LocationBroadway & W. 42nd St. |
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Description
The fountain pools represent the country’s growing involvement in the war culminating in two pools symbolic of the divided opinions of the time. Words etched on the plaque at the entrance include: “This fountain is provocative in its honesty and beauty.”
It was developed by the Kansas City Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, Inc. A semi-circular wall backdrop has the names of 451 casualties. Visitors to this monument leave flags and flowers to honor those who served during one of America’s most turbulent eras.
Nearly 200 hundred years after the area’s first fur trading post was settled on the bluffs of the Missouri River, Kansas City is preparing to honor the French pioneer Francois Chouteau who established it, and the Native Americans with whom he traded. Francois Chouteau...
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