Winston Churchill's Famous Speech

 Traveling back from National Headquarters a few weeks I ago, I stopped at Mama's usual break spot, near Kingdom City, Missouri.  While she romped in the dog park, I remembered that just a few miles south, in Fulton, there was a monument to Winston Churchill I had never visited.  Of course, we drove down to see it!

On March 5, 1946, Churchill and President Truman arrived in this very small Missouri town and Churchill gave his most famous post World War II address:  "The Sinews of Peace".  You probably know it more for his Iron Curtain comments!!

Yes, in this sleepy town one of the most famous phrases of the Cold War were uttered:  "An Iron Curtain has descended across the Continent"

I was only able to get these pictures because of construction at the church where he spoke.  There is a rather large section of the Berlin Wall on display and also a full size statue of Churchill, but they are behind barricades.  Still, standing on the same spot as Churchill did 75 years ago, I was struck once again at the greatness of this man.  He called it, and we lived it.  Thankfully, we won the Cold War many years later.  America!