Angels Landing Recollection
A Zion Canyon oral history preserves a recollection of encountering “Kilroy was here” on the way up Angels Landing.
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After 1945, Kilroy outlived the circumstances that created him. Veterans remembered him, the story became folklore, and the old wartime mark turned into a cultural shorthand for having been there first.
A Zion Canyon oral history preserves a recollection of encountering “Kilroy was here” on the way up Angels Landing.
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