In a recent post I observed that this country seems to be littered with obelisks in the shape of the Washington Monument. (Actually, I noted that, in my travels, I’d stumbled upon exactly two facsimiles of the famous monument in D.C.) Picking up on that implied challenge, faithful reader Joel R. offered this photo (plucked from cyberspace) of a monument to Sergeant Charles Floyd, Jr., who was evidently the only fatality of the Lewis and Clark expedition. What’s more, the monument is claimed to be the United States’ first National Historic Landmark. It’s in Sioux City, by the way.
Perhaps, during your post-Covid travels this summer, you will find another example of this recurrent architecture. If you do, I would appreciate a photo to add to my collection.
Chasing Phantoms 
Sgt. Charles Floyd Jr., may have been the inspiration for the name of my great-grandfather: Charles Floyd Detwiler (b. 1873 Muscatine, Iowa & d. 1943 San Francisco). My great-great-grandfather picked interesting names for his sons: Hugh Sherman Detwiler (because my great-great-grandfather had been a Union Army soldier in Gen. Sherman’s march-to-the-sea) and Justice Brown Detwiler (my great-great-grandather was a small town lawyer). Steve knows that I sometimes make up fanciful stories to baffle him, but this one isn’t fiction! We don’t know for certain, but we think that the connection to the name is there. – Peter Detwiler
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Now that’s a great story! Makes me wish I’d come up with a more interesting name for my son. Like Rowan N. Martin Boilard. (Think 1970s variety shows…)
And of course, your own given name must be a reference to the guy manning the gates of heaven…
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