ATLANTA — The World Athletes’ Monument and Millennium Gate Museum has become a focal point of mourning and reflection since the passing of Queen Elizabeth.
In these pictures, you can see mourners left flowers, stuffed animals and even cards.
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Rodney Mims Cook, president of the National Monuments Foundation, told Channel 2 Action News Kristen Holloway that the World Athletes’ Monument was a gift to the city of Atlanta from King Charles during the 1996 Olympic Games.
“We built a peace park that King Charles suggested to Mayor Reid that we rebuilt. It’s finished over in Vine City — King Charles fingerprints are all over it and they’re all over this monument behind me. He gave us a monument to the Olympic Games at Persian Point,” Cook said.
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Cook also plans to show support leading up to the Queen’s funeral.
“We’re going to be draping the top of our headquarters millennium gates behind me with black drapery and then also the Olympics monument we’ll be draping with black drapery as they customarily do for royal funerals in Britain,” he said.
Cook has a close relationship with King Charles, whom he says told him in previous years that he admires Georgia being at the forefront of the peace movement.
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“He’s really interested in the South and really Georgia and has a great affinity for our state and spent millions of dollars here because of that,” Cook said.
On Monday, the queen’s funeral starts at 11 a.m. London time, which is 6 a.m. locally. Cook says the foundation plans to broadcast the funeral on a jumbotron and the public is welcome.
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