<P> Erected By The Marine Corps War Memorial Foundation, With Funds Provided By Marines And Their Friends, And With The Cooperation And Support Of Many Public Officials . </P> <P> Dedicated, November 10, 1954" </P> <P> A persistent rumor has attributed the existence of a thirteenth hand from the six statues of the men depicted on the memorial and speculation about the possible reasons for it . When informed of the rumor, de Weldon exclaimed, "Thirteen hands . Who needed 13 hands? Twelve were enough ." </P> <P> In the siting controversy for the U.S. Air Force Memorial, originally to be near de Weldon's work, J. Carter Brown (in 1998, chairman of the United States Commission of Fine Arts) described the Marine Corps Memorial as, "I would say that the Iwo Jima memorial is kitsch . It was taken from a photograph, it is by a sculptor, even though he was a member of this commission at one point, who is not going to go down as a Michelangelo in history--and yet it is very effective, largely because of its site ." This remark was met with calls for Brown's resignation from the commission, and disagreement over the categorization from the commission's staff . </P>

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