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Prince William County honors two fallen soldiers
Prince William County is holding an Armed Forces Day Ceremony at the War Memorial in Freedom Park on Saturday, May 17, at 1 p.m. Freedom Park is located on the grounds of the McCoart Government Complex in between the complex and the Prince William Parkway. The ceremony is in honor of two soldiers who died in service to their country, Pfc. Steven A. Davis and 1st Lt. Benjamin J. Hall. The public is invited to attend the ceremony.
The Prince William County War Memorial was dedicated on Memorial Day in 1992 to recognize those from our county who gave their lives during World War I, World War II, Korea and Vietnam. The county honored those individuals by engraving their names onto the memorial.
In 2006, the county worked with local veterans to find the best way to honor those who had given their lives in the Middle East. It was decided to engrave the opposing face of the stone with the names of the 12 members from our community that had been killed in Iran, on the USS Cole, in Afghanistan and Iraq. In 2007, the names of two marines killed in Iraq were added to the memorial.
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