Some Gave All: December 2011

Monday, December 19, 2011

United States Postal Service Veterans Memorial, Casper Wyoming

This is a memorial to those who have served in the military, staring in the 1960s, and who were employed by the United States Post Office in Casper Wyoming.

The memorial does not go back prior to the Vietnam War. if it did, many more names would be added.

Monday, December 12, 2011

Johnson County Wyoming All Wars Memorial

The memorial to the dead of all wars in Johnson County, Wyoming. Located on the corner near the Courthouse.

Batte of Red Buttes Monument

Monument to the Battle of Red Buttes, Wyoming. The exact location of this 1865 battle is not known, nor is the location of the mass grave that was dug for the Army detail that was killed during it. The monument's location, like that of a cemetery that features tombstones for the lost soldiers, is only approximate.

Sunday, December 11, 2011

Little Big Horn Battlefield

This thread at the Society of the Military Horse website features some photos I took a while back at the Little Big Horn Battlefield.

The site also includes a National Cemetery.

Some Gave All

Some Gave All is one of a series of our blogs which are basically photographic in nature. The main blog, the "hub", is Holscher's Hub, which is a general photo site. The general blog that we have that receives the most viewing attention is Lex Anteinternet, which started off, and which also remains, a blog for the study of historical topics of the 1890-1920 time frame, but which also deals with about everything else. Our daily Wyoming history blog is Today In Wyoming's History.

We also have four specific photograph blogs with dedicated topics, those being Churches of the West, Courthouses of the West, Railhead and Painted Bricks. Those blogs are dedicated to photographs of the topics their title indicates (more or less). This blog, while a history minded one, fits into the latter category. It depicts monuments, mostly war memorials, that we've run across in our travels.

Many of these photos, indeed probably all of them, were taken as the opportunity arose. It'd be rare here to find a photo in which we had gone out specifically to photograph the memorial. Because of that, they will not have a professional quality, as we have to take the monument, including the light, weather, and other conditions, as we find them. Still, that serves the purpose, which is to record monuments and memorials that otherwise would likely be missed by most people.