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Posted: 8/14/2007 5:57:22 AM EDT
I drive by here every time I go to the range, and every time I wish I had my camera to take a pic of the monument...it's this huge eagle with a bayoneted M1 Garand and a US flag.
The little thoroughfare in Silvis has earned the name with honor and with the blood of eight boys, all of Mexican descent, who gave their tragically young lives on fields of combat for a country they felt was well worth dying for.They truly died heroes, each of them. Hero Street, U.S.A. This doesn't do it justice (before being installed on the base):  
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Posted: 8/14/2007 3:09:36 PM EDT
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