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    4.8 (6 reviews)

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    1 month ago

    Great shade options, fun park! Everyone we meet there is normal and nice as well. We will be back

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    Hawkshaw Lagoon Memorial Park - View of the Pensacola Bay Bridge from the Memorial  08-17-2022

    Hawkshaw Lagoon Memorial Park

    4.0(3 reviews)
    5.3 mi

    Hawkshaw Lagoon Memorial Park, completed in 1996, is the only National Memorial for Missing…read moreChildren. You walk across the pedestrian bridge which is over part of the lagoon. On the observation deck is a bronze statue called "The Sanctuary" created by Sam Nettles. On the plaque: "The Sanctuary" is both a shelter and a memorial. The arms and hands form a shelter and represent protection, our gift to our children. The shelter also forms a memorial in which resides a sacred spiritualism that is universal and primal. / In the family grouping, the child completes the circle, making the couple a family. The parents focus on their child and in turn, the child focuses its love and trust on the parents. This simple exchange is one of the essential truths of life. We all love our children and want to protect them. / Let us hope that we can begin to try to understand and appreciate that which we memorialize - the families, parents, and friends of lost and missing children. The view is serene and overlooks Pensacola Bay. You can get a good view of the Pensacola Bay Bridge from here. Something else to see nearby - just across Bayfront Parkway is Veterans Memorial Park. It's really worth walking across the street to see. Be careful crossing the busy street because cars may not stop even though there is a marked pedestrian walkway. Chances are you've parked over at the memorial and have walked here since there's really no parking where this memorial is.

    The missing children's memorial is beautiful. It is a touching memorial that I still think about…read moreoccasionally out of the blue, and we visited over ten years ago. Perhaps most memorable, aside from the statue, was the fact that there were happy birthday balloons tied to the fence the day we went. This is an important and well thought out memorial, and I hope it gets the recognition it deserves.

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