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impression of reaching for the sky. A cast-bronze American eagle will cap the top.
Fontana said that he jumped at the opportunity to get involved with this project. "These guys found us and wanted us to get involved in the latter part of last year. We've been plugging away ever since, with about three months ago," said Fontana. "It's been great to work on something so significant with wonderful, focused people."
The 12 to 14 veterans on the memorial fund committee have been going full blast as well. "We've raised $40,000 so far and we need raise $75,000. We're set to break ground in March with the unveiling set for Memorial Day," said Parsons, whose husband serves on the committee as a veteran of the Battles of Normandy, Holland and Bastogne.
Parsons and her husband visit Normandy every June 6, where large crowds gather to remember D-Day and recognize those who gave their lives. "It's the war that gave us the freedom we have today and we have no
memorial. I told my husband if I don't do anything else before I die, I'm going to do this even if we have to pay for it ourselves," said Parsons.
Fontana is only charging the group the cost to make the monument, meaning the company won't be making a dime on the project. "Sometimes jobs come along that are more important than money and this is one of them," he said.
Fontana and Co. deals with pretty much everything involving the stone industry. "We're fabricators of all types of signs, benches and monuments," said Fontana. "About half of our work is monuments and gravestones."
V. Fontana and Co. was involved in fabricating the entry portals at Golden Gate Park and sculptor George Segal's Holocaust Memorial near the Legion of Honor in Lincoln Park. They started out as huge boulders, until shapes are cut into them and a finish is added. That is after designs are drawn.
"We do sketches and go back and forth until we get exactly what the
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