Honor Park Groundbreaking Ceremony

One of the monuments honoring veterans in a city of Dayton park at West Third Street and Edwin C. Moses Boulevard in West Dayton. The park is will be the home of a new memorial honoring recipients of the Medal of Honor who are from the greater Dayton area. CORNELIUS FROLIK / STAFF

Medal of Honor memorial will be erected in West Dayton

A nonprofit organization plans to break ground next month on a new memorial in West Dayton that will honor 41 Medal of Honor recipients from the greater Dayton region. Wright Dunbar Inc. has raised more than $1.3 million of the $1.5 million needed to construct the memorial, which will be placed in a city park at the northeast corner of West Third Street and Edwin C. Moses Boulevard, right by the bridge and river.

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