Sculpture by Kirk Newman, in Kalamazoo's Bronson Park.

My friend Skip Greene just posted a memory on Facebook from forty years back, when he was part of an Air Force performance group called Tops in Blue. On Bicentennial Day they performed in Minot, North Dakota.

This sculpture was dedicated the same weekend, as part of a larger celebration featuring the Kalamazoo Symphony and a community choir. I was part of that choir; we did patriotic songs, heard speeches by prominent locals, and watched the unveiling of these youngsters.

This was pretty much our view from the bandstand, except the KSO was between us and Newman's sculpture. And it was sunny; I took this photo on a typically-dull November day.

More, perhaps better, pix of this work of art.

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