'This is a place for them to come,' said Judy C. Campbell of the newly-finished Gold Star Families Memorial Monument in Veterans Memorial Park.
"This is a place for them to come," said Judy C. Campbell of the newly-finished Gold Star Families Memorial Monument in Veterans Memorial Park.As flags fly in the breeze at Veterans Memorial Park in Delaware, dozens of people walk to a white tent in front of a shining new monument. The sight of that monument brings some of them to tears.
"It tripled. It literally tripled in cost," she said of the monument going from a $15,000 construction price tag to $52,000. Graham's grandfather, Hershel "Woody" Williams, made installing the monuments his life's work as a recipient of the Medal of Honor.
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