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Illinois Fallen Wall memorial coming to Kendall County building in Yorkville · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Illinois Fallen Wall Memorial coming to Kendall County Building in Yorkville.
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  Speaker 1: Written by Eric Shelkoff, This article is being read by
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  Speaker 1: an automated voice brought to you by Everlett. After their
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  Speaker 1: son was killed in twenty twelve as part of Operation
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  Speaker 1: Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan, Bob and Mary Patterson were looking
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  Speaker 1: for a way to honor not only their son, but
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  Speaker 1: also others who made the ultimate sacrifice. The Illinois Fallen
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  Speaker 1: Wall is a tribute honoring the memory of Illinois military
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  Speaker 1: service members who have been killed in action since September eleventh,
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  Speaker 1: two thousand and one. The memorial, presented by the Chris
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  Speaker 1: Patterson Memorial Foundation, features the photos of every Illinois service
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  Speaker 1: member who gave their life in combat operations after nine elevehs.
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  Speaker 1: The display will be opened to the public from May eighteenth,
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  Speaker 1: twenty in the first floor Community room of the Kendall
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  Speaker 1: County Office Building, five zero four South Main Street, Yorkville,
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  Speaker 1: during regular business hours eight am to four thirty pm.
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  Speaker 1: Last year, the Village of Oswego hosted the Illinois Fallen
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  Speaker 1: Wall in partnership with Oswego honors veterans. It's not just names,
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  Speaker 1: its faces Bob Patterson said during the May ninth opening
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  Speaker 1: ceremony at Oswego Village Hall. Look at them, and maybe
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  Speaker 1: they're going to look back at you. If I can
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  Speaker 1: reach one person to honor and remember somebody that gave
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  Speaker 1: their all, then the wall has done its job. Chris Patterson, twenty,
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  Speaker 1: a North Aurora resident, was a member of the Indiana
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  Speaker 1: National Guard and served as a combat engineer. He was
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  Speaker 1: killed along with three other soldiers in his unit in
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  Speaker 1: January twenty twelve while conducting combat root clearance operations as
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  Speaker 1: part of Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan. Patterson was a
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  Speaker 1: two thousand and nine West Aurora High School graduate. Also
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  Speaker 1: speaking at the ceremony was Denise Williams, mother of Army
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  Speaker 1: Private First Class Andrew Marh of Plainfield, who was killed
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  Speaker 1: in action in Afghanistan on November one, twenty ten. He
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  Speaker 1: was twenty one. Mary was her only child. She is
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  Speaker 1: a licensed professional therapist of clinical psychology who works with
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  Speaker 1: those experiencing trauma and grief. Williams also serves as the
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  Speaker 1: president of the American Gold Star Mother's Department of Illinois.
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  Speaker 1: This memorial, these faces are those who in this generation
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  Speaker 1: fought that fight for all of us. She said, they
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  Speaker 1: paid the price for our freedom. Williams urged people viewing
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  Speaker 1: the Illinois Fallen Wall to learn more about those pictured
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  Speaker 1: in the memorial. Take a moment, look them up, She said,
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  Speaker 1: what town are they from? Where did they go to school?
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  Speaker 1: What sports or music or art did they love? Then
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  Speaker 1: tell someone I saw the face of a young soldier
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  Speaker 1: who gave his life for this country, A soldier who
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  Speaker 1: has a story. He was from Plainfield, or Aurora, or
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  Speaker 1: Morris or Champagne, right here in Illinois. The asw Goo
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  Speaker 1: Honors Veterans Group is comprised of representative from the Village
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  Speaker 1: of Oswego, Oswego Fire Protection District, Fox Valley Veterans Breakfast Club,
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  Speaker 1: American Legion Post six seventy five, and Fox Valley Marines
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  Speaker 1: Detachment twelve thirty three. The group previously helped organize the
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  Speaker 1: events that brought the Vietnam Traveling Memorial Wall and the
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  Speaker 1: Middle East Conflicts Wall of Honor to Oswego in twenty
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  Speaker 1: seventeen and twenty twenty one, respectively.