GLIDDEN LIBERTY ROCK VETERANS MEMORIAL SIDE B
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Listing Details
Type of Memorial: Veterans Memorial Rock
Year Dedicated: 2021
Access: Public
Wars Commemorated: VIETNAM WAR
Photograph By: COSMOS MARINER
Submitted By: COURTESY OF HMdb.org
Comments: RAY "BUBBA" SORENSEN II
Depictions of Joseph Glidden and Donald Sparks. The town’s namesake, Joseph Glidden, was from DeKalb, Illinois, and was an inventor of a type of barbed wire that dramatically changed the settlement of the U.S. plains. Sparks was a casualty of the Vietnam War who for years was listed as missing in action after an ambush by the enemy on June 17, 1969. Sparks grew up on a farm southwest of Glidden. “I thought barbed wire and prisoner of war matched up pretty well,” Sorensen said.
SEE ALSO-GLIDDEN LIBERTY ROCK VETERANS MEMORIAL
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