There
are so many interesting finds as one travels the United States. This is one of
them. My friends, John and Sharon Abert, currently of Cherokee Village,
Arkansas (soon to be full-time road warriors and nomads) brought me to this
park in a small rural town, Ash Flat, Arkansas. In this park is one of the
nicest small community war memorials I've seen in my travels.
These
are only a few photos of the site here, but the memorial was very well done. It represented
the five U.S. military services and the men, women and service dogs who died
and those who were wounded during numerous military campaigns including WWII,
Korea, Vietnam, the first Gulf War, the Iraq and the Afghanistan wars.
As a veteran of the Vietnam era, while I can't say I enjoy visiting memorials to all my fallen and injured brothers and sisters at arms, I do feel it's almost a duty to show my respect to them. I was very impressed by this memorial. It was very well done and very respectful, especially for a very small rural town. But, then again, small towns are often better able to express their respect in this manner simply because they are small and the loss of individuals in service to their country is a much more personal event. Most people in these towns know or certainly are closer to everyone in town than are those in larger or very large cities.
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