Post 1336 honors community veterans

On a sunny Sunday in September, St. Juvin Post 1336 Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW] conducted a belated ceremony honoring 14 U.S. military veterans whose names were added to the west face of the Community Veteran's Monument located on the Coal City Intermediate School campus.
The monument now has 1,101 names of community veterans dating back to the Spanish-American War.
Pontiac Granite Company recently etched the names along with a Wall of Honor header at the top of the south face of the monument.
Due to health concerns with the pandemic, the traditional Memorial Day observation of reading the names of local veterans, and those veterans whose names were newly added, was canceled in May.
The Coal City Public Library District videotaped the Sept. 13 ceremony to be included with interviews of local veterans on its website as a substitute for the Veterans Day event usually held in the Coal City Performing Arts Center.