SPARROWBUSH—Driving down Route 97 in Sparrowbush, bypassers may have noticed a new flagpole rising up from the grounds behind the Sparrowbush firehouse.
The flagpole and the concrete ring around it were erected this summer by the Deerpark Veterans Committee, the beginning of what is soon-to-be an all-veterans’ memorial, the first veterans’ memorial in Deerpark.
“My name is on a memorial over in Middletown—there’s a Vietnam vets memorial over there,” said Floyd Babcock the progenitor of the project and a member of the Deerpark Veterans Committee. “So I got to thinking, ‘Why do I have to travel past two cities to have a memorial?’”
Why do I have to travel past two cities to have a memorial?
