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FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Every constituent of the Fresno County Sheriff’s Memorial honors the 21 members of the Fresno County Sheriff's Office who gave their lives successful the enactment of duty.
From the moving h2o of the partition of grant to the bare tomb, to the eternal flame, each item and inscription tells a communicative of sacrifice and remembrance.
The three-million-dollar publically funded task began successful 2021 nether past Sheriff Margaret Mims
"To support a promise, a committedness that Sheriff McGarry and I made to families erstwhile we mislaid their loved ones... and that committedness was to ne'er forget, this is simply a carnal manifestation of what it means to ne'er forget," Mims said.
Fresno County Sheriff John Zanoni says it's 1 happening to spot the plan but different to spot it successful person.
"When radical travel unneurotic with a program with an thought and you get the enactment of the community, the enactment of the county, the enactment of the sheriff's office, look what we did," Zanoni said.
Ahead of Wednesday’s dedication ceremony, the 2 sheriffs bespeak connected wherever they were erstwhile their friends made the eventual sacrifice.
I was moving the nighttime of Jeff Isaac. I responded to Erik Telen, Phelps, Josh, and we each retrieve Scanlin that time that greeting astatine the jail," Zanoni said.
"1907 was the archetypal loss, but implicit fractional of them happened implicit my career," said Mims.
While galore volition consciousness the emotions of tomorrow’s ceremony, Mims says its intent is for the families to grant those who person been lost.
"Families volition beryllium present for the dedication, families representing each azygous 1 of those names connected this partition each the mode backmost to 1907," Mims said.
Wednesday's ceremonial begins astatine 9 americium astatine Substation 2.
