Western New York Vietnam Veterans Monument

Western New York honors the courage, sacrifice, and devotion to duty and country of its Vietnam veterans and remembers the dead while embracing the living. It speaks of those who answered when called, asked for little and got less, and through their passing left others poorer yet richer for their sacrifice. It also evokes the soldier's experience of going where others feared to go, doing what others failed to do, asking nothing from those who gave nothing, accepting the possibility of eternal loneliness if he should fail, seeing terror, feeling fear, knowing moments of love, and living through times others would say were best forgotten, yet remaining proud to have been a soldier.

Buffalo, New York · United States