An eternal flame is a symbol to remember someone important, a specific event or a group of brave and noble people.
Examples include the following:
- The Bible commands that "The fire shall ever be burning upon the altar; it shall never go out", regarding the altar of the Tabernacle. (Leviticus 6:13, KJV)
- Arc de Triomphe in Paris, which has burned continuously since 1921, in memory of all who died in World War I;
- The square in downtown Decatur, Georgia, for the Korean War, World War II and the Vietnam War;
- King Center in Atlanta, Georgia for Martin Luther King;
- Rabin Square, Tel Aviv, Israel for assassinated Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin;
- The John F. Kennedy Eternal Flame, in Arlington National Cemetery;
- The Pont de l’Alma Tunnel in Paris for Diana, Princess of Wales;
- Shanksville, Pennsylvania to honor those aboard flight 93 on 9-11;
- Ground Zero, New York and Honolulu, Hawaii to honor victims of 9-11.
- Madonna del Ghisallo, for all cyclists who have died.
- The Olympic Flame is a kind of eternal flame which is kept lit throughout the Olympic Games.
- Atop the Prayer Tower on the campus of ORU, which represents the baptism of the Holy Spirit
Eternal Flame is also a single released by The Bangles in 1989, and covered by Atomic Kitten in 2001.
