The Veterans Wall of Honor honors members of the U.S. Armed Forces who served in peace and war since the Revolutionary War. In the spring of 2001, Leonard Eisert presented the idea for the monument to six interested veterans, and that meeting led to the formation of the Veterans Council. The Veterans Council of Northwest Arkansas was incorporated in Arkansas in 2001 as a tax exempt 501(c)3 organization. It broke ground on October 1, 2003, and was dedicated on November 6, 2004, before a huge crowd headed by Lieutenant Governor Winthrop Rockefeller. The site includes a 36-foot time line of major military events from 1776 to 2006, 63 bronze historical plaques summarizing those events, 18 historical flags, a fountain, and 4,167 incised veterans’ tablets mounted on 24 walls. One of the council’s major objectives is to inform school groups and the general public of veterans’ contributions to securing the nation’s freedoms, and it is also a partner in the Veterans History Project sponsored by the Folklife Center in the Library of Congress. Architect Leonard V. Watten said the circular enclosure was chosen as a form historically associated with safekeeping, with an entrance arch leading visitors toward three concentric circular walls that reveal in sequence a timeline of military events, a graphic elaboration of those events, and a graphic review of military symbols and inceptive statements. Granite tablets containing engraved names and service reference are mounted on the inner face of all circular walls, and the central gathering area, focused on a bubbling fountain, is intended as a place for reflection on service and sacrifice throughout U.S. military history.