Hall of Honor
An education piece that powerfully brings awareness to veteran and active duty service member suicides.
The hallway displays 22 crosses that are representative of and an education piece which powerfully brings awareness to veteran and active duty service member suicides. It also displays black and white pencil drawings of post-9/11 veterans who didn’t die on the battlefield, but due to many other reasons. These drawings are poignant reminders of difficulties veterans face after active duty service to our country.
In addition, the hallway contains likenesses of two Vietnam veteran Medal of Honor recipients, SP4 Leonard Alvarado and SSGT Larry Pierce. This area also includes America’s cost of freedom by listing the number of brave lives lost in each of our wars since the American Revolution.
Established
This reverent place in the Gallery was established on June 9, 2020. On that date, Mr. Dennis Farmer, CEO and founder of Legacy Village, a Veterans Administration inpatient program for drug and alcohol treatment, and a group of veterans from their weekly Vet 2 Vet Recovery meeting came to the Gallery for a private tour. Following the tour and a question & answer session in the Education Room, Mr. Farmer asked about sponsorship and committed $10,000 to the Gallery.
Dennis felt the crosses and drawings strongly align with issues similar to the challenges the veterans at Legacy Village are working through. At that point, Dennis and Jason Geis, executive director and co-founder of the Gallery, agreed on a name for the hallway: the Hall of Honor.
