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Valley Garden Club member Jerry Zeitz uses a level to check the pole that the Blue Star Memorial Plaque will be mounted to Saturday at the Honor Garden in Wasilla. (ROBERT DeBERRY/Frontiersma
Valley Garden Club member Jerry Zeitz uses a level to check the pole that the Blue Star Memorial Plaque will be mounted to Saturday at the Honor Garden in Wasilla. (ROBERT DeBERRY/Frontiersman)
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Valley Garden Club member Florene Carney mixes a batch of concrete Saturday morning at the Honor Garden in Wasilla. Carney along with several other members were setting the pole that the Blue Star memorial plaque will be mounted to. The Blue Star Memorial began in the 1940s to honor World War II veterans, but in 1951 the program was enlarged to to include all men and women, who had served, were serving or would serve in the armed forces of the United States. This is the seventh marker in the state. The others are in Tok, Anchorage, Kenai (Anchor Point), Ketchikan, Fairbanks and Juneau.
Valley Garden Club member Florene Carney mixes a batch of concrete Saturday morning at the Honor Garden in Wasilla. Carney along with several other members were setting the pole that the Blue Star memorial plaque will be mounted to. The Blue Star Memorial began in the 1940s to honor World War II veterans, but in 1951 the program was enlarged to to include all men and women, who had served, were serving or would serve in the armed forces of the United States. This is the seventh marker in the state. The others are in Tok, Anchorage, Kenai (Anchor Point), Ketchikan, Fairbanks and Juneau.
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