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Wesley Chapel in Pasco County, Florida — The American South (South Atlantic)
 

Florida Honors and Remembers our POW’s and MIA’s

 
 
Florida Honors and Remembers our POW’s and MIA’s Marker image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Brandon D Cross, March 8, 2019
1. Florida Honors and Remembers our POW’s and MIA’s Marker
Inscription.

The light of freedom still burns brightly in our world today because
of the service and sacrifice of America’s men and women in uniform.

Our Nation’s servicemen and women have fought the forces of tyranny and
won victories for liberty, human dignity, and the ideals of democracy.

We remember, with profound gratitude, those who suffered captivity
and those whose fate remains unknown.

We honor and pay tribute to those valiant families of our servicemen and
women who remain missing – families who have had to suffer not only the
absence of their loved ones, but also the certainty of their fate.


We the citizens of Florida
commit that
“You Shall Not Be Forgotten”

 
Erected by Florida Department of Highways.
 
Topics. This memorial is listed in this topic list: Parks & Recreational Areas.
 
Location. 28° 12.809′ N, 82° 22.401′ W. Memorial is in Wesley Chapel, Florida, in Pasco County. It can be reached from Interstate 75 (at milepost 278), one mile south of Wesley Chapel Blvd (State Road FL-54). Located at the Visitor Rest Area. Touch for map. Memorial is in this post office area: Wesley Chapel FL 33544, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this memorial is on Florida’s Gulf Coast and on Tampa Bay. It is also in the American South and on the Gulf Coast. Globally, it is in the North Atlantic Region, North America, a Gulf of Mexico state, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once New Spain, the territory of the Mississippian Culture, one of the Confederate States of America, and the Antebellum South.

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At least 8 other markers are within 6 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: A different marker also named Florida Honors and Remembers our POW's and MIA's (approx. 0.3 miles away); Concord Stagecoach Road (approx. 1.8 miles away); Double Branch Baptist Church and Cemetery (approx. 3½ miles away); Wesley Chapel (approx. 3½ miles away); Ehren Community (approx. 5 miles away); Dupree Gardens (approx. 5.3 miles away); Ehren African American Community / Mount Carmel Church And Cemetery (approx. 5.8 miles away); Holton Cemetery (approx. 6 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Wesley Chapel.
 
Another marker is no longer nearby. Trooper James “Brad” Crooks Highway (was approx. 2 miles away but has been confirmed missing).
 
Florida Honors and Remembers our POW’s and MIA’s Marker image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Brandon D Cross, March 8, 2019
2. Florida Honors and Remembers our POW’s and MIA’s Marker
 
 
Credits. This page was last revised on April 3, 2019. It was originally submitted on March 31, 2019, by Brandon D Cross of Flagler Beach, Florida. This page has been viewed 297 times since then and 24 times this year. Photos:   1, 2. submitted on March 31, 2019, by Brandon D Cross of Flagler Beach, Florida. • Andrew Ruppenstein was the editor who published this page.
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