High Point Veterans' Memorial
High Point, Guilford County, North Carolina
Marker Inscription
THIS MEMORIAL IS DEDICATED TO THE / MEMORY AND HONOR OF THOSE WHO HAVE SERVED BRAVELY IN OUR ARMED FORCES IN BOTH TIMES OF WAR AND IN TIMES OF PIECE MAY 30, 2005
The Story
In the Piedmont city of High Point, North Carolina — a community long defined by its furniture industry — this memorial was dedicated on Memorial Day 2005 to honor the men and women who have worn the nation's uniform. Rather than marking a single battle, it gathers the whole sweep of American military service, in wartime and in peacetime alike, into one place of remembrance. Community memorials like this one carry forward a civic tradition of gathering neighbors to reckon with the cost of service.
Why it matters
Local veterans' memorials translate national sacrifice into something a town can gather around, keeping the duty and cost of military service present in the everyday American landscape.
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