Veterans memorial in Gordon honours service and sacrifice
Summarised from 2 outlets · Updated 13 Oct, 01:32 · Archive
A veterans memorial in Gordon, Nebraska features a mounted AH-1 Cobra helicopter and honours the state's Medal of Honor recipients.
A veterans memorial in Gordon, Nebraska displays a mounted AH-1 Cobra helicopter alongside statues honouring military service. Life-size bronze figures representing each branch of the military stand at the memorial's corners. The site also lists Nebraska's 74 Congressional Medal of Honor recipients and the names of soldiers from Sheridan County who died in war.
The project began with members of Post 34 in Gordon, who sourced and mounted the AH-1 Cobra helicopter. Business owner Casey Walton later took over the initiative with help from his son-in-law and local volunteers. The centrepiece is a nine-foot statue donated by the Sons of the American Legion, Detachment of Nebraska, depicting a Vietnam-era soldier carrying another soldier to represent 'no soldier left behind'.
Other features include an eagle with a 13-and-a-half-foot wingspan, previously displayed at Chadron State College, and a bell tower. Local artists restored the eagle to its original fiberglass finish. The bell came from a schoolhouse that burned down in the 1920s and was donated to the memorial. Large rocks came from a quarry in Hill City, South Dakota.
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- Veterans memorial in Gordon honors service members, Medal of Honor recipientsA veterans memorial in Gordon features a mounted AH-1 Cobra helicopter, statues depicting each branch of the military and the names of Nebraska’s 74 Congressional Medal of Honor recipients.WOWT · 13 Oct, 01:05
- Veterans memorial in Gordon honors service members, Medal of Honor recipientsA veterans memorial in Gordon features a mounted AH-1 Cobra helicopter, statues depicting each branch of the military and the names of Nebraska’s 74 Congressional Medal of Honor recipients.1011Now · 13 Oct, 01:05
In this story: Gordon · Nebraska · Casey Walton · Post 34 · Sons of the American Legion · Sheridan County
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