The memorial took on a new meaning. It will have tremendous history lessons for generations to come.

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A young man came up to me at the mall where we were filling out applications and wanted to buy one for his captain, who had been killed in Iraq by a sniper.

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When the bricks are engraved on site, the engraver has to clean the brick, then glue the stencil and wait for it to dry. Then he sandblasts the name and then he has to get the stencil up, clean the glue up and then clean up the mess from the sandblasting.

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We're progressing right along (on the memorial). The foundation has been poured, but the wet weather has held us up from progressing further. Right now, we have a mud hole.

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