Unveiled in Coronado’s Star Park on June 21, the League of Wives Memorial is the first public memorial in the country to recognize military spouses.
Hundreds were seen wearing pink to honor Sybil Stockdale, Coronado resident who founded the League of Wives and wore pink to address President Richard Nixon when she fought for the humane treatment of the prisoners of war in Vietnam.
Stockdale is the first woman who can be identified in the statue and the three women behind her represent the collective group of women—military spouses of the past who advocated for their husbands when they could not.
Alexia Palacios-Peters, the memorial project’s foundation chairperson, said that the military wives now are the legacy of these women who lived in Coronado not so many years ago.
