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cres A Focusing on Today’s Rural Environment
Volume 8, Edition 24
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stone with a purpose Jerry Frank stands next to the upright stone destined to become a veterans’ memorial in his front pasture.
Frank honors veterans with pasture memorial BY SARAH COLBURN | STAFF WRITER
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ANDALL – The veterans memorial on Jerry and Tina Frank’s front lawn has become a place where people stop to take photos and pay their respects to those who have served their country. Jerry erected the memorial in August 2016. It’s made of a 9-and-a-half-foot stone that was discovered when he was working with a company to get the big rocks out of his cow pasture. The stone was so large the company unearthed it but couldn’t lift it. It lay in the pasture for a year or two before Frank realized its true purpose. He hired a neighbor with a front end loader to help move the stone, but their equipment topped out at 22 tons so in-
stead, the neighbor dragged it across the pasture and lifted it vertical onto its natural square stone base. A natural triangular shape graces the top of the stone. “It was shocking,” Frank said. “That rock was perfectly square with the world on that base.” The stone was a natural fit to serve as a monument to veterans. Frank himself served as a Marine during the Vietnam War. He was stationed as northern artillery control in North Vietnam. His father was in the U.S. Army during WWII, his brother was in the Navy as a PHOTOS SUBMITTED Vietnam veteran and another A veterans’ memorial is pictured in all its glory, with flags honoring all five branches of the military service,
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located in Jerry and Tina Frank’s pasture near Randall.
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