Newberry Veterans Memorial

10/30/2025

The City of Newberry invites you to our annual Newberry's Veteran's Memorial Tribute as we come together to honor the brave men and women who have served our nation with courage and dedication.

📅 Monday, November 11th
🕘 9:00 AM
📍 Newberry’s Veteran’s Memorial at Lois Forte Park
120 NW 260th St, Newberry, FL 32669

Let’s stand united in gratitude and remembrance as we pay tribute to those who have defended our freedoms. ❤️🤍💙

08/12/2025

08/12/2025

What a disgrace and blatant disrespect! All 8 flags were taken and 2 of the ropes were cut. If anyone knows anything about this, please let us know!

Authorities are searching for those responsible after several flags were stolen from a newly constructed veterans memorial in Newberry. Read more below.

05/29/2025

05/27/2025

Thank you, Dr. Baltzley, for providing the funding for this wonderful bronze K-9 Warrior statue! Thank you, Katie & Zandra for joining us for the ceremony & ribbon cutting and providing these great pics!

05/27/2025

My welcoming remarks this morning at our Memorial unveiling:
Welcome to Newberry, Welcome to Lois Forte Park and the soon to be named Newberry Veterans Memorial Park

On behalf of a grateful community, we appreciate that you choose to be here with us to mark such an important occasion.

Today is Memorial Day, originally known as “Decoration Day,” a day traced back to the Civil War times when soldiers’ graves were decorated with flowers. Congress made today official in the Uniform Memorial Holiday Act in 1971.

Today is Memorial Day
A day to reflect.
A day to remember.
A day to commemorate.

Our family prays over this memorial, we pray for those who have made the ultimate sacrifice for us, our community, and our country. We owe these soldiers our deepest gratitude.

Thank you to the hearts that conceived such a beautiful work of art and the hands who built it.

Newberry is a character community
We shine brightest in the darkness and today is no different
There is no challenge we cannot overcome except the ultimate sacrifice.

We remember our freedom because others gave of theirs.
We have liberty because they chose death.
We come together to honor those veterans who chose us over themselves.

On the back of the program is why our Veterans Memorial Committee felt so strongly about this project. They wanted:
• A place to remind us America is the land of the free because of the brave
• A place for our youth to learn and understand
• A place to meditate and reflect
• And a place to connect our community for generations

I can’t help but look at this broken and incomplete circle this halo and think of the broken hearts that mourn and the incomplete families who sleep restless at night without their soldiers to hold…….ever again.

But I also recognize this is where our community comes in.

Though we cannot replace a loved one, we can serve these hurting families and fill those very same gaps death has left behind…

With a helping hand, a giving heart, or a sympathic ear and ,symbolically, one day complete the circle for these families once again.

It is our duty to ensure their sacrifice is not in vain.
To carry on their memories, their stories.

Today is Memorial Day
To remember,
To reflect,
To commemorate our fallen heroes.
Thank you for being here.

Your presence says a lot to me, to our community, and to our Veterans Memorial Committee

May God bless you and God bless our soldiers and their families.
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I am blown away by the outpouring of support this morning from Newberry and the surrounding community. I was overwhelmed.

05/27/2025

The memorial is located at at Lois Forte Park

05/26/2025

Good morning. On this day of remembrance of those who made the ultimate sacrifice, this is also the day that we will honor all veterans with the dedication of the Newberry Veterans Memorial. What an amazingly special morning for our Veterans and team who were there for the first flag raising.
Photo credits: Travis Boyd Patti Marie Durrance Charity Hall

05/25/2025

There are so many lovely details in our Veterans Memorial Park. We can't wait to share them with you!
Travis Boyd, thank you for the wonderful contribution of Zoysia and Bahia sod and the installation. Jim Fleming, Tropic Traditions, thank you for the beautiful landscape plants and trees.
Photo courtesy of Travis Boyd, Boyd & Son Sod Farm.

05/07/2025

Mike Yoho. Thank you for sharing this wonderful video and giving us an aerial "3D" perspective. This was created on the morning of May 7th. We were onsite discussing placement of the bronze K-9 Warrior statute and granite monument with bronze plaque.

05/06/2025

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