This area behind the Library shows great promise. The monuments representing each of our armed forces, placed on a small hill above a pond where there is a beautiful high water shower--across from which tablets of granite are placed and after year one are inscribed with about 30 service members, living and deceased and veteran and active. It's an extremely nice thing that if you lived in Leander when you served or if you live here currently you can be inscribed at no cost and in that way be remembered for all time. The form is available, along with the qualifications and the instructions online. I'm in the process of getting Mr. W's documentation together to submit.
The ceremony was very nice -mainly honoring an incredible Veteran who survived Pearl Harbor. It was my honor to shake his hand and thank him for his service after the presentations and while a huge birthday cake honoring the 100th Birthday of the USMC -was served to all.
It was small, but definitely more people came then planned and the future looks bright here. A couple of things we discussed with the mayor are that the waterfall although beautiful blocked a lot of the words delivered during the ceremony so they either need a larger volume microphone or to Cut off for reduce the power of the waterfall when people are speaking. Next year they're going to need a lot more chairs... based on the volume of people that were there this year with no seats! I read that there is one woman who's going to put together a 5K run and hopefully there will be some semblance of the parade. There were less than a handful of the antique cars so we've got to get the word out there because I know there are a lot of car aficionados in our area that would probably love to show off their hobby. Good job City of Leander !!! Looking forward to continuing to contribute to the veterans Park through our monthly water bill. Hopefully everybody will consider it as it's a great opportunity to honor those that allow us to observe and live our freedom daily. read more