In this episode, Trevor Thomas & the Blain’s Farm & Fleet crew head west to La Crosse to speak with Jordan Briskey, a 21-year-old college student whose patriotism and care for our Vietnam veterans as a 15-year-old at Holmen High School, led him down a 6-year path of grassroots fundraising to build a local Vietnam War Memorial in Veteran’s Freedom Park to pay tribute to our fallen Wisconsin heroes.
Jordan was only 15 years old when he set out to create a Vietnam war memorial at Veteran’s Freedom Park, in La Crosse, Wisconsin. The memorial is a scaled down version of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial that can be found in Washington DC. It is a wall that lists the names of the 1,163 Wisconsin residents who gave the ultimate sacrifice during the Vietnam War.
Learn more about Jordan, and his journey in creating this memorial in this week’s episode of Deeper Roots, with Blain’s Farm & Fleet.
This episode features Holler House, the oldest sanctioned bowling lanes in the country nestled quietly in Milwaukee's Polish South Side.
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