By Paula Carlton
NEWS Correspondent
If a picture is worth a thousand words, photographs of Gloucester City\’s veterans are priceless.
That is why Mayor William James, his advisory committee, and several of the town\’s numerous and extraordinarily dedicated veterans of foreign wars are putting out the hue and cry for pictures of the approximately 68 townsmen who gave their lives defending the United States and its allies.
Their campaign intends to bring 2 feet by four feet banners with photos and other relevant details for each lost veteran to existing poles along Broadway during the months of May and October, when the nation celebrates Memorial Day and Veterans\’ Day, respectively.
Project Leader Ted Howarth Jr., a Vietnam veteran who ran the town\’s Memorial Day parade from 1978 to 1998 and currently organizes Brooklawn\’s memorial services, said the genesis of the banners was a general idea to breathe life back into the town\’s Memorial Day events, to better honor what Howarth calls \”those who made the supreme sacrifice.\”click link below to read more
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