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Local Union 18 Surveying the Mohawk Honor Roll For Restoration!
“Please review the entire list of names. We hope that you find someone’s name that with your help will enable us to contact them or their family. We want to make them aware of our effort to restore the Memorial and invite them to return to Mohawk and view the finished product.” They should know that we have worked to make the Honor Roll a lasting tribute to their personal sacrifices while serving the United States of America in World War II”
Paul E Collett
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Sunday, November 18th, 1945 the Mohawk Honor Roll Memorial located on the corner of Ravine and McMillan was dedicated to the fine men and women who served their country during World War II. Five hundred and eighty one of our brothers and sisters were on this memorial, men and women who without hesitation or reservation walked away from their lives to ensure the freedoms of the American way of life for the future. Today, more than ever, in light of terrorism across the globe, and the threat it poses to us, as well as our men and women in the armed forces, we need to stand together and recognize the services of our military personnel. We are fighting for the same things now that we fought for over fifty years ago. It is my wish that their sacrifice may not be in vain, that we can reminisce back to a simpler time and realize that freedom and justice mean the same thing today as they have meant in the past. The Mohawk Honor Roll Memorial has seen better days. The brick is starting to falter, and the concrete around the bottom has all chipped away. The worst, however, is that all of the five hundred and eight one names that were on the honor roll have been removed. It is my intention to restore this monument back to its original state. To continue to honor those men and women that served our country in its complete triumph in what was called the “Great War”. But I cannot do this alone, like the men and women that served on that memorial they worked as a team to achieve a great victory. I urge you to work with me to accomplish this small goal, which seems so miniscule compared to what they did for us. Let them not be forgotten. Give their descendants a place to see their name and recognize their honor. These men and woman were called the “greatest generation” they fought to ensure our freedom, and I believe its my generations responsibility to ensure these monument are preserved for future. Mohawk wasn’t just a place to live it was a community that was a family. This family of neighbors all pitched in to help build this monument. I want to restore it for them as well. So this community can have it’s symbol back, it is a growing community that is looking forward to better times, and I think that starts now. I walk those streets and I see the rift raft being replaced by hop scotch, drug dealers being replaced by backyard baseball, and guns replaced by jump ropes. Let’s keep this going so this community can have a beacon of light, lets tell them that we still care for them, and that the government is here to help them, that they don’t have to do it on there own. And let’s not forget what a symbol can do for a community, as we look at the statue of liberty, the soldiers hoisting the flag on top of Mt. Suribachi at Iwo Jima, and a fireman holding an American flag at ground zero. So I ask you, help me rebuild this symbol.
November 18th 1945 Mohawk Dedication
"So, let us not be blind to our differences - But let us also direct attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences can be resolved. And if we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. For, in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal." - President John F Kennedy ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Below are the men and woman that were and will be on
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