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Memorial Concept
(click picture below for larger
version)
 Richfield Artist Travis Gorshe
is the designer of the Honoring All Veterans Memorial.
Gorshe envisions the following for the memorial...
All branches of United States
Military will be honored by concrete and granite columns that are 12 feet
high and curve in towards the focal point in the center of the Memorial. One
column will be placed on the north side, one on the south, two on the east
and two on the west. Between the east and west columns will be a glass oval
two feet in diameter that is cut diamond-style on the inside and flat on the
outside with a crystal dropped in the center to reflect a source of light at
sunrise and sunset. This reflection of light represents our honoring of our
Veterans with full days of remembrance.
Outside of the east and west columns will be granite tablets six feet
high and three feet wide. Each of these tablets will hold 100-120
names. At the center of the memorial will be a bronze sculpture of
Charles Lindberg embedded in a 10-ton taconite
rock from northern Minnesota.
To view pictures of the
rock, click here.
CLICK ON THE THUMBNAILS BELOW FOR DIFFERENT ANGLES AND
PHASES (L to R: Phase 1, Phase 1-above, Phase 2, Phase 2-side). The memorial will be
located on the west side of Veterans Memorial Park
at 64th and Portland Ave, just north of the Richfield American Legion.
Click on the thumbnail below (right) to view the aerial site map.
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 The
concept was originally brought to the Richfield Arts Commission, who helped drive
the effort to form the Richfield Veterans Memorial Task Force, which became the
non-profit group, Honoring All Veterans Memorial, Inc.
For more information about the Richfield Arts Commission, click on the logo
at left.
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