Jenks dedicates state’s first Purple Heart Garden to honor military heroes

Community members gathered in Jenks this weekend to dedicate a new Purple Heart Garden at Veterans Park, created to honor service members wounded or killed in combat.

City leaders and residents joined together for the ceremony, which marked the unveiling of what officials say is the only Purple Heart Garden in Oklahoma and possibly the first of its kind in the nation.

Jenks Mayor Cory Box said the project started as a simple idea…

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