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Veteran’s mission accomplished | WWI memorial gets new centerpiece

Published 11:05 am Thursday, July 2, 2015

By Brandon Macz

Veteran Robert Shay admires the new installment on the 'Lest We Forget' monument in Downtown Park. A crew placed the bronze flag
Veteran Robert Shay admires the new installment on the 'Lest We Forget' monument in Downtown Park. A crew placed the bronze flag

Vietnam veteran Robert Shay admired a new bronze sculpture he raised money to have created for the ‘Lest We Forget” World War I monument in Downtown Park on Wednesday.

The VFW Post 2995 chaplain spent the past five years working with the city to honor the three WWI veterans memorialized on a plaque.

The monument was first dedicated by the Bellevue Minute Women and Bellevue School District on Armistice Day 1926. The soldiers honored there are Victor Freed, Victor E. Hanson and Oscar Johnson.

 

 

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