Michigan XIV

I keep getting drawn back to the memorial in Mt. Pleasant. I have visited here before and you can check out those posts here, and here.

One of the two main attractions here is the statue of one solder comforting another: called War Cry it is seen below.

As with most memorials there are other features as well and, today, here are a few of them.

First, I will note that like so many other memorials to Vietnam, this one includes remembrances of veterans from other times remembering our goal:  "never again will one generation of veterans abandon another." This one seems to have a GWOT helmet upon what is known as a Field Cross.

Reminders throughout the site recall our efforts and sacrifices and ask others to never forget.

So, if ever in Mt. Pleasant take some time to check out this site. If you check the posts from here, you can see that there is much to visit. It is located in Island Park.

Next time, on the 26th, we will return to Mississippi to honor a few more faces, so join me there, as usual, at 9:00 am.

To see additional memorials from Michigan, or any other state, please click on a state name on the left side of this page. Please note that Canada, Ireland, and Puerto Rico have been added to the list as I have found memorials in these places, too.

As is now my custom,  I will ask anyone who has pictures of Vietnam memorials not shown here, to send then to me and I will include them (giving you full credit.) Any number of you have added knowledge and honor to this site by doing just that. It is always appreciated and makes this effort better, more completed. Thanks to those who have contributed and to anyone who will do so now or in the future.

Michigan V

Michigan, like some others I am finding, has at least two major Vietnam Memorials. This one located in Island Park, in Mt. Pleasant, was built by vets. Completed in several stages, it now includes a wall of names of those KIA/MIA, a number of flags and the aforementioned statue,"War Cry." The park and the memorial sit on the Chippewa River and the first completed component of the site was a bridge connecting the site to the ball fields on the other side of the river. The other parts of the memorial were added over time.

Listed on the wall are the 2654 KIA/MIAs from Michigan. One of the things that is unique (at least this far) is that both Michigan sites list all the names of those lost or unaccounted for at this time.

The statue is the same one mentioned earlier where I met a vet "giving my brother a drink" which led to the visit to and signing of the Jeep he and his "brother" dedicated to all vets. If this is your first visit to this site, scroll back a few posts and you will find this wonderful story.

This memorial was built before the one at the state capitol in Lansing and thus is the "memorial" the one in Lansing is called the Michigan State Vietnam Monument. I will post on that one very soon. It too is a great site.