The David Dewett Veterans Memorial brings together words honoring service, sacrifice, understanding, and peace. Its monuments proclaim that those who do the will of God abide forever, that true love is shown by laying down one’s life for one’s friends, and that veterans seek understanding rather than pity. It also links a nation’s future willingness to serve in war to how veterans of earlier wars are treated and appreciated, and closes with a call for peace through the triumph of love over power, echoed from Pleiku, Vietnam, in 1968.