The selection of Port St. Lucie as the site for this monument followed an extensive survey conducted by the Iraq and Afghanistan War Memorial Foundation, which considered over 50 potential ...

Those who were deployed to Iraq as part of Operation Telic in 2003 ... at 11:00 GMT and poppy wreaths were laid at Cheltenham War Memorial on the Promenade. Military veterans attended the event ...

Ahead of the event, the center noted "152 Panhandle military personnel gave their lives during the Vietnam War." ...

The outbreak of war is often unexpected ... where since 2006 the church has housed a memorial to the fallen of the Iraq and Afghan wars, making it the oldest such memorial in the country.