Veterans Cemetery becomes part of national legacy

Thanks to a local Boy Scout Eagle project, the gravestones at the Washington State Veterans Cemetery on Espanola Road will soon become part of a national legacy project helping educate the public about the sacrifices people have made in serving the United States.

Eagle candidate John Demke of Scout Troop 321, Moran Prairie, led a group of 30-35 other volunteers on a clear, unusually calm day for the West Plains Saturday, May 21, in walking the cemetery's rows of markers, as well as those interred in columbarium niches, and taking photos of what they saw. The photos were then uploaded to the ap...