Veterans Memorial Park Pensacola — Attraction in Pensacola

It was an absolutely amazing experience!! It is a memorial that true has its spot up there with the national memorials I’ve been too. The monuments and memorials cover all the major wars. They have a revolutionary minuteman minute. The Son’s of the American Revolution were involved in this one. The engraved WWI memorial was very elegant, it is showing some age though. Wall South was very touching. Then I visited the Purple Heart monument. It was well done. I continued into the Korean War display it was excellent and had tablets inscribed with the different heroes of the war. Next as I was walking I ran into Stan. He was cleaning up the ground of a newly installed monument. He began a friendly conversation about the park. I learned he was a veteran, but additionally how much he does to make this park run. Their is a whole crew of guys keeping this wonderfully maintained. It’s really hard to believe it’s going on thirty years old. They take extreme care of all the monuments. I also visited the Gold Star family memorial. Stan shared several excellent stories about his time with Woody Williams while the ground was broke and during...

Really enjoy this park for many reasons. I am a retired military member and love the enrichment of the several different types of memorials that have been erected in honoring our thousands of service members who gave the ultimate sacrifice for our country. Many different wars are shown throughout the park of many conflicts our men and women have have fought to keep our country free. I also like that the park has concrete pathways so that elderly and handicap people can stroll and enjoy the park as well. Many different types of people come to visit this park to enjoy its presentation and remembrance of our fallen. These include joggers, exercising type walkers sight see'ers as well as dog walkers to mention a few. Very warm and enjoyable...

As I happily tell people worldwide: With the exception of Arlington National Cemetery, this is THE VERY BEST veterans memorial in the entire country. And I say that after having visited The Arizona memorial and Punchbowl National Cemetery in Hawaii, Gettysburg, Mound Cemetery in Marietta, Ohio, and the full-size Wall on the Mall in DC.

Nowhere else can I go to pay my respects to all my ancestors from Revolutionary War General Jonathan Dayton up through trying to find healing from Vietnam by touching my cousin's name on Wall South and honoring my youngest nephew's service in Gulf War 1 and my adopted brother's contributions to the War on Terrorism. It's ALL here in one place and the best hidden tourist secret in Pensacola. Be sure YOU...