Bill Smothers Park, Owensboro, Ky

I recently was in Owensboro and went to the Ohio River to take pictures of the bridge and some boats. I knew about the Shelton Memorial, but I had never visited it. This memorial to Colonel Charles Shelton, who was shot down over Laos on his 33rd birhtday in April 1965, was absolutely beautiful and very moving. Because of Colonel Shelton's resistance to his captors & his legandary attempts to escape and because his wife, Marian, refused to allow her husband to be listed as dead until the government proved he was not alive, Shelton became known as "the last P.O.W." This memorial to his life and his family was erected at Smothers Park in 1999.
To read more about Colonel Shelton, click to go to the offical Arlington National Cemetery Website at http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/charlese.htm

Bridge over the Ohio River connecting Kentucky & Indiana

Plaque about the Flood of 1937