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The U.S. Forest Service calls the monument “the pivotal attraction of the Mitchell Recreation Area.”
The stone memorial is surrounded by picnic tables and fire grills. There’s also the “Shrapnel Tree,” a Ponderosa pine that bears scars from the long-ago bomb explosion and in 2005 was designated an Oregon Heritage Tree.
Elsie Mitchell’s parents attended the monument’s 1950 dedication, but their son-in-law wasn’t able to do so. He was in Vietnam spreading the gospel. In 1962, he and two other Christian missionaries were kidnapped by the Viet Cong and disappeared.
It’s not known what became of them. ....

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