Veterans Day: Holliston’s memorial
My mother pointed this out to me: telephone poles all over Holliston bear signs memorializing those who’ve died during Operation Iraqi Freedom.
The signs, a temporary memorial that will be up until Sunday, have become a sight all too familiar in town. This is the third time resident and veteran Bobby Blair has created the display to remind passers-by of the human toll of war.
I’ll try to get pictures of this when I’m out in Holliston this weekend for my father’s birthday.
May 21st, 2007 at 1:12 pm
It is now 2007 and as I drive from Ashland to Holliston, the extent of the poles with signs seems to have magnified more than imaginable. It brought tears to my eyes as I drove along, so I had to drive even slower as I read each one on my route. All of them are sad, but most poignant, the youngest men who are posted: 19, 17, 20, 24…. It is so painful.