You can visit the Irving Veterans Memorial at 644 Rock Island Road, just east of Irving City Hall and the Central Library. The memorial was built in the two acre park bordered by Irving Blvd., Sowers Road and Rock Island Road.

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The polished black granite panels in the plaza walls are each 3' wide, with the end panels being 8' tall and 4" thick. They weigh in at 1,700 lbs. each.  The photos on the granite are permanently etched into the surface  using a technique that involves a photo process to generate a mask.  The photo is then sandblasted into the stone and color filled with a special coating to bring out the detail.  The lettering and maps are deep-sandblasted into the granite using a stencil cut from a rubberized material.

The panels were then taken to the site and built into the Leuders roughback walls.  This is a Texas limestone that is quarried in Leuders, Texas, which is near Abilene.

The map on the plaza floor is 2" thick flame finished black granite that has been waterjet cut to the shape of the world map and is installed in pieces in a 30" X 30" grid.  Oklahoma flagstone was used to fill in the floor around the map pieces.

The five bronze statues are life size figures of soldiers from the U.S. armed forces.  Each one is historically correct and is placed near the wall whose era they represent.