I've noticed a lot of sprucing up and pride in the way our neighborhood looks! Let's all keep it up!

I also have noticed alot of work being done in peoples gardens and on their homes. It is looking very "up and coming" down here.
Today the County put up a new flag at the park. It is July 4th tomorrow. It would be nice if people went to our park, looked at the memorial, and our new flag.

I hope everyone ejoys the fourth of July in a safe manner. 

I know that many neighbors made calls to the County to get the flag up again. I think calls started going before Memorial Day. Thank You!

Parks had stopped putting a flag in the Park because it would be removed, or defiled by some of the young people in the neighborhood. They had broken the halyard and lock box to protect it.

Please by all means stop in the Park and honor our neighborhood heroes of long ago-and remember those who have served since and are still serving dispite what your feelings regarding war are.

The names on the Memorial were real people who lived here with their families during WWII. Some of the family members still exist and live here. The Memorial and land where the Valley Park sits was all made possible by the residents living here at that time. Some of the neighbors who still live here were at the dedication of the origional Monument. The Monument was redone in marble and reset in it's origional limestone- money to do this was raised by Valley Park neighbors in the 1990's. It was relocated from it's origional site just south of where it now sits, as part of the Flood Mitigation Project done after the 1997 Flood.

Thanks so much for the short history lesson. the monument has always been really moving to me. It's one of the first places I went on 9/11. One of the m ost amazing things is the diversity of the names, and realizing the tremendous sacrifice of the "people of the valley" in WWII to lose that many young men from this small neighborhood.

Lucy