Falcon memorial honors 53 military service members

A memorial in Falcon is honoring service men and women who have died while serving our country.

53 names are now etched into a wall to remember the people who sacrificed their lives for our freedom. It gives Gold Star Families who lost their loved ones a place to see, touch and remember their legacy.

Sue Silverman still talks about her son did when he lost his life at war.

She says, “he was a helicopter pilot and he was killed in Afghanistan on December 13, 2013.”

Now, she has his brick to visit.

The wall was built originally to honor Dane Balcon, a Falcon High School graduate who died in Iraq back in 2007.

This weekend, it became a memorial for dozens of other families, like Cleo Allgood who still remembers getting the tragic news about her son, Army Colonel Brian Allgood.

“I had the most empty feeling. I felt like somebody had just reached in and pulled out my heart,” she said.

Families know the wall won’t bring them back, but these mothers can agree it keeps their son’s sacrifices alive.

Silverman says, “it means no one is going to forget him. As long as his name keeps popping up on monuments, he won’t be forgotten.”

The wall came together with the help of the Balcon American Legion Post.

The names are currently printed onto the bricks, but they’re hoping to permanently carve them so they don’t wear with time.