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Veterans Walk of Honor Brick Campaign 2024
Applications, due Friday, March 15, 2024, are also available in the mayor’s office at City Hall, 355 Main St. For details, call 203-937-3502.
Each year since 2006, joined by West Haven Veterans Council and West Haven Vietnam Veterans members and city officials, veterans and their families from across the state and beyond turn out for the dedication of each phase of the brick Veterans Walk of Honor in Bradley Point Park,West Haven, Connecticut.
In November 2006, the Veterans Council began the first of annual 15 campaigns to date selling bricks to memorialize veterans on the 100-yard walkway between the William A. Soderman and Vietnam Veterans memorials.
Approximately 3,000 bricks have been installed so far.
In May 2015, the dedication of the eighth phase included the dedication of a granite stone in memory of Veterans Council President Lorelee “Lori” Grenfell, who died in 2015 at age 60. The memorial was crafted by Giordano Bros. Monuments of West Haven.
The Walk of Honor’s first phase and the city’s Korean War Memorial were dedicated in May 2007.
In May 2008, the walkway’s second phase and a memorial in honor of World War II Army Pfc. William A. Soderman were dedicated.
Soderman received the Medal of Honor after he distinguished himself in December 1944 while defending an important road junction near Rocherath, Belgium.
Four years after his death, on July 1, 1984, the flagpole in Bradley Point Park was dedicated in Soderman’s memory.
City Human Resources Commissioner Beth A. Sabo has overseen the construction of all phases of the walkway, which was built by City Point Construction Co. of West Haven.
Sabo has also supervised the design and placement of the granite Korean War and Soderman memorials, which were made by Shelley Bros. Monuments of Guilford.
Also in 2008, 14 grave markers signifying every war in U.S. history and peacetime were dedicated. The markers are mounted on granite posts.
Watch the “2021 Veterans Brick Ceremony” on West Haven YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwrTcERW1j0&t=2s
Source: MICHAEL P. WALSH, Public Relations Information Coordinator, City of West Haven
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Applications, due Friday, March 15, 2024, are also available in the mayor’s office at City Hall, 355 Main St. For details, call 203-937-3502.
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