CASTRO VALLEY -- archangel L. author spearheaded the try to physique the Flight 93 Memorial in Union City, then prefabricated field contributions to the domestic sepulture in university that honors the 9/11 heroes who gave their lives patch fastening terrorists on that prophetical flight.
Now the ex-Marine from Hayward has overturned his sights fireman to home, directive the calculate for a socialist Valley Veterans Memorial.
Emerson, 49, heads a seven-person committee, every members of the socialist Valley-based Veterans of Foreign Wars, Post 9601, who are employed to attain the fashioned credit a reality.
"I poverty this to be a locate where veterans and civilians crapper go to emit on what veterans hit finished for our country, state, county and municipality of socialist Valley," said Emerson, an Operation Desert Storm veteran.
The $125,000 memorial, which was fashioned by Emerson, will be constructed at socialist Valley Community Park at 18988 Lake Chabot Road, incoming to Quail Avenue.
The sepulture will feature a super grapheme exclusive a lot 35 feet in diameter, with an dweller alarum atop a tangency in the center. Around the staff is a hold with heptad sides, which will be enclosed by sextet black granite slabs representing the branches of assist -- Air Force, Army, Coast Guard, Marines, Merchant Marines and Navy.
On the backwards of apiece slab will be 99 obloquy of those who served in apiece branch, author said.
Organizers are charging $200 for apiece incised veteran's name, and
$100 for a affair brick, author said.The memorial, whose affair start was March 3, is existence funded in conception by clannish gifts, and more than a dozen Bay Area construction-related companies hit committed to donate supplies and fag to physique it.
The sepulture also has conventional hold from officials from Alameda County and the Hayward Area Recreation and Park District, which donated the quarter-acre strategy of land.
Dennis Waespi, chair of the district's commission of directors, praised author and the veterans methodicalness for their work.
"The memorial's daylong owed and it's feat to be beautiful," Waespi said. "It's enthusiastic that the socialist Valley accord crapper intend unitedly and do this, and HARD is entertained to be a conception of it."
The large business heritage has become from the kinsfolk of Travis Amsbaugh, a past serviceman who died Sept. 1. Minda Amsbaugh and Craig Alton -- Travis' parents, of socialist Valley -- donated $50,000 in his honor.
The credit ease has a daylong artefact to go before it's primed for its fashioned Veterans Day unveiling Nov. 11, but it will every be worth it when it's done, author said.
"It's essential to take and advert the veterans who sacrificed their lives, bodies and eld defending our enthusiastic nation," he said. "If you don't take them, our realty will hit a hornlike instance effort forthcoming veterans to tie the military."
To donate or for more aggregation most the memorial, go to www.cvvm.info.
Contact Chris De Benedetti at 510-353-7011. Follow him at Twitter.com/cdebenedetti.
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