Lest We Forget

This mural illustrates a history of wars fought in the name of freedom.  Liberty, draped in an American Flag, is portrayed as Pandora opening the box that contains the conflicts of our nation.  Vignettes of those conflicts swirl about, including the wars of the Middle East, Vietnam, Korea, World Wars I and II, America's Civil War, and the Revolutionary War.  The vignettes remind us that “Freedom is not free”.

Witness to this history is a young man holding a baby whose outstretched hand reaches for the yellow ribbon of peace being delivered by a white dove.

The early version of this mural adorned the inside wall of the old Punta Gorda Post Office for many years.  It was lost when the old Post Office had to be torn down to make way for the new one.

The mural was appropriately dedicated in a Commemorative Veterans Ceremony on Veterans Day (November 11) 2005 at the KIWANIS Veterans Garden in Laishley Park.

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