Memorial Surprise
Here’s the town hall, with a large lawn and the obligatory major monument to the war of northern aggression out front:
On that large lawn is an impressive, newer-fangled war memorial, seen walking toward it and then facing into it:
Besides the main memorial at the back, the perimeter is line with granite benches, each for a war or conflict and apparently sponsored by some person or group, interspersed with some black monuments like this one:
That’s the most distinctive, war-specific of the black stones. Mostly they are generically “hooray for the VFW,” “in memory of the disabled,” that sort of thing.
Each of the benches represent a conflict. You expect some, like:
Unlike the Spanish Inquisition, naturally you’d expect World War II and the War of 1812, not to mention many others. Around here it’s no surprise at all to see this:
This was where it was at, after all. In Halifax alone there’s a stone marker on White Island, commemorating the start of King Philip’s War (or whatever it says exactly; it’s been forever since I read it), and there’s a memorial on Thompson Street, route 105, where the Thompson homestead was destroyed. So yeah, King Philip’s War fits.
But this made us do a double-take:
A memorial to the Texas Revolution? In Middleborough, Massachusetts? One of these things is not like the others. Must have been a family connection or something.
Not that it isn’t cool, but what a surprise.
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