MA DUers!! Fallen Soldier Tribute In MetroWest! WOW

[matcom]

look what Mrs Matcom found in our local paper :wow:



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HOLLISTON -- Traffic rolled slower than normal down Rte. 16 yesterday afternoon.

Drivers' eyes were drawn to the roadside as the names of fallen soldiers clipped past: Sgt. Jesse Strong, Lt. Anthony King, Cpl. John Olson.

Stapled on telephone polls in Holliston, Ashland, Hopkinton, Milford, Sherborn and Medway are signs bearing the names, ages and home states of 1,802 soldiers who have perished in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Kevin Ryan, who drives through Holliston on his way home to Milford every afternoon, said he couldn't help but slow down.



"The ages are the thing that gets me: 19, 20, 19, 21," he said coming out of the Holliston post office in yesterday's foggy drizzle.

The signs are the work of Bobby Blair -- a postal worker here and a Vietnam veteran -- and his army of 60 volunteers who put up the signs over the weekend.

Two years ago, Blair put up 147 names on Washington Street. Last year, 880 signs lined 10 miles of roadway.

Now, two years after Saddam Hussein was plucked from power, the death toll continues to rise and Blair needed 33.4 miles of road to handle all the signs.

They line the length of Washington Street from Sherborn to Milford Town Hall. They run up Rte. 126 into Ashland, and south to the Bellingham line. They stretch up Hollis Street and Prentice Street into Hopkinton, and down Central Street into Medway.

Ryan, who has seen the signs every year since Blair started, said he is against the war in Iraq, but that doesn't stop him from supporting the soldiers.

"I think a lot of people take for granted what's going on over there," he said. "I don't think our military gets enough credit."

Blair makes new signs whenever more lives are lost. He said he hasn't had to play catch-up.

He did have to remake the first 147 signs though, because he burned them after taking them down.

"I thought the war would be over," he said. "I thought it was going to be like Desert Storm."

http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=99474

[GOPisEvil]

1. 33.4 miles of road...

:cry::patriot:

[GCP]

2. Good for him.

It makes a hugely better point than those frikkin; yellow magnetic ribbons on the SUVs.
My new bumber sticker says "Support the troops. Impeach the Commander".

[candy]

3. Since the Sherborn Inn is a favorite lunch spot for me I'll have to

get over there and check out the signs.It must be very moving.