Memorial Park, Cove, Arizona by junge1
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This Memorial Park adjacent to the Chapter House in Cove, Navajo Reservation, Arizona is dedicated to the Navajo Veterans that served in the Armed Forces of the Untited States of America and to the Navajo Uranium Radiation Victims.
In the 1940's and 1950's American Indians from the local community mined Uranium ore from the hills around Cove for the atomic weapons program of the United States.
Now the area is the location of a cluster of lung cancer and other respiratory diseases related to uranium.
This picture was taken on 7 November 2003.
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Comments (30)
Faemike55
Wonderful photo and interesting information! Thank you for sharing
Rainastorm
Cool Memorial :-)
lyron
Great shot and wonderful memorial!!
shadownet
Nice memorial. Its sad about the lung cancer. So much we didn't know back then comes back to haunt us now.
timtripp
amazing info!
bmac62
Knew about the vets but not the cancer. Good piece ig.
MagikUnicorn
Oh Unique place !
flora-crassella
interesting shot!
sandra46
I didn't know they built a memorial. In the 1980 I hosted a Navajo woman who came to speak about the problems of pollution caused by the uranium mines and gave me a lot of interesting photos. Great document, thank you!
flaviok
Captura sensivel e bela, excelente meu amigo, aplausos (5)
gypsyflame
Loved the document, love the picture....thank you for sharing
danob
Bravo Sig and I hope the Navajo get better compensation than many of our Troops and Vets did after Xmas Island Or even the Gulf war syndrome.. Monuments are not worth a lot otherwise!
Digitaleagle
Very interesting shot and info.!!!!
jocko500
wonderful shot
MrsLubner
Much to be learned from this... I hope. Somber mood and great shot.
Minda
beautiful picture and great info sig...Thanks for sharing this to us...
auntietk
Something you said about this yesterday rang a bell, and now I've figured it out. It reminded me of a Tony Hillerman story. (Everything I know about that area I learned from reading murder mysteries.)
Richardphotos
the poor taking jobs no one wants to feed their families and paying dearly
dbrv6
Very interesting Memorial Park and info - I had not heard about this before.
Darkwish
Awesome! Very well done!
renecyberdoc
amazing and well poor people with this diseases.
PIERRE25
Excellente capture!
jeroni
Fanstastic photo
emmecielle
Interesting shot and informations! Thanks! :)
debbielove
A very interesting but 'uncool' part of history. A worthy show.... Thanks for this, my friend. Rob.
carlx
Excellent capture!!!
lucindawind
a lovely capture ! very sad also
greensleeves81
They digged out hell! In history there are certain things what science considered as great invention at one moment became a destruction itself. Artificial fertilizers and peticides are among them.
kgb224
Stunning capture my friend.
erlandpil
Good shot erland