Seasons Greetings 2024 III

For this third installment of this years deviations I decided to "stay" in Delaware.

The Atlantic coast is superb for its vistas and views, these just along the Atlantic Ocean at The Indian River Outlet (pics 1&2)and just a bit further north near Broadkill (pic 3.)

I hope that you enjoy them.

Indian River Inlet Bridge

Sunset at Indian River Inlet

Near Broadkill

Next time, on the 4th of January, check back to see what else I can come up with that may interest you. As always, at 9:00 am. 

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 very soon 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,

Seasons Greetings 2024 #2

 Seasons Greetings!!

So, I am a few dollars and a couple of days late with this. Just too much going on.

Any one who has driven Route 1 along the Mid-Atlantic states has probably seen Chief Little Owl greeting all who enter Bethany Beach, Delaware. The Chief is one of 50 such totems carved by Peter Wolf Toth: one in each state.

Surprisingly, the chief is not the only totem in Delaware.

My brother lived in the area and he took me to see another. Unfortunately, I do know the town it is in (if you know, please let me know at the address to the left. )

I have searched and searched and can find no info on this one. As always, if you have info please reach me at the email on the left side of the page.

 

Just a quick aside: many of us have heard or been called, the "low man on the totem pole" but, in fact in Native American culture the low man is actually the image of greatest importance and respect! So there!

BTW, Chief Little Owl is located at the intersection of Route 1 and Route 26 in Bethany and the Maryland totem is not far away in the Inlet at Ocean City.

Apologies, again, for my tardiness!

Next time, on the 30th, check back to see what else I can come up with that may interest you. As always, at 9:00 am. 

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 very soon 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.

Seasons Greetings 2024 #1

This is my first of what will be several, probably 3 or perhaps 4, non-memorial based posts over the holidays.

It does not see right to me to concentrate on the loss of our buddies, known and unknown, at a time that is supposed to be celabratory.

So, in keeping with my past deviations from the norm, as they used to say on Monty Python,

Now for something truly different!

In my travels I frequently run across things that interest me and today, it is old cars. I have always loved these old beauties and couldn't pass up the chance to grab a few shots.

1930 ford

1931 Ford

1930 Chevy

Found all of these in Arizona and they are actually used as advertising for a company there. 

Next time, on the 23rd, check back to see what else I can come up with that may interest you. As always, at 9:00 am. 

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 very soon 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.

Arizona XL

Arizona, as you know if you follow along, is one of my most visited states because my wife does a lot of business there, so we visit at least yearly if not more often.

The state like most western states is huge which presents obvious problems for me as most of her visits are work is in the southern end of the state.

There are memorials in other parts of the state that are just not within driving distance for me. I have planned trips to these more far reaching areas but events beyond my control have caused those efforts to fail. I will make additional attempts.

Today, I want to return to Eloy, as previously promised, which lies between Tucson and Phoenix just off I-10.

The Eloy Vet Center has an extensive memorial site. You can see previous posts from it here and here.

This lone soldier is highlighted here.

As is my holiday custom, next time on the 18th, and for a couple of posts beyond that I will take a break from featuring memorials and post other pics I hope you will enjoy. This, I think, allows us to stay in touch but more easily enjoy the seasons. It also allows me to reassure myself that I am not a one dimensional photographer. So return, as always at 9:00 am and see what I have found.

To see additional memorials from Arizona, or any other state, please click a state name on the left side of this page. Please note that Canada, Ireland, and Puerto Rico have been added to the list.

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 very soon 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.

Wisconsin XXII

I wonder if Joan has followed along and seen the tremendous impact she has made upon this site and the many, many vets, and others, who frequent it?

For those who don't know, Joan stumbled over this site and sent me photos of a traveling Vietnam War tribute circulating through Wisconsin. Over the months I have posted a number of photos from the exhibit.

Sadly, I have lost contact with Joan and wonder if she is well. Her email address keeps bouncing back as "undeliverable." So, I have no way to reach and thank her, again, for her generous contribution.

Below you can see a few of the others who have added so much to A Means to Heal and I hope you will be moved to join them and do the same.

Today, a few more of the heroes from Wisconsin:

These are pictures of pictures of pictures so they may not be up to the very finest in photographic quality and I will never be able to pay tribute to all of the lost from Wisconsin, or probably anywhere else, but those who pictures I can find will be so honored here.

Next time, on December 13th, we will return to  Arizona, so join me there, as usual, at 9:00 am.

To see memorials from Wisconsin, or any other state, please click a state name on the left side of this page. Please note that Canada, Ireland, and Puerto Rico have been added to the list.

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 very soon 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.

Pennsylvania XLVII

More than 7,000 dead.

More than 1,300 monuments.

Wandering among these, the history, the tragedy, the monumental loss of the deadliest battle of the Civil War, you might never imagine that a memorial to those lost in Vietnam would exist.

You would be mistaken.

Gettysburg College honors the 14 lost to the war, including one Medal of Honor recipient.

Gettysburg is a small college founded in the early 1830's, it currently has a student population of about 2,200. In the very few records I could find then population was not terribly different during the war years.

 

"We leave you our deaths. Give them their meaning

We were young. We have died. Remember us."

                                                                                       Archibald MacLeish

This oft repeated quote from Archibald MacLeish sums up the hopes of the lost.

 

 

The College has said it well, too.