We’d like to pay tribute to those who have made the ultimate sacrifice for our country with a Memorial Day weekend photo essay. These images were taken at Wesley Bolin Memorial Plaza in Phoenix, Arizona during the Phoenix Tax Day Tea Party on April 15th, 2009. Wesley Bolin Plaza is located in front of the Arizona State Capitol, and there are 23 memorials paying tribute to our lost soldiers. The memorials are dedicated to various conflicts, including World War I & II, the Korean War, Vietnam War and Desert Storm (The Gulf War).
- POW-MIA, U.S. and Arizona flags
- USS Arizona Memorial in Phoenix, AZ
- USS Arizona Memorial Plaque
- Mast from the USS Arizona
- Battle of the Bulge Memorial
- Korean War Memorial
- Korean War Memorial Bell
- POW-MIA, U.S., Arizona flags flying at the Arizona Capitol
- Vietnam War Memorial in Phoenix
- Vietnam Map embeded in the walkway of the Vietnam War Memorial
- Bronze statue at the Vietnam War Memorial “The Fallen Warrior” by Jasper D’Ambrosi
- Vietnam War Memorial granite pillars etched with the names of Arizonans KIA or MIA
- A Vietnam Veteran takes time to remember those who fell
- Another view of “The Fallen Warrior” at the Vietnam War Memorial in Phoenix
- Desert Storm Memorial in Phoenix
- Desert Storm Memorial Plaque
- Arizona Peace Officers Memorial
We invite you to take a stroll through Wesley Bolin Memorial park to see the rest of the memorials in person.
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The Tax Day Tea Party brought several thousand people to Wesley Bolin Memorial Plaza today. It was impossible to get a count of the attendees, as we saw a steady stream of people both arriving and leaving for the two hours that we were at the event. I’m thinking there were ten thousand there easily.
A very large group of people crammed into an area in front of the Capitol Building where politicians, concerned citizens and radio and TV hosts were speaking. It was so crowded in that area that we were never able to actually see who was speaking, so we chose to mill around the crowd and take some photos for your viewing pleasure.
We’ll be writing more about the event itself within the next few days, but I wanted to leave you with the best quotes of the day:
A woman holding a sign in one hand and a cell phone to her ear:
I’m standing in front of the capitol with fifty thousand other people and they all hate Obama.
This one is our favorite:
If I would have known that protesting would be this much fun, I would have done it in the ’60’s instead of starting to protest in my sixties.
Some general crowd shots:
Just some of the many clever and creative signs (we’ll post more later):
We would like to dedicate this one to the exurbanleague.com guys:
I’ll post some more tomorrow, but I’ll leave you with this one. I haven’t decided what is more humorous – seeing “hippies” at the Tea Party, or the camera crew grabbing them out of the crowd and making a fuss over them. I might normally say that they got lost on their way to a Phish concert, but they did have Tea Party signs :
P.S. – If you didn’t already know it, Arizona is a beautiful place:
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