施拉克在得克萨斯陆军中心军邮局被枪击，7月18日死于胡德堡基地医院。
Mark was on an airplane when he wrote it, leaving Oregon for his army post on the eastern seaboard. In simple, transparent words, he put his heart on paper, and mailed it off to me.马克是在飞机上写的，他正离开俄勒冈州到东海岸担仟军职简单坦诚的文字，他把自己的心付诸纸上，然后寄给我。
America, in return, was responsible for the statue's base and pedestal, to be constructed within the existing walls of Fort Wood, an army post on what was then known as Bedloe's Island.美国作为回报要在伍德堡--当时是贝德罗岛的一个哨所--存有的墙里面负责修建雕塑的地基和基座。
