$150K requested for Amelia Earhart statue
A committee dedicated to enshrining the memory of Amelia Earhart has requested a funding of $150,000 from the Saipan and Northern Islands Legislative Delegation to create a monument on Saipan.
Last Thursday, a proposal was written for the local delegation by a representative of the Amelia Earhart Committee enumerated the reasons as to why a monument is necessary.
The committee plans to build a 12-foot statue in Earhart’s honor on Saipan, where Earhart allegedly was imprisoned and died.
“It is time for Saipan to acknowledge the presence of Amelia Earhart in 1937 and build a memorial monument in her honor…a 12-foot statue witnessing to the whole world that Saipan is the island where Amelia Earhart was known to have lived,” the proposal reads.
The committee is requesting for $150,000 from the delegation to fund the statue. The committee believes that a 12-foot monument is crucial to have on Saipan for various reasons.
According to Amelia Earhart Committee representative Marie Soledad Camacho Castro, her co-committee members believe strongly that the alleged historical theory that Earhart was held captive on Saipan should be acknowledged as an important historical event.
“On behalf of the Amelia Earhart Committee, I strongly believe that Saipan should acknowledge the important historical event dating back to 1937,” Castro wrote. “Amelia Earhart was brought to Saipan by the Japanese after her plane came down in the Pacific.”
In her letter Castro writes that Earhart’s accomplishments should be remembered on Saipan because this year marks the 80th year when Earhart’s plane allegedly crashed in the Pacific.
“Amelia Earhart was a famous American pilot…Earhart was an accomplished woman…this year marks the 80th year when her plane came down in the Pacific,” wrote Castro.
The committee believes that a monument will attract international visitors.
“The memorial statue would be an international media eyewitness account and a significant visitor site,” she wrote.
She was never factually here. Oh, but you wanted to attract more visitors to the island through the false beatification of a perceptual heroine. The NMI would finally stamp itself the laughing stock of nations all over for putting up a statue based on false information.
it’s not that implausible. 1.) that she was found by the Japanese 2.) that she was moved somewhere- to another island, possibly to Saipan 3.) that she was executed quickly, and possibly even ritually cannibalized 4.) that the American Government was and is now aware of these facts, but sees no benefit to American-Japanese relations by disclosing or acknowledging them
Vd
There is no plausible of reliable evidence that she was ever here. Dont you have more important issues to attend to? Like the road that has been under construction for 8 years now, like the sewage issue in lower base, garapan, etc. Like the fact that prices for food and other items now cost more than what we make for minimum wage.
You said Bruddah. Laughing stock of the planet. National Geographic and TIGHAR with four sniffing dogs are in Nukumaroro of the Gilbert (Kiribati) island group trying to determine the crash site and where would they have drifted. The ship log of the Kosha Maru, identified in the Jaluit photograph, was checked and there was nothing about finding the two American aviators. Fukiko Aoki, a Japanese author and Journalist, found Yoneji Inoue, one Japanese weathermen stationed in Kapingamarangi rejected the proposition that the Japanese Government found the two aviators and executed them. So, as of now, I think Marie Camacho Castro should re-think her proposition about Earhart and Noonan being here at the Garapan jail. None of us has seen the two American aviators except thru news articles and hypotheticals, theories and conjectures. So now, a $150,000 for a 12-footer memorial staue of two people who disappeared in 1937 between Ecuador and the Equator. No right. Give that money to NMTI and NMC.