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Gold Star Families Joined by Supportive Crowd at Enduring Heroes Monument for Sunday Ceremony, Yards from Where Rose Parade Started

Published on Monday, January 1, 2018 | 6:16 am
 

Families of six local fallen soldiers were joined by dozens of Pasadena residents, city and Tournament of Roses officials and active duty military members at Defenders Park on Sunday afternoon hours before, for the first time, the Rose Parade marched by the new military memorial there.

“This will be the first year that our soldier will be standing watch over the parade,” said Gold Star Mother Jaynie Studenmund.

Her son, Army Staff Sgt. Scott Studenmund of Pasadena, was killed in action in Afghanistan in 2014.

Studenmund was referring to the new Enduring Heroes Monument in the park, an 8-foot-tall bronze statue which depicts a U.S. soldier triumphantly holding aloft an American flag.

Defenders Park, a grassy section of a small public green near the bustling intersection of Orange Grove and Colorado Boulevards where the Rose Parade starts. The Goodhue Memorial Flagpole on the northeast corner commemorates World War I veterans and the Enduring Heroes Memorial faces the flagpole, symbolically connecting the two.

Also at Sunday’s event were Pasadena Mayor Terry Tornek, Police Chief Phillip Sanchez, Enduring Heroes Monument sculptor Chris Slatoff, Tournament of Roses President Lance Tibbet and other local officials.

The Louisburg High School Band — in town to march in the Parade — honored the Memorial with their music.

 

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