Wisconsin XV

 I was less than a year into this journey when I visited Wisconsin. Still feeling my way along as to researching, or hunting down and finding appropriate sites to visit.

So it was on this trip. I no longer remember exactly what I was looking for, I'm not sure I had my first GPS at this time, so I really was just stumbling along.

I learned very quickly that if I needed help, firehouses were a good place to ask. Who knows an area better than the men and women who protect it and need to know where to go with as little hesitation and doubt as possible.

I spied a fire house in Brookfield, about 15 miles west of Milwaukee, and requested their assistance.

Not surprisingly, they couldn't have been more accommodating and helpful, even though we never where able to track down what ever it was I was looking for on that day.

However, right on the property there was a memorial. It is not a Vietnam memorial. It is dedicated to all the people who risk their lives caring for the rest of us: Police, all military and first responders, fire men/women and EMS specialist.

So, today, I do something a little different. I will post this memorial here as a thanks to them all and especially the great guys who spent an inordinate amount of time trying to help me on this particular day, 13 years ago.

You'll notice that the POW/MIA flag is prominently features here. Not exactly correctly as it being a National flag, it should be displayed equally

to the Stars and Stripes. This easy to forgive, I guess, as I am constantly amazed that most people don't know/understand this.

Also, as I have said many times, this flag will always represent 'Nam to me as it was created by the wife of a POW from our war. It is perfectly OK and fitting that it has come to represent all POW/MIAs, but it will always scream 'Nam to me. 

All services are honored on the center stone of this memorial, no names, no wars, all.

Next time, on the 23rd, we will revisit Arizona, so join me there, as always, at 9:00am.

To see additional memorials from Wisconsin, or any other state, please click the state name on the left side of this page.

I will ask, as I do at the end of nearly every post now, for anyone who has pictures of Vietnam memorials not seen here to please send them to me. I will give you full photo credit for the pic and any information about it you may know. Check your state, or anywhere you may have visited, from the list at the left, or any place else. Please send them to the email at the left or directly to me at Ldddad@comcast.net. Thanks.