Nearly 22 years after they first proposed honoring Allen County’s veterans with a memorial wall, a group of local residents has hopes to expand it.
Members of the Veterans Day Committee met Wednesday to discuss the Veterans Memorial Wall on the south side of the courthouse square. The wall has room for about 500 more names before more window displays would be needed. Name plaques list more than 6,000 veterans from Allen County. Some date back to the Spanish-American War of 1898.
Committee members noted that about 1,000 names have been added since the wall was originally…
Group seeks to expand veterans wall
