County seeks to borrow combat boots for special Memorial Day display

Any Kerr County-area veterans who have combat boots are being asked to loan them to the Kerr County Veterans Service Office for a very special display planned during the 2025 Memorial Day Program.

“Our appeal a few months ago yielded very few loans, leaving us far short of our goal. So, we’re asking our community again in the hopes we can pull this off,” said Kerr County Veterans Service Officer Jenna Sanchez.

“During our annual Memorial Day program in May, we would like to use the combat boots to create a visual representation – a memorial, if you will – to honor all the Kerr County service members who have died in service to this great nation, from World War I to present day,” Sanchez said.

“To do that, we need exactly 88 pairs of combat boots,” she said.

The VSO plans to place the boots in formation near the Kerr County War Memorial on the courthouse grounds so that everyone can see them during the program on Monday, May 26.

The boots will be returned to their rightful owners, Sanchez confirmed.

Anyone who has boots to briefly loan to the Kerr County VSO is asked to call its office at 830-792-2203 or drop them off to Suite 107 in the county’s 550 Earl Garrett Street facility during operating hours Mondays through Thursdays.

“We think this will be a fitting tribute to our local service members who sacrificed all for us,” Sanchez said. “But we need our current veterans’ cooperation to pull it off!”