A rose garden has been planted around the Civil War Monument in Willoughby, Ohio, at the north end of Erie Street downtown. This side commemorates the 1864 Battle of the Wilderness, fought in Virginia.
Most towns have a monument to war fallen, with the names inscribed in stone. You'd be amazed how many surnames you'd recognize. They're the ancestors, direct and collateral, of people you know.
These memorials are frequently situated in such a way that you can't photograph them without the aesthetic carbuncles of street signs, traffic signals, utility lines and poles.
The roses do make up for it.
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