Thread: Roadside Memorials

Originally Posted by bongo

This thread made me think of the last scene from "Schindler's List" where the people
he saved and their descendants are putting pebbles on Oskar Schindler's grave....
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In my neighbourhood, the grave of Bon Scott, the founder and original singer of AC/DC.
People pay tribute in different ways I guess....
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Bongo,, when they put us both to rest, they're gonna stash some Pinaud in the box with us.

Colorado local HERO:

This Memorial is located in Colorado. A section of Santa Fe Drive (US Highway)

In Ontario - we have an entire major highway, Highway 401, renamed now, "The Highway of Heroes", and each of our soldiers who has fallen for us, is welcomed back along it for hundreds of kilometres, and everyone comes out to pay their respects:

In New mexico markers are left for those who perish along roadways. Usually a Cross or maybe something else at the point where the tragedy occurred. family members or friends or an association maintain them and folks will place objects there.

As you travel along the interstate it's amazing how many of these you see.

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

In New mexico markers are left for those who perish along roadways. Usually a Cross or maybe something else at the point where the tragedy occurred. family members or friends or an association maintain them and folks will place objects there.

As you travel along the interstate it's amazing how many of these you see.

Same down here,,, actually the State puts a round marker with the victim's name on it at the crash site.

This bridge marker is near Nevada City California. This is a personal one for me. U.S.Army Captain John Seeley was a Chinook pilot on a bad day in June of 1966 in Vietnam. I had flown several missions with him and worked several LZ's and PZ's as a pathfinder on missions he was a part of. An NVA bunker system had been cleared and torn out by Infantry. The PZ was tight.
The next morning after the dust had settled metal corrugated panels, moss covered and heavy were loaded into the Chinook, I should say overloaded to the extreme, and as the Chinook took some height it dropped nose first into the jungle and then caught fire. The co-pilot and crew got out but the pilot, Captain Seeley, was pinned in. His legs had moved under the front of his seat on impact and he was pushed into the control panel. There was nothing anyone could do, despite heroic efforts, to free him and the fire finally took him. Terrible day, still haunts me. RIP John.

But he is not forgotten,,,,,

Are you aware of this Bob?

Capt John Stuart Seeley (1932 - 1966) - Find A Grave Memorial

I have John thank you. For many years I visited Golden Gate cemetery on Memorial Day.

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

In New mexico markers are left for those who perish along roadways. Usually a Cross or maybe something else at the point where the tragedy occurred. family members or friends or an association maintain them and folks will place objects there.

As you travel along the interstate it's amazing how many of these you see.

I never saw these until I moved to South Texas in the mid '70s. They are everywhere now.