Memorial Day event planned in Libby
The Western News | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 8 years, 12 months AGO
The Lincoln County Veteran’s Memorial Foundation Fund is planning a Memorial Day event at the Veteran’s Memorial in Riverfront Park.
The event will include three speakers from Jeff Gruber’s history class at Libby High School, who will present their essays on the topic of “What a veteran means to me.”
Fund member Terry Andreessen said there will be a slight delay in the setting of the last 14 bricks in the second ring of the memorial, due to a death in the family of the person who prints the bricks. The final row, he said, will be completed this summer, bringing the total to 1,023 bricks. On each brick is the name of a Lincoln County veteran.
Members of the foundation fund invited all members of the community to the Memorial Day remembrance and Andreessen extended a special thanks to everyone who helped make the memorial a reality.
“We really do have a special community,” he said.
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