Michigan XIII

We have visited Veterans Memorial Pointe, near Troy, before and as promised I will share some additional features of this lovely tribute.

Throughout the park there are any number of these small, nameless, tributes to our various involvements over the years.

Just beyond the bridge lies the memorial to our brothers and sisters who were lost in Vietnam.

 

Just below a now small tree is a plaque which is nameless, but perhaps the iconic image and sentiments here are, in fact, enough.

Detail from above

There are a number of other details here that I will share soon.

Later this week please return here for a brief Veterans Day salute at 11am on Saturday.

If you are following along at all, you will have seen that a number of you have responded to my request to send me memorials you have seen in your area or where you may have traveled. 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.

Michigan XII

On my last trip to Michigan, I ran across this elaborate and beautiful memorial. 

It honors not just our brothers and sisters from Nam, but many from many wars. This, as I have often remarked, is very often the case. Many, many places just cannot afford to build separate memorials to every war. What that says about how many wars we end up involved in, I'll leave to you.

Rochester Hills lies about 10 miles north of Troy and on the corner of Avon and S. Livernois Roads is the memorial. Called Veterans Memorial Pointe it sits at this busy intersection were hundreds, if not thousands, of cars pass each day.

The small park, home to part of the Clinton River, is filled with benches, markers and pavers honoring many.

Thankfully there are a number of parking spaces making access far easier than at some sites I have visited.

There is lots more here but I will leave that for another time.

Next time, on the 2nd of August, we will return to New Mexico, so meet me there, as always, at 9:00am.

To see additional memorials from Michigan, 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.