Rutland County Vietnam Veteran's Memorial

Rutland, VT - My wife and I were driving through Rutland today and she noticed this monument so we turned around and I got these photos.


In 1981 a Vietnam Veteran named John Reno; he suffered from depression and flashbacks. He started this memorial as a way to work through his problems. Unfortunately, he died in a boating accident 1982. This piece of stone lay in a Castleton gravel pit until John Bergeron, another Vietnam Vet went looking for the stone in 1995. He continued carving the stone working from John Reno's concept. This memorial was dedicated on Memorial Day 2000, nine years ago today. (Info from sign at the memorial).


Close up of the face showing the detail.


The upper body.


Someone had left roses earlier in the day.

VETERAN'S TRIBUTE

I decided to post some of my photos, one from each war. I don't think I have anything from the Korean War, I guess they don't call it the "Forgotten War" for nothing.

Vietnam Monument - Winsted, CT



Iwo Jima Monument - Newington, CT



WW I Doughboy - Hopkinton, MA



Civil War Soldier - Brooklyn, CT



Revolutionary War Soldiers - New Haven, CT