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The Garden of Sacrifice and Healing is an outgrowth of the popular Freedom Medallion project. The Garden would be a public demonstration of the sentiments felt by Vietnam Veterans toward returning Veterans of current wars and conflicts, that “Never again will one generation of veterans abandon another”. May their honorable service and sacrifice never be forgotten.
There will be a sculpture set in the Garden to pay homage to the permanently disabled veteran. Two other sculptures will flank the disabled veteran's sculpture, one pays tribute to the recipients of the Purple Heart and the other remembers the veterans listed as POW/MIA.
To see an artist's rendering of the Garden, go to:
The SACRIFICE REMEMBERED FOUNDATION
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"I now know why men who have been to war yearn to reunite. Not to tell stories or look at old pictures. Not to laugh or weep. Comrades gather because they long to be with the men who once acted at their best; men who suffered and sacrificed, who were stripped of their humanity. I did not pick these men. They were delivered by fate and the military. But I know them in a way I know no other men. I have never given anyone such trust. They were willing to guard something more precious than my life. They would have carried my reputation, the memory of me. It was part of the bargain we all made, the reason we were so willing to die for one another. As long as I have memory, I will think of them all, every day. I am sure that when I leave this world, my last thought will be of my family and my comrades. Such good men."
Quoted from "These Good Men" by Michael Norman
This book is out of print, but some copies are available here: Amazon
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