : in its right i.e. dexter hand the angel holds up the cross as a sign of eternal peace towards those who have sacrificed their lives - but equally the implication is that this is also a sword and it can be transferred to its left i.e. sinister hand. I read the symbolism as saying " Disobey God and war will return " i.e. that the expressed wish is for peace but the gesture implies a readiness for war : in 1918 there was not Peace but an Armistice.

Hence I habitually refer to it as " The Angel of The Armistice " and I thought that is in fact its title - not " Victory " - and I thought that David Davies had had something to do with its creation because of his campaigning for The League of Nations and building The Temple of Health and Peace around the same time - so is there any evidence that it really is called " Victory " ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_of_Peace_and_Health

" ... Lord Davies wished for the Temple of Peace and Health to be "a memorial to those gallant men from all nations who gave their lives in the war that was to end war" and so it was dedicated to the memory of those who laid down their lives in that war. Davies had fought in the trenches during this war, and was actively involved in the search for stable international order through the League of Nations and the League of Nations Union. ... " what doth it profit a nation if it gains the whole world and loses its own soul ? " ... "DaiSaw (talk) 22:53, 4 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Needs work

Aside from the lack of citations, the third para. of the body of the article (beginning, “The memorial’s form was inspired…”) is rather odd. Apart from being a very long sentence, I cannot work out what it is trying to say. It has a ^{[citation needed]} tag, but that wouldn’t make its meaning any clearer. Does anyone know what is trying to be expressed here? KJP1 (talk) 07:17, 27 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]