Sugar Land Veterans Memorial - Sugar Land, TX - Non-Specific Veteran Memorials on Waymarking.com

This unique monument, located on a peninsula, honors local residents who lost their lives while serving in the Armed Forces.

The City of Sugar Land unveiled the first of the four memorials during the 2010 Memorial Day ceremony - flags representing each branch of service. A second project, facilitated by the Legacy Foundation, was completed in 2013 and features a stunning walk-through obelisk honoring the branches of the military. The donation of the design and construction of this feature was made possible by the Tilt-Up Concrete Association and more than 10 companies who donated their time, talent and services to the memorial project, including Powers Brown Architecture; E.E. Reed Construction, L.P.; Pinnacle Structural Engineers; TAS Commercial Concrete; Big 4 Erectors, L.P.; CEMEX; CMC Construction Services; CMC Rebar; WhiteCap Construction Supply; Nox-Crete Products Group; Meadow Burke; General Technologies; Ward Getz Associates; Gorrondona & Associates; Performance Electric; Trinity Expanded Shale & Clay; Houston Sawing and Drilling, and Nawkaw Corporation. The final value of their donations totaled over $300,000 and a ribbon cutting was held on September 30, 2013.

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The exterior of the oblisk has the four branches of the armed forces and the year they were established, one on each side, and a medallion of each branches seal set in the ground. The interior has the names and date of local fallen service members, by branch - to include the Coast Guard. (Which has no names)

The oblisk is constructed with open joints in the walls and the top is open allowing sunlight to fill the interior.

Type of Memorial: Multi-War Memorial Wars mentioned (Multi-war only): Although no specific conflicts are listed, I found information that shows that one Veteran was in the Korean Conflict and the others were involved in different missions in the Gulf War and Afganistan. Several died in non-combat incidents. In Honor Of: Residents of Sugar Land who gave the ultimate sacrafice while serving Marker Text: Exterior: (each wall has a seperate branch) USMC 1775 NAVY 1775 USAF 1947 ARMY 1775 Interior: USMC LCPL GARRETT WILLIAM GAMBLE 03-11-2010 CAPT STEPHEN SPENCER MCDONALD 09-19-1997 PVT GONZALO TREJO FUCHUCA 09-14-1950 NAVY LT JENTSO JAMES HWANG 07-07-2011 SA ROBERT DOUGLAS MACRUM 09-12-2005 PO3 GRANT CORDELL DEMARS 07-17-1983 PO2 JAMES PATRICK BRENTS 09-23-2007 PO3 PAUL GUIEB MONTEALEGRE 12-03-1994 USAF SRA MARCO ANTONIO AVILA 12-01-2003 AB REUEL SIN REMOLONA JR 08-22-2000 ARMY MAJ EVANS ALEXANDER HANSON 11-22-2013 CPL DAN HONG NGUYEN 05-08-2007 SPC PAUL THEODORE KLEPFER 01-18-1981 SGT KERRY LYNN BROWN II 09-16-2014 SGT ALVIN EARL PHILLIPS II 08-24-2012 PFC JOSEPH GRAHAM HARRIS 05-03-2007 USCG (NONE) Date of dedication: September 30, 2013 Who Put it Here?: The Tilt-Up Concrete Association donated the memorial through the Sugar Land Legacy Foundation Description of Memorial: "The memorial features an obelisk recognizing the branches of the military. After walking through a symbolic entryway and crossing a bridge to a peninsula, visitors are able to walk within the obelisk and experience rays of sunlight reflecting through a vertical opening." Houston Chronicle - Wednesday October 9, 2013

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