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English: Obelisk marking the plot of World War I general and senator, Lawrence Tyson (1861–1929), his wife, Bettie Humes McGhee, and their son, pilot Charles McGhee Tyson (1889–1918), the latter killed after his plane was shot down over the North Sea while patrolling for submarines. Charles McGhee Tyson is the namesake of Knoxville's McGhee Tyson Airport. An inscription on the obelisk reads:

BETTER DEATH BY THE SWORD FOR SOME HIGH, UNSELFISH PURPOSE,
THAN TO LIVE OUT A LIFE OF EASE SAFE AND CLOISTERED ALL THY DAYS.
TO LIVE FOR THINE OWN ENDS IS HUMAN; TO DIE FOR SOME GREAT CAUSE

FOR LIBERTY OR FOR ANOTHER'S GOOD - THAT IS GOD-LIKE.
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