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American Veterans Memorial
Ash Flat is proud to be the home of a first class veterans memorial. Additional photos and history of the memorial. This memorial is dedicated to the men and women who have selflessly served our country and her people in times of need. Click here to locate a veteran's brick.
THE AMERICAN VETERAN By Leonard H. Holden, Jr. He was there at Lexington And at Concord He fired the “shot heard around the world” He crossed the Delaware And fought at Trenton and Princeton He defended the fort at Ticonderoga And survived the winter at Valley Forge He was there at the surrender at Yorktown
He was aboard the Essex The Constitution at the battle of Nova Scotia He was there when the British marched on Washington At the battle for Baltimore The bombardment of Ft. McHenry And the British defeat at New Orleans
He was at Fort Sumter, Charleston Harbor At Pea Ridge, Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, Vicksburg He fought and died at Gettysburg The battle for Chattanooga and The march across Georgia He was there when it ended The Appomattox Court House
He was with the Rough Riders at San Juan Hill At Manila Bay And the surrender at Santiago
He was at the battle at Champagne, Verdun and the Somme At Argonne Forest The battlefields of the Western Front
He was at Pearl Harbor With Doolittle over Tokyo The battle of the Coral Sea, The Bataan Peninsula, and the defeat on the island of Corregidor He was at the battle at Midway, Guadalcanal He flew over Berlin and landed at Palermo And Anzeo
He died at Normandy and marched to Germany Liberated Paris and fought the Battle of the Bulge He landed on Iwo Jima, Okinawa And flew on the B-29 Enola Gay over Hiroshima He was there, Uijonngbu-Seoul Valley He fought at the Pusan Perimeter The Beachhead at Inchon Pyongyang and the Yalu River He endured at the Chosin Reservoir At Bloody Ridge, Heartbreak Ridge He fought to the top of Old Baldy, Pork Chop Hill And held the line at the 38th parallel
He was at Da Nang Air Base Rolling Thunder, bombing of Ho Chi Minh Trail Landed at China Beach Chu Lai assault and the Battle of Ia Drang Valley He was on the Inland Waterways Served on the Navy’s Swift Boats Patrolled the Mekong Delta He was at the Battle of Dak To The battle for Saigon
He was at Kuwait City Defended against incoming Scud Missiles Advanced on Baghdad Fought at the battle for Fallujah Kirkurk
He will defend Freedom wherever it is threatened The American Veteran
Leonard H. Holden, Jr. Oct. 2008
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