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National D-Day Memorial marks 82nd anniversary with tribute to advocate Lucille Hoback Boggess
2+ hour, 3+ min ago (584+ words) Bedford's National D-Day Memorial will commemorate the 82nd anniversary of D-Day on Saturday with a ceremony honoring the Allied landing at Normandy and remembering Lucille Hoback Boggess, a key advocate behind the memorial who died earlier this year. The ceremony also…...
Hometown D-Day heroes honored
2+ hour, 46+ min ago (125+ words) Many from the area who stormed one of 5 beaches in Normandy, France on June 6th, 1944 - D-Day - never made it home, including the now-immortalized Bedford Boys. Two from the Roanoke area that did make it back from D-Day and other theaters of…...
New Civil War monument honors black soldiers
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (149+ words) Two years of work by volunteers in Franklin County is coming to fruition on Sunday. As WFIR's Denise Allen Membreno reports that's when Raising the Shade unveils a monument to black Civil War soldiers. On Sunday, the day before Martin…...
More On Golden Pond, The Diary of Anne Frank and a Who-Ville Holiday Market
6+ mon, 3+ week ago (68+ words) From the WFIR News room this is your Culture Calendar - With a look at some of the local events coming up this weekend and in the near future. Sponsored by the Roanoke Cultural Endowment. From the WFIR News room this…...
81st anniversary of Operation Overlord
11+ mon, 3+ week ago (144+ words) Today the world remembers Operation Overlord, what we here in the United States call D-Day. As WFIR's Denise Allen Membreno reports one history professor says the fact that operation has earned the moniker of "D-Day" shows the importance of the…...