The Yellow Ribbon, (sculpture).

The Yellow Ribbon, (sculpture).

Muno, Rich, 1939- , sculptor.

Bronze Horse Foundry, founder.

The Yellow Ribbon, (sculpture).

Cast 1989. Dedicated May 29, 1989.

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Sculpture: bronze; Base: concrete.

Sculpture: approx. 6 ft. 5 in. x 31 in. x 36 in.

(On lower right of male figure's proper left foot:) RICH MUNO/1989 (On bronze plaque on front of base, raised letters:) (United States Postal Service symbol)/"IN LOVING MEMORY AND HONOR OF THESE POSTAL WORKERS/SLAIN IN THE EDMOND POST OFFICE MASSACRE OF AUGUST 20, 1986"/(List of fourteen names in two columns)/PSALMS 158:8 "YOUR LOVE, O LORD, ENDURES FOREVER" (On plaque on back of base:) MEMORIAL DONORS/(List of fifteen donors) signed

This memorial to postal workers killed on August 20, 1986 at the U.S. Post Office depicts a man and a woman in their mid-30s, dressed in casual clothes, standing next to each other holding a piece of a large ribbon. They are turned slightly toward each other and the man places his proper right arm around the waist of the woman, and the woman places her proper left arm around the waist of the man. The ribbon extends from the hands of the figures down to the base, wraps completely around the circular base, and returns to the front where it is tied in a large bow. The circular base is placed in the center of a large fountain basin with fourteen water jets, one for each of the slain postal workers.

History -- United States -- Oklahoma

Occupation -- Service -- Postman

Object -- Other -- Ribbon

Outdoor Sculpture -- Oklahoma -- Edmond

United States Postal Service, Edmond Main Post Office, 200 North Broadway, Edmond, Oklahoma 73034

Erected in memory of the fourteen postal workers who were slain at the Edmond Post Office Massacre on August 20, 1986. The sculpture was dedicated on Memorial Day in 1989. Fourteen small interspersed plaques placed on the flat surface of the fountain basin list the names of those slain workers. IAS files contain a related article from the Edmond Evening Sun, May 30, 1989, pg. 1-2.

Save Outdoor Sculpture, Oklahoma survey, 1996.

Edmond Evening Sun, May 30, 1989, pg. 1.

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