By Dena Wood
The Times
City Commits $5,000 to WWII Memorial
Memorial will fulfill a promise to honor the Valley's fallen military members
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The monument will be surrounded by an existing circular walkway and flanked by benches. The monument is in close proximity to both the WWI and Vietnam memorials, near Fort Walla Walla.
WAITSBURG – A committee of local active and retired military men has every intention of seeing that a promise made to WWII General Jonathan Wainwright in 1946 – to honor local lives lost in WWII with a memorial – finally becomes a reality. Waitsburg's city council didn't hesitate to join the cause and committed $5,000 to the endeavor.
Retired USAF Command Sergeant Don Schack went before Waitsburg's city council last week to share plans for a WWII memorial that would honor the 87 Walla Walla Valley men who lost their lives in WWII.
Schack said that 4,420 men from the City of Walla Walla and sur...
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