Service members can be honored at monument

As residents finish celebrating Memorial Day, the Veterans Remembrance Committee encourages residents to visit the graves of fallen veterans or the Union County Veterans Plaza where names of more than 600 Union County war casualties are listed on the back of the monument.

The Veterans Remembrance Committee has begun preparing for the Veterans Day Program to be held on Sunday, Nov. 9 on the Courthouse lawn at the plaza.

This is also an opportunity to honor a veteran with an engraved paver. Orders placed by June 14 will be placed in the Veterans Monument Plaza by the Fourth of July and dedicated during the Veterans Day program. As of now there are more than 2,200 veteran pavers in the plaza. The location of individual…

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