Some Gave All: June 2015

Thursday, June 18, 2015

A Bicentennial. Waterloo

Two hundred years ago.

"Scotland Forever"

A coalition of European nations puts a stop to Napoleonism at the cost of 24,000 allied lives and 14,000 French lives.

Saturday, June 6, 2015

I-25 Wyoming Vietnam Veterans Welcome Home Highway

Just recently Interstate Highway 25 in Wyoming has been designated the Wyoming Vietnam Veterans Welcome Home Higway. This has been marked by signs, and also here noted on the overhead highway sign. On the date this photo was taken, a parade for Vietnam veterans was being held in nearby Casper.

Oregon Trail Marker, Green River Wyoming.

This is the memorial to pioneers in Green River Wyoming, which was one of the localities which a branch of the Oregon Trail went through. This marker is on the grounds of the courthouse in Green River.

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.