"ABANDON IN PEACE"
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Cape Canaveral Air Force Station stencils the words "ABANDON IN PLACE" on deactivated facilities and structures. Even though it's quite weathered, if you look at this stencil closely, you can see that the word "PLACE" was changed to "PEACE."

 

Plaque on west side of stand
Plaque on west side of stand Zoom
Plaque on south side of stand
Plaque on south side of stand Zoom

There are two plaques on the Complex 34 launch pedestal. They read as follows:

LAUNCH COMPLEX 34
Friday, 27 January 1967
1831 Hours

Dedicated to the living memory of the crew of 
the Apollo 1:

U.S.A.F. Lt. Colonel Virgil I. Grissom
U.S.A.F. Lt. Colonel Edward H. White, II
U.S.N. Lt. Commander Roger B. Chaffee

They gave their lives in service to their country 
in the ongoing exploration of humankind's final 
frontier. Remember them not for how they died 
but for those ideals for which they lived.
IN MEMORY
OF
THOSE WHO MADE THE ULTIMATE SACRIFICE
SO OTHERS COULD REACH FOR THE STARS

AD ASTRA PER ASPERA
(A ROUGH ROAD LEADS TO THE STARS)

GOD SPEED TO THE CREW
OF
APOLLO 1

Stand directly underneath the launch pedestal
Back up to see the launch pedestal
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