John Paul Jones

Just outside the WW II memorial in Washington DC as you head towards the tidal basin the street forks at that fork there is the John Paul Jones Memorial . It seem this memorial as it sit in a high traffic of autos and pedestrian, there isn't mobs of people clambering to see it. A historical part of the foundation of our nation help lead the way and to inspire national navel deffence.

John Paul Jones (July 6, 1747 – July 18, 1792) was the United States' first well-known naval fighter in the American Revolutionary War. Although he made enemies among America's political elites, his actions in British waters during the Revolution earned him an international reputation which persists to this day.