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After more than six year of planning, fundraising, and construction, the Fauquier Veterans Memorial in Warrenton is complete.
The large stone monument to Fauquier County’s veterans, located on Hospital Hill above the old Warrenton Bypass, will be dedicated at a special Veterans Day ceremony at 4 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 11.
Participating in the ceremony will be Virginia’s two U.S. Senators, the Hon. John W. Warner and the Hon. Charles S. Robb and Secretary of Veterans Affairs Jesse Brown.
Assisting will be member of the Fauquier five American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars posts, who will lay a wreath at the memorial wall.
The new memorial, built on the “military crest” of the hill, features extensive stonework, a plaza marked by a five-pointed star, and ramparts opening to a sweeping view of Warrenton and the Bull Run Mountains.
Of particular interest will be the unveiling of the Desert Storm railing, created by sculptors Frederick E. Hart and Jay Hall Carpenter.
Mr. Hart, a resident of Fauquier County, is best known for the dramatic Vietnam Veterans Memorial Sculpture (the three soldiers) in Washington, D.C., and his work on the west facade of the National Cathedral.
Mr. Carpenter, of Gaithersburg, Md. worked with Mr. Hart on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Sculpture, and has also assisted Mr. Hart on his works at the National Cathedral.
The walls, plaza and flagpole base of the Fauquier Veterans Memorial were designed by Meade Palmer, of Warrenton, a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects, and his associate, Carol Blair, ASLA. A long-time Fauquier
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