So, finally the twice promised visit to North Carolina.
While searching through files of photos, I stumbled across a photo from a place called Blowing Rock.
Blowing Rock lies about an hour and 40 minutes southwest of Mt. Airy.
The memorial, like so many, honors those from several wars. This is very common as many places simply cannot afford to build memorials to every military action we end up engaged in.
Perhaps there is a lesson there.
Blowing Rock according to the 2020 census has a population of less than 1400 people. So, kudos to them for choosing to allocate funds to honor their heroes.
Below are the two from 'Nam.
Next time, on the 20th of February, we will return to Wisconsin, so join me there, as usual, at 9:00am.
To see Vietnam memorials from any state and Canada, Ireland, and Puerto Rico click on the individual names on the left side of this page.
If you are following along at all, you will have seen that a number of you, like Joan from Wisconsin, Tony from Texas, Mike from Maryland, Ron from Florida, Tim from Virginia and Molly from Florida, Colleen from Pennsylvania, and Elli from Maryland, among others, have responded to my request to send me memorials you have seen in your area or where you may have traveled. I even got one from Ireland! These submissions help expand the knowledge of how we have remembered the men and women who served or were lost in 'Nam and you help to honor them. If you have any such photos, I would love to see them. Please send them along to the email at the left and I will gladly share them here. Thanks, once again, to all who have contributed.