The Veterans Fountain Memorial in South Gate Park By Monica Gomez

In just 3 minutes and 12 seconds, Monica Gomez transports her listeners to a small corner in the vast state of California. Nestled in the large Los Angeles County, is South Gate City Park, home to the Veterans Fountain Memorial. She heavily details the memorial’s appearance, color, size,
and shape, to aid the listeners in clearly visualizing the memorial. Along with mentioning the history, upkeep, and lack of civilians’ interests. While recounting the city’s purpose for the memorial and their responsibilities to their veterans.

This audio tour is meant to incite some hopeful thinking within the listener, the next time they walk through their city’s park and ignore these monuments. They should step back and begin to ponder why they’re here and what they mean to the community, but importantly to veterans, who are being honored in such a physical way.

The descriptive information presented was collected through in-person observations, while the historical information was obtained through the Militant Angeleno Blog. A personal blog created by a Los Angeles native, where he travels and visits historical Los Angeles landmarks and provides detailed information.

References 

Angeleno, M. (2016). Militant Angeleno. “The Militant’s Epic Militant CicLAvia Tour XVII!” http://militantangeleno.blogspot.com/2016/05/