Polo Historical Society’s Obendorf: Our veterans program

We had a rainy evening for Polo Historical Society’s program, which presented “Veterans of the Polo Area.” We were most fortunate to have several high school students taking part that evening. Kevin had started things out by telling us what he is doing with highlighting the veterans at the museum. He is attempting to find every veteran that went from Polo. He wants to mark every grave of those buried in Polo, which is a big order.Kevin also told us about the dogs that went to the service of our country from Polo. That was interesting and something we do not think about as we honor our veterans. One dog did not make it back to Polo. Also there was memorabilia brought to the Polo Senior Center for the evening. A bomber’s jacket and another jacket that a serviceman had painted with pictures and war slogans were on display. Purple Hearts from Eldon Engle and the French medal, the Croix De Guerre, that was given to Nathan Mount were there for people to see. Other military artifacts were on