Ultimate sacrifices honored once more at Legion ceremony
BUTLER TWP — Five fresh, young faces pictured in black-and-white and a row of families whose grief lingers more than 50 years later were honored on Friday morning under sunny skies and a huge American flag.
American Legion Post 778 in Lyndora pulled out all the stops in their ceremony to rededicate a group of memorial stones recognizing the ultimate sacrifice paid by five local boys in Vietnam.
The stones were initially installed at the Highfield baseball fields in 2014, but the Legion post rescued the stones when development of a housing plan began at the site.
Thanks to the cooperation of many, the stones were expertly reinstalled among the flags at the Legion post.
On Friday morning, dignitaries, men of the cloth, an honor guard, flag line and World War II and Korean War veterans turned out to participate in a ceremony to rededicate the stones in their new location.
Chairs in the front row were reserved for the families who fondly remember the five young men lost in the jungles of Southeast Asia so many years ago.
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