The 22nd Infantry Monument needs your help.

1st Battalion 22nd Infantry

22nd Infantry Monument

October 2009

A concept begun under the auspices of LT COL Steve Russell (US Army Ret.)
to establish a memorial monument to the Soldiers of the 22nd US Infantry
is well under way. The site for the monument has been approved in Patriot Park
at the new museum at Fort Benning, GA.

The project is still in the planning and construction phase and needs our help and support.

The artist's visualization of the monument

showing the statue guarding the obelisk,

and a human figure to give perspective

to the size of the finished project.

The statue is completed and ready to be mounted

on the mounument.

Made out of bronze with lifelike detail

and composure, the figure represents

a Regular of 1st Battalion during the unit's

first tour of duty in Iraq.

The modern Soldier has been chosen to represent

the 22nd Infantry's committment to the future

of our nation.

On the left a close-up showing the detail of the statue.

The statue was modelled after SPC Cody Hoefer, who served with HHC of 1-22 Infantry
in Iraq, 2003-2004. SPC Hoefer appeared on the cover of TIME magazine on March 15, 2004.

Funds are needed to complete the monument.

All donations are tax-deductible, as they go to a non-profit part
of the Regimental Society.

Donations may be made by credit card by going to the
22nd Infantry Regiment Society's website.

There you will find a link through which you may use your credit card,
by going to a PayPal account created exclusively for the monument.

Click on the following link to the Society's website:

www.22infantry.org

Or send checks to:

The 22^nd Infantry Regiment Society
Attn: Martin Oelklaus
P.O. Box 3258
Independence, MO 64055-8258

Please note on check that it is for this monument.

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