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Rock Creek Veterans Park to add new area of brick markers
Group seeks churches' help in identifying fallen to be honored
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Lyman Coker plots out how part of a new area of engraved brick markers with veterans’ names might look at Rock Creek Veterans Park in Gainesville. Looking on, from left, are Richard Wiley, Jerry Peck and Harvey Black.
With a pencil in hand, Lyman Coker traced in the hardened sand the possible borders of a marker that would give words to an otherwise somber scene — bricks engraved with the names of area military men and women. “We’re coming up with some good freedom quotes,” Coker said. “It’s all about the freedom we enjoy and the price that was paid for that freedom — where young people can walk up here and understand the freedom they enjoy comes with a cost.”