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Chalkpaw

climber
Flag, AZCO
Topic Author's Original Post - Sep 27, 2016 - 09:31am PT
Hi all,
I have this multi year landscape project underway and would like to hear how you would honor a fallen warrior? There is a natural area close to me about one square mile in size and I am installing a few features (benches and picnic tables) and interconnecting trails. I am simply amplifying awareness to an existing landscape with a history of burial and, exhmmm, death. In short, I am creating a memorial park dedicated to the fallen warrior.

This forum is filled with expertise about this subject and I want to create a space where others can honor and offer ceremony to those who have passed. I wonder slightly what would give a person reason enough to visit this public space and simply be? I would like the space to be known as a informal memorial park, it does not have big features like a national park, nor is it formal like a cemetery. It would have some things I think people could connect to. What would the climber and/or outdoor nut do or want in a memorial park? My goal would that the space would offer comfort for people. They can use the trails, climb the rocks, have meditation space, have a place to offer remains. So far, there are about 6-7 sites along the trails for "memorial". People could add what they wish.

I am also not asking for permission, seek no fame or fortune. No public monies. No official stamp. I am comfortable on letting the forces of man or nature to change what I would create. I would maintain it for a few years to see if the project becomes known or let it die and go back into nature. It has a long history of existing burials, those sites long ago looted by the curious and greedy. Pets have been buried there, and there is one new site with wind-chimes and ashes not yet two years old. It has this long history of the thing we all have to experience. “No one gets out alive”.

So, does your community have something like this? Or have you done something like this? I’m interested to hear what others have done. Blessings.
Mungeclimber

Trad climber
Nothing creative to say
Sep 27, 2016 - 10:47am PT
I would think a meditative space and a climbing space are not totally mutually exclusive, but a climbing space might get noisey with more than one person, so distance between those two locations might be appropriate.
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Sep 27, 2016 - 11:51am PT
I hope the relatives of this warrior own the property, so you don't get crossways of anyone.

The symbols we military men use can be tastefully added, as a single memorial, or sprinkled along the trail.

Empty combat boots are a common item.

Symbols of the individual, jump wings can be carved into a tree trunk, an Air Cav patch made into a small plaque.
There are other ideas, if any of that is even remotely what you're wondering about.
NutAgain!

Trad climber
South Pasadena, CA
Sep 27, 2016 - 01:19pm PT
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