Many of Cornell’s sites honor those who served in World War I and World War II – not surprising, as the university dispatched thousands of its own to serve in those conflicts. During WWI, Cornell provided 4,598 commissioned officers to the war effort, more than any other institution, including West Point.
The Cornell Veterans Colleague Network Group is doing the ongoing work of identifying and documenting sites at Cornell that honor military veterans and making this information available on its Cornell University Veterans Memorials website. The group also organizes running and walking tours of military-related sites at Cornell.
Cornell Botanic Gardens has five places – Sackett Bridge, Leon Ballord Allen Trail, the Palmer-Kinne Dogwood Collection, the Floriculture War Memorial and the Southeast Overlook – that recognize the service of veterans across generations.
Read the full story about these areas on the Botanic Gardens website.
Shannon Dortch is associate director of communications and marketing for Cornell Botanic Gardens.
This article also appeared in the Cornell Chronicle.
Header image: Sackett Bridge, in Cornell Botanic Gardens’ Beebe Lake natural area, is traversed by hundreds of people each day. Photo by Brian Maley/Provided
