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This is the Centennial Flag Pole in Thermopolis Wyoming.  While not discernable here, the plates at the base depict scenes from Wyoming...

allegorical monuments will be going in, in Cheyenne. The Capitol prior to reconstruction commencing. They will not, however, be tople...

A Blue Star Memorial Highway Memorial marker outside of Cheyenne, Wyoming.

I've posted on Pathfinder Dam elsewhere , so I didn't take an entire series of photos here.   But this is the first time I've...

Lex Anteinternet: Martin Luther King Jr. Assassinated in Memphis. A... : On this day in the pivotal and tragic year of 1968 Martin Luther K...

Today In Wyoming's History: The City of Casper ponders closing Fort Casper Mus... :  I've photographed Ft. Caspar a zillion times, b...

This town park in the small Wyoming town of Ft. Laramie (just outside of the Ft. Laramie National Historic Site ) serves as an all wars ...

Lex Anteinternet: Persistent Myths XIV: The Korean War Edition :  The Korean War, we were poorly armed with antiquated stuff, edition. ...

Lex Anteinternet: Veterarns Day 2017 (Did you get it off?) : Veterans Day remains November 11, of course, but this year a lot of agencies an...

Lex Anteinternet: Veterarns Day 2017 (Did you get it off?) : Veterans Day remains November 11, of course, but this year a lot of agencies an...

Roads to the Great War: An Invitation to Roads to the Great War Readers : In you can't attend and would like to stream the event, here...

Lex Anteinternet: The first US Army ground casualties of World War O... :   All three men were serving in the 16th Infantry Regiment, 1s...

Lex Anteinternet: The Battle of Beersheba (Be'er Sheva, בְּאֵר שֶׁבַ... : Today in the centennial of one of the most dramatic events of ...

Roads to the Great War: "A Soldier's Journey" Explored with U.S. WWI Memor... : By Patrick Gregory The design for America’s...

Roads to the Great War: Why Is France's Battle of the Marne Monument at Mo... : The National Monument to the Right; the Chateau on the L...

Roads to the Great War: The Centennial at the Grass Roots: Finding WWI in ... : By James Patton The Axtell Doughboy Axtell, Kansas, ...

Lex Anteinternet: Is anyone else here watching the Ken Burns Vietnam... : I have been, and I'll post my views on it when it is done, but...

Not every memorial featured here is attractive. That's not the point of the blog.  Here's one such example.  The Ira W. Brannan M...

Lex Anteinternet: The plank in our own eye. Considering the memoria... : Why do you observe the splinter in your brother's eye and nev...

 Memorials at the Sundance Wyoming Rest Stop. I usually don't put a bunch of memorials, even at one single spot, in one single po...

Lex Anteinternet: Lex Anteinternet: "The Confederate Monuments and C... : When I posted this last week I didn't think we'd see ...

Lex Anteinternet: The Confederate Monuments and Contemporary Strife.... :     The Virginia Memorial at Gettysburg .  This impressive memor...

An American Legion flagpole in the St. John's Ukrainian Catholic Church Cemetery outside of Belfield, North Dakota.

A lot of history in this region of Montana, and in the adjoining part of Wyoming.

Memorial on Interstate 25 to Wyoming Highway Patrolman Chris S. Logsdon, who lost his life responding on October 13, 1998 to a report of...

Holscher's Hub: Memorial Day at Coor's Field :