The Henderson City Council approved on Monday a design for the veteran’s memorial that will be installed in front of the police station.
Hartwell Wright with American Legion Post #60 described the memorial to Council Members and said he expects the cost to be in the range of $150,000.
The memorial will be solid granite and will have six sides – one side for each branch of service, Wright explained.
“We’re going to do everything in our power to make it Henderson-specific,” he said, but the memorial will not include the names of individuals. The plan is to create another granite wall, along the order of the Vietnam Memorial in Washington, D.C., to put those names.
“We hope you’ll be as excited as we are to recognize our veterans,” Wright said.
And with the hefty price tag, he said fundraising will begin as quickly as possible.
Planners had hoped to be able to use the stone memorials that had been installed at 110 Young St. in this memorial, but they just won’t work out, Wright explained. Instead, those stones – which were provided by the American Legion, will be placed on display on the Post 60 property on Garnett Street.
