24-05-2025
Vietnam veterans raise money for statue in Davenport Veterans Memorial Park
Quad City area veterans are raising money to build a statue to honor Vietnam veterans at the Davenport Veterans Memorial Park.
On Friday, Chapter 776 of the Vietnam Veterans of America took donations outside Hy-Vee 53rd and Utica Ridge Road. The group wants to raise $10,000.
The veterans want to represent how they were perceived with such negativity when they came back home from the war.
The statue will depict a soldier carrying another soldier on his back, with the title 'No One Left Behind.'
'The Veterans Memorial Park is a fantastic place to go, just to pause and reflect. Then for us (veterans,) we can walk over when we have the statue in place, We can see a pride in the fact that we served, we were there and after we came home and having not been received real well, have been able to rise above that,' said Rod Kjersten, Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 776 vice president elect.
The group will be outside the Hy-Vee store again from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday.
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