BEN HILL COUNTY SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR VETERANS MEMORIAL
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Listing Details
Type of Memorial: Bas-Reliefs
Year Dedicated: 1940
Access: Public
Wars Commemorated: SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR
Photograph By: MIKE STROUD
Submitted By: COURTESY OF HMdb.org
DEDICATED TO THE VETERANS OF 1898-1902. “YOU TRIUMPHED OVER OBSTACLES WHICH WOULD HAVE OVERCOME MEN LESS BRAVE AND DETERMINED”. PRESIDENT MCKINLEY
THE IMAGE OF THE SOLDIER IS CALLED THE HIKER. VETERANS OF THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR CALLED THEMSELVES HIKERS IN THE SAME WAY THE WORLD WAR I VETS WERE CALLED DOUGHBOYS AND WORLD WAR II VETS WERE CALLED G.I. JOES.
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