National Commander Jimmie Foster joins Auxiliary President Carlene Ashworth at Pointe du Hoc in France for a rededication ceremony of a World War II monument
>>>From the national organization, by Jeff Stoffer
The gray obelisk monument at Pointe du Hoc, a location often described as the most dangerous in the European campaign of World War II, was recently destined to collapse into the English Channel.
It took what American Battle Monuments Commission Secretary Max Cleland called the best of both worlds – “American money and French ingenuity” – to strengthen the earth around the cliff-side memorial, which pays tribute to the U.S. Army Rangers who sustained 70 percent casualties to take out German positions on the coast between Omaha and Utah Beaches on June 6, 1944. The site was rededicated Monday, on the 67th anniversary of D-Day. Continue reading
Blackwell-Frazier American Legion Post #142 Hominy, Oklahoma 