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Danville National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in the city of Danville, in Vermilion County, Illinois. Administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, it encompasses 63.3 acres (25.6 ha), and as of 2014, it had 12,000 interments.
Pearson/Frisch Home 408 Elizabeth St. 1880 June 17, 1991 N/A Old Fire Station #2 705 N. Walnut St. 1898 July 22, 1991 N/A Bookwalter House 1701 N. Logan Ave. 1922 March 23, 1994 N/A Harrison Park Clubhouse 1300 W. Voorhees St. 1911 April 27, 1994 N/A Fischer Theater: 156 N. Vermilion St. 1884 June 29, 1994 2001 Garfield Place Garfield Place 1938
The branch, which opened in 1898, was one of eleven branches of the National Home, which formed in 1867 to treat Union soldiers disabled during the Civil War. U.S. Representative and Danville resident Joseph Gurney Cannon used his political influence to establish the Danville Branch, which brought money and jobs to the city. The campus served ...
More than 100 motorcycles made their way as part of the Vietnam Traveling Memorial Wall and Cost of Freedom Tribute escort through downtown Ashland to the Ashland County Airport on Wednesday evening.
A 53-foot (16 m) tractor-trailer transports the 375-foot (114 m) wall replica and converts to a mobile Education Center at each stop, showing letters and memorabilia left at The Wall in Washington, D.C., and more details about those whose names are shown. An earlier half-scale 250-foot (76 m) replica has been retired to permanent display in ...
The National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers was renamed the "Home Service" within it. The Marion Branch was then renamed the Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Marion, Indiana. In 1996, the facility was integrated with the Fort Wayne facility by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs , becoming the VA Northern Indiana Health Care ...
The area that is now Danville was once home to the Miami, Kickapoo, and Potawatomi tribes of Native Americans. [5] [6] Danville was founded in 1827 on 60 acres (240,000 m 2) of land donated by Guy W. Smith and 20 acres (81,000 m 2) donated by Dan W. Beckwith. [7]
The 'MiG-17F' no. 3020 was a license-made Shenyang J-5 attached to the VPAF's 923rd Fighter Regiment, and was flown by at least two of the six VPAF's MiG-17 fighter aces, including Nguyễn Văn Bảy and Lê Hải; both of whom survived the war, with Lê retiring as a Senior Colonel. [6]