The Statue of Liberty Turns 125 Today October 28, 2011

                         THE STATUE OF LIBERTY TURNS 125 TODAY OCTOBER 28, 2011

The Statue of liberty was designed by Frédéric Bartholdi and dedicated on October 28, 1886. The statue, a gift to the United States from the people of France, is of a robed female figure representing of freedom, who bears a torch and a tablet evoking the law upon which is inscribed the date of the American Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776. A broken chain lies at her feet. The statue has become an icon of freedom and of the United States. 

Bartholdi was inspired by French law professor and politician Édouard René de Laboulaye, who commented in 1865 that any monument raised to American independence would properly be a joint project of the French and American peoples. Due to the troubled political situation in France, work on the statue did not commence until the early 1870s. In 1875, Laboulaye proposed that the French finance the statue and the Americans provide the pedestal and the site. Bartholdi completed both the head and the torch-bearing arm before the statue was fully designed, and these pieces were exhibited for publicity at international expositions.
Bartholdi put alot of work into the Statue of Liberty and we as Americans should be thankful.
I have never been to the Statue of Liberty but it makes a goood destination for my girlfried and I to go to.  At the age of 125 she still looks pretty damn good.