Looking Up To a Hero in Pueblo Colorado
by Priscilla Burgers
Title
Looking Up To a Hero in Pueblo Colorado
Artist
Priscilla Burgers
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
Pueblo, Colorado is the hometown of four Congressional Medal of Honor recipients -- William J. Crawford - Army - WWII; Carl L. Sitter -Marines - Korea; Raymond G. "Jerry" Murphy- Marines- Korea; and Drew D. Dix- Army -Vietnam . The Medal of Honor is the highest military award that can be bestowed upon a member of the United States Armed Forces. Teddy Roosevelt and his son Teddy Roosevelt Jr. both received the Medal, General George Patton said, "I'd sell my immortal soul for that Medal" and President Harry Truman reportedly said, "I would rather have the blue band of the Medal of Honor around my neck than be President."
President Dwight D. Eisenhower upon presenting Raymond G. "Jerry" Murphy with his Medal in 1953 commented, "What is it...something in the water out there in Pueblo? All you guys turn out to be heroes!" In 1993 Colorado Representative Scott McInnis had read into the Congressional Record information about Pueblo and it's recipients of the Medal of Honor. He cited at that time that it was the only city to have this record of four living recipients from the same hometown. Following that declaration in the Congressional Record, the Pueblo City Council adopted the "Home of Heroes" theme.
Since then, Pueblo has continued to show its increased pride in military. It hosted the Congressional Medal of Honor National Convention in September of 2000 and unveiled four sculptures to Crawford, Sitter, Murphy and Dix as well as listing on granite plates the names of ALL Medal of Honor Recipients since Civil War times when the award was first created.
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March 9th, 2014
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Comments (13)
Judy Vincent
Beautiful capture! This will be the “US Military Monuments and Memorials” photo of the day on the USA Photographers group home page for 5/27/18!
Doug Kreuger
Awesome perspective shot, and a grand salute to this multi-storied statue, Excellent work Pricilla! L&F
Carol Lynn Coronios
Nadine & Bob - WOW. Thank you for sharing your family's history of service. Impressive.
Carol Lynn Coronios
Great detail and perfect 'backdrop'. Thank you so much for sharing the description. Interesting that Pueblo has grown four Medal of Honor recipients. V/F
Joe Bledsoe
what a wonderful image and memorial to our soldiers F/V congratulations on your feature in The Gold Standard
Nadine and Bob Johnston
This is a beautiful work of Art, tried sculpture in my teens, gave it up to serve in the Army. That many living is unusual in a place the size of Pueblo. It is even more unusual to have three in one family, in ours, William Osborne, Benjamin Flag, in the Civil War and Jason Dunham the first MOH awarded in Iraq... Our family had 13 serving in WWII, three in Korea, my 2 sons served in Bosnia and Iraq, along with several cousins. Grandsons in Iraq and Afghanistan, and a cousin just yesterday completed his 20th Year of service. During the Revolution just one member of the family had 11 sons serving in the Army and Navy. Most who serve never want the MOH, as the majority of times it is awarded to those Killed in Action.
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