WE KEEP ADDING TO THE COLLAGE!!!!!!!! “152 STRONG”

SEND US YOUR VETERANS IN UNIFORM. We are now up to 152 individual Woodruff Area Veterans within this collage. Send us pictures of your Woodruff area veterans. We will add them to our Hero’s Collage.

Woodruff has an extremely diverse group of veterans spanning every war since WWI and beyond. JUST IN THIS COLLAGE ALONE we have veterans from WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Cold War, Gulf War, GWOT (OEF, OIF, OIR), and everything in between to include some still serving today (still in service today in this collage we have a 3 Star Army General, 2 Air Force Majors, an Air Force Captain, an Army First Sergeant, and numerous other Officers & NCOs of various branches). This collage also has numerous officers to include 2 generals, 2 Pilots, 2 Bomber Navigators, 2 Missile Officers, 1 Intel Officer, 2 Soldiers from the historic SCARNG 2007-2008 218th BCT deployment, numerous Non-Commissioned Officers, 2 Rangers, 7 African American Veterans, 13 Female Veterans, 2 Hispanic Veterans, 1 Philippine Veteran, 2 Purple Heart recipients, and 5 who died while in service. These amazing veterans came from all walks of life to work in Combat & Non-Combat roles consisting of various types of Infantry Gun Slingers, Office, Admin, Mechanics, Aviation, Surface Warfare, Engineers, Boatswain Mates, Artillery, Medical, Calvary, Electronics, Logistics, Communications, Explosives & Demolitions, Airborne, and many many more. Also in this collage are dads, sons, brothers, wives, sisters, grandfathers, grandmothers, uncles, aunts, nieces, nephews, friends, neighbors, school classmates, one of our very own Woodruff High School Principals Mr. Simpkins, and our very own hometown legend Coach WL Varner. Also in this collage from the surrounding area is General Westmorland from Saxon, SC but who’s family is from Woodruff where he spent a lot of time (Commanding General of the Vietnam War) & Toy Caldwell of Roebuck, SC (one of the founding members of the Marshal Tucker Band). These veterans performed their selfless service in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Army Air Corps, Marine Corps, Coast Guard and National Guard. Each of them have a part of this country’s history and a story to tell. All of these veterans, regardless of what era they served in, combat or non-combat, their rank, or branch they served in, consider each other family.

We as a community are super proud of our hometown veterans and want to honor them in the building of this Woodruff Veterans Memorial in McKinney Park in downtown Woodruff. Whether they were born here or moved here later, they are all our Hometown Heroes. Unlike all the veterans listed above, Woodruff has so many more veterans not represented in this collage. We want to change that. By building this Woodruff Veterans Memorial, we hope to represent as many of the Woodruff area’s military sons and daughters by being represented with a personal brick covering the floor of the memorial. Please, represent your veteran. If you see any of them out and about, thank them for the sacrifices they and their families made for the freedoms of this great nation.

DONATIONS: We are a 501c3 non-profit organization and this monument will be built with zero city funding. So, we need your support and your tax-deductible donations. Please help support a long-lasting memorial to honor your hometown heroes. If you have any questions, please send a message to me or to any of the committee members. Any of us will be willing to answer any question(s) on the Woodruff Veterans Memorial. Donations can be made by scanning the QR Code listed all over our group page and this Woodruff Veterans Memorial Facebook Page. Thank You for your support.

WELCOME HOME……..!!!!!!!

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ATTENTION: We will be working on the collage to spread out our veteran pictures to give better equal space for each of our veterans. it wont be perfect, but we will try to make some of the pictures larger and better visible. Soon to come…