Elevation 1107 ft. - GEARY County Seat
61 miles from Topeka, Vern and Letha entered town looking for store, cont. below
| turned up Main
Street and saw 5 Marines guarding the local Vietnam Memorial. This
struck them as odd, not being near any of our memorials since 9-11.
Continuied in wrong direction, turned around and saw 3 more Marines, guarding
the Buffalo Soldier Memorial in Pawnee Park. A memorial to African-American
soldiers, is a bronze statue of a nine-foot-tall Buffalo Soldier and his
horse. The 4,000-pound horse and rider is part of a larger memorial to
the Ninth and Tenth Cavalry, two groups of black soldiers that existed
from the 1860s to the 1940s.
Continuing on, about 9:00 a.m., They found a store to stock up with water and snacks, $16.82 worth. Next stop was Abilene. |
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