Mother Nature was abundantly clear when
she decided that the dedication of the New Gloucester Veterans’ Monument should
be conducted as closely as possible to Veterans’ Day. After snow and mostly
wind postponed the event for a week, she provided a beautiful sunny backdrop
this past Sunday for the hundreds of people who attended the ceremony.
The monument project was a joint effort
between the New Gloucester Historical Society and the Lunn-Hunnewell AMVETS
Post 6, not to mention literally hundreds of donors who supported the project
with cash, in-kind labor and a land donation from McCann Properties LLC. Tom
Blake of the Historical Society estimates that the combined donations totaled
approximately $120,000.
The monument is engraved with 1,149 New
Gloucester Veterans’ names dating back to the Revolutionary War. To raise
awareness about the monument and inspire donations, Dennis McCann set a goal to
run one mile for each name engraved on the monument. He completed that goal and
kicked off Sunday’s dedication event as he arrived running -- to the tune of
“You’re a Grand Old Flag” -- while carrying an American flag.
New Gloucester Boy Scout Troop 135 and
New Gloucester Cub Scout Troop 135 led the Pledge of Allegiance and Jane Lipp
sang the National Anthem. The monument is located at 1029 Lewiston Road in New
Gloucester.
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