This week took me to two CVS's located in Tuscaloosa AL and Mobile AL.
Located just west of my hotel was the Tuscaloosa Veterans Park.
The park was established around 1976 with its only feature being the original mast from the U.S.S. Tuscaloosa, which is now the central display in the park. More has been added to the park through the years.
Recently the park has added a jeep, a Purple Heart monument and the four memorial walls, also known as the "Honor Roll of Veterans."
The idea of adding the memorial walls came about in late 1999 when three WWII veterans, Glenn "Bill" Clements, George Welch and Bill Koeppel, talked to the Veterans Committee about making monuments to recognize local soldiers.
The park started with two walls and recently added two more. Each side of the walls hold 190 names and also lists what service the veterans were a part of and what wars they participated in.
There are also symbols on the walls to show if the veterans were killed, wounded or missing in action or if they were prisoners of war.
Recently the park has added a jeep, a Purple Heart monument and the four memorial walls, also known as the "Honor Roll of Veterans."
The idea of adding the memorial walls came about in late 1999 when three WWII veterans, Glenn "Bill" Clements, George Welch and Bill Koeppel, talked to the Veterans Committee about making monuments to recognize local soldiers.
The park started with two walls and recently added two more. Each side of the walls hold 190 names and also lists what service the veterans were a part of and what wars they participated in.
There are also symbols on the walls to show if the veterans were killed, wounded or missing in action or if they were prisoners of war.
P.S. USS Tuscaloosa, was a 9975-ton New Orleans class heavy cruiser, was built at Camden, New Jersey, and commissioned in August 1934. After a shakedown cruise to Argentina and Uruguay and post-shakedown overhaul, she went to the Pacific in April 1935, spending nearly four years there taking part in U.S. Fleet exercises and other activities. In January 1939 Tuscaloosa came back to the Atlantic area for Fleet Problem XX, steamed around South America during April-June, and carried President Franklin D. Roosevelt on a cruise off New England and eastern Canada in August. With the outbreak of the European war in September 1939, she began Neutrality Patrol operations.
For more visit: http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-t/ca37.htm
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