Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Veteran Memorial Planned for Lake County's CLC-- Part 1

From the Dec. 11, 2014, Lake County (Il.) Suburban Life "$5,000 donation puts CLC closer to veteran memorial completion" by Stephanie Kohl.

A recent $5,000 donation from the Military Order of the World Wars has put the College of Lake County (CLC) closer to completion of its Veterans Memorial.

The effort for a memorial began back in 2006 with Wayne Maczko, a stationary engineer at the Grayslake campus of the college and U.S. Army veteran.  He was inspired by a photo from Arlington National Cemetery  of a man in a squatting position about to place a flag in front of a marker.

The Veterans Memorial is on the west side of campus, Willow Lake veterans Memorial Park is just missing its soldier.  Roughly $60,000 needs to be raised to complete the bronze statue which will be about 1 1/3 the size of a person.

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