Hello, my name is Adrienne Skidmore. On November 1, 2011, Sarah and I traveled to C.E. Brehm Memorial Library in Mount Vernon IL. We traveled 57.74 miles on IL-148. This took about one hour and ten minutes. Sarah was very good during the trip. She got to see the new statue about the women that has served our country. The statue featured two famous women veterans. The women are Molly Pitcher of the Revolutionary War frame and Maj. Tammy Duckworth an Iraq War veteran. Duckworth, now the Department of Veterans Affairs Assistant Secretary for Public and Intergovernmental Affairs, was injured on Nov. 12, 2004, while piloting a UH 60 Black Hawk helicopter in Iraq. A rocket-propelled grenade fired by insurgents hit her helicopter, Bruckner said. The subsequent explosion caused severe injuries to Tammy Duckworth’s legs and right arm. She now walks with the aid of prosthetics. Tammy Duckworth received a Purple Heart on Dec. 3, 2004, and was shortly after promoted to major and presented with an Air Medal and Army Commendation Medal. Tammy Duckworth, an Illinois DAR member, said she initially was reluctant to consider lending her face to the sculpture.
This Library is one of the oldest functioning libraries in Illinois. C.E. Brehm Memorial Library is located on latitude longitude coordinates 38-19'03"N and 088-53'51"W. The library was erected in 1904. The library services were started in 1893 when women started a Shakespeare Club. In 1894, the club took rooms on the south side of the square in what became the second floor of the downtown Mammoth Department Store. The circulating library opened its doors on January 9, 1895. Andrew Carnegie was a local businessman that donated 12,700 dollars to the construction of a library. He is now considered one of the founding members of the library.
This trip was very enjoyable for my mother and myself because we are walking distance from the library. Both of us had not seen the new statue and was very surprised by the detail the sculptor used. It was very engaging to visit a local jewel in the middle of our town.
-Adrienne Skidmore.
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