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68 Landscape Architect and Specifier News Design Elements As you enter the park under the Visitor Center canopy you encounter the stunning, colorful Service Medal Wall, 171 individual-colored glass panels exhibiting ribbons of military honors of the five military branches, from the Medal of Honor and the Good Conduct award, to the ribbon for completing basic training. The Garden Support Sentry, a nine-foot tall slab of solid glass uplit with LEDs, marks the end of a visual path from the entrance of the park through the Visitors Center and the Story Garden. Carved into the glass element is an excerpt from the "Carolina's Welcome Home" speech by Thomas Bickett, governor of North Carolina during World War I. The North Wall of the visitor center is the backdrop for the Community Lawn. The N.C. Living Wall employs vegetation, native stone and water to represent the state's topography, from its highest peaks to the piedmont the Top, Left the project site was a derelict piece of land adjacent to Cross Creek, a narrow, urbanized stream with some sections of hardened channel. the project coaxed the land back to health and community service. a relocated streambed, rain gardens, and constructed wetlands were some of the means used to achieve this goal. the flowing boardwalk mimics the adjacent stream. Stormwater is treated in constructed, naturalized wetlands. Plants here include river birch (betula nigra 'Duraheat'); weeping willow (Salix babylonica); inkberry holly (Ilex glabra); and sweet pepperbush (Clethra alnifolia). Bottom, Left replacing an internal entrance drive to the airborne & Special operations Museum (aSoM) resulted in a strong, linear space connecting the aSoM, framing the existing parade field and offering a home for local public art. the larger than life statue is general henry hugh Shelton, a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1997- 2001), and commander of the 82nd airborne Division at Fort bragg in his home state of North Carolina. h. ross Perot commissioned the statue, which was not part of the design plans for the park. the walk is lined with 'knock out' roses. Middle the Community Lawn serves as an unstructured play area or for formal events. With time, vegetation on the perimeter fence will mature to provide a green enclosure for the space. PhotoS: Mark herboth PhotograPhy 64-73.indd 68 2/28/14 5:22 PM