Over 100 people from the community played a role in building Sanford's war memorial. Last year, the town’s Memorial Day parade started & ended there.
SANFORD, Mich. — The road leading to the Sanford Flagpole Monument was closed, washed out by the flood.
Sanford never had a war memorial until Ryan died. More than 100 people from the community played a role in building it, raising money or donating supplies. Last year, the town’s Memorial Day parade started and ended at the monument. The monument featured an underground sprinkler system and a paved walkway. There were seven aluminum flag poles, 35-feet tall, that honored every branch of the military, as well as soldiers who went missing in action or became prisoners of war. An engineer designed the flagpoles to withstand high winds, never thinking they should be concerned with a flood.
“I can take anything,” Kim said. “I lost a son in Iraq. Bring it. But I cannot see that laying in the mud. We can't let this lay in the mud.”Somebody found the giant U.S. flag in the mud. Foley folded it up and handed it to Kim. “I know it's not much but I'd like you to have this,” Foley said. “And I thought to myself, am I being selfish for feeling so sad about this? And then I got to thinking, you know, we did not lose a building. This is more about PTSD and memories and war. It's a place where veterans can go and sit and think about a friend they lost over there or a relative. They can go to that monument and reflect, so it's more of a mental type thing that we lost or mental-healing type place. That’s what we lost. It wasn't a house.
She plans to put that dirty American flag — mud and all — in a permanent display case at the new monument, so people will remember the flood of 2020.
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