Tagged: memorial

Today on NPR: When the officials at a Florida prison realized who Al Black was, they gave him a paintbrush and the walls as a canvas.

A new memorial to Revolutionary War soldiers is set to be unveiled in Hopkinsville today.  A local chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution has worked since 2007 to identify seventy-one soldiers for the monument.  

A Madisonville veterans’ memorial construction project is running over budget and behind schedule. The memorial at Day Lily Park was originally scheduled to be opened this past weekend. 

Dozens of Vietnam era military veterans are at Fort Campbell today to commemorate the 43rd anniversary of the Battle of Hamburger Hill. The battle took place in May 1969, involving the 3rd Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division. After one of the bloodiest confrontations of the Vietnam War, U.S. and South Vietnamese forces captured the mountain that the Americans referred to as "Hamburger Hill."