Alabama Fallen Warriors Monument dedication planned for Memorial Day
The dedication ceremony for the Alabama Fallen Warriors Monument is planned for Memorial Day, May 29, in Trussville.
It will begin at 2 p.m. The monument, located in Trussville Veterans Park on Parkway Drive, honors all the 226 Alabama service members that have died since 9/11 during the Global War on Terror, including four from Hoover.
According to the Alabama Fallen Warriors Project, 115 service members have been killed in action and 111 died a non-hostile death.
The four from Hoover are:
- U.S. Army Sgt. Marquees Quick, a 28-year-old killed in action in Iraq on Aug. 19, 2006.
- U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Thomas Rivers Jr., a 22-year-old killed in action in Afghanistan on April 28, 2010.
- U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Christopher Schornak, a 28-year-old killed in action in Iraq on Feb. 26, 2006.
- U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Ryan Winslow, a 19-year-old killed in action in Iraq on April 15, 2006.
Construction on the monument began in August 2022 after supply chain issues and plan revisions postponed the project from an initial completion goal of Memorial Day 2022. The project was first approved in November 2021, and a groundbreaking ceremony was held a month later.
The monument initially was slated to go in Veterans Park in Hoover, but the Alabama Fallen Warriors organization ran into a roadblock when people who set the original guidelines for the park noted the proposed monument didn't meet those guidelines and objected to it.
For more information, visit alabamafallenwarriorsproject.org.