On Wednesday, Sept. 10, a Flossmoor Public Works Department crew took down three telegraph poles, believed to be a century old, from a parcel of land in the southwest corner of Flossmoor Park. It is the first step in preparing the site for the construction of a new veterans memorial.[Read More…]
Tag: World War II
A hero’s salute for the uncle they never knew
A military historian’s deep dive into the details of what happened to a single plane lost in 1944 during the Allied invasion of Normandy instantly changed the significance of D-Day for Nancy Baran Voll and her husband, Gregory Voll, of Homewood. Growing up, Nancy and her brother, Bob Baran, heard[Read More…]
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