A talented high school art teacher has produced an enormous, 40-foot (12-meter) patriotic military mural for an Iowa state park as a tribute to the nation’s brave veterans.
Dave Schaeffer, 43, of Blue Grass, Iowa, teaches art to ninth through twelfth grades at Davenport West High School in his hometown of Davenport. He was approached by the town’s Friends of Veterans Memorial Park Committee, who knew of his large-scale work, to paint a mural for the park to be placed alongside an existing bench, plaque, and flag. The opportunity was too special to pass up.
