This November, the City of Lexington is honoring veterans with two dozen banners – one for each of the vets from Fayette County inducted into the Kentucky Veterans Hall of Fame. Robert Larkin is the city’s emergency management director and chair of the city’s Veterans Affairs Commission. He’s a retired Army National Guard brigadier general from Maysville who saw how his hometown honored vets last year.
“I connected with it very well for the simple fact that I knew a lot of those people on those banners, went to school with their kids and with their grandkids, and a lot of them were absolute pillars of the community. And I thought, you know, maybe that they'll be a great thing for Lexington.”
He said the banners, which are on Vine Street, are a collaboration with the Kentucky Veterans Hall of Fame and the Lexington History Museum.
“I'm hoping that maybe the program will expand, that we might be able to put it around the rest of the city, whether it be at schools, maybe to honor a veteran, alumni, universities, businesses, that type of thing.”
Each banner has a link to a short bio of the veteran. The Kentucky Veterans Hall of Fame is headquartered in Lexington.
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