We have added a name to the Memorial Hall wall of heroes. Another young man, CPT Corey Jenkins, USA, was killed in Afghanistan on Aug. 25, 2009. He was serving as a Physician's Assistant. He was returning from a humanitarian mission to give cholera vaccinations to a local village. On their return, he and 7 others were killed by an IED. Today, we memorialized him at BYU.
This is the third name we have added to the wall since I began working here in April 2001. I hope it's the last. It's probably not.
I look at all the other names, dating from WWI, and think of the collective grief that each name represents. One long side of the Hall is all windows, facing east, framing Y Mountain. It seems fitting to be able to see the majesty and permanence of the mountains from this room.
The mountains give me a necessary reminder of my place in the scheme of things.
3 comments:
Well shared. Thank you. I didn't even know about this wall.
It probably sounds wrong to say, but I hate Memorial Hall. So few people know about it or understand what it means if they know about it. It's so sad, representative of a small portion of immense pain.
nice job, Guh! Your long hours of work on these Memorials is farther reaching than you'll ever know. I agree with Mena, BYU does a TERRIBLE job about informing/advertising about the Memorial Lounge. Most students don't know it even exsists or where it is. Definitely something that every student should be aware of.
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