A brief ceremony is planned at 2 pm, April 24, in the Memorial Gardens along the Army Heritage Walk. it will rededicate the VBOB monument that had first been erected in 1997 but which had been in storage for a number of years.

We first learned its status in September and the Board authorized Outreach to work with the Army to do what was necessary to put fit on public view. Our task force chair, Tom Vossler, worked effectively with officials of AHEC and the War College and the monument was erected in a prime location before two months had passed.

There will be a tram o transport people out to the site. All are welcome.

Committee chair Leon Reed and advocate Tom Vossler stand beside monument,

A new best-seller in BOBA’s booklet series is available: Nurses and Guardian Angels. Pulling from all the Bugles since 1982, we’ve assembled the stories of Ruth Puryear, Mary Alm, Margaret Hammond Walenski, and many other nurses who worked under hardship conditions and in great danger to bring wounded GIs back to health.

Booklets available. Price $15, including shipping. Paypal or Venmo or mail check to leonsreed@gmail.com or Leon Reed, 205 Old Mill Rd., Gettysburg, PA 17325

Special topics

• Nurses and Guardian angels

• Christmas in the Ardennes 1944

Booklets available:

Infantry: 1^st, 2^nd, 4^th, 26^th, 28^th, 30^th, 35^th, 75^th, 80^th, 83^rd, 84^th, 87^th, 90^th, 99^th, 106^th

17^th and 101^st Airborne

3^rd, 4^th, 7^th, 9^th, 10^th Armor

Incidents: Monschau; Lausdell/Twin Villages and Lanzerath; Elsenborn Ridge; Malmedy/Wereth massacres; Stoumont/LaGlaize (30^th-740^th); Stavelot ; Parker’s Crossroads; Closing the Southern Bulge

Functions: Engineers, Quartermaster, Nurses

Christmas in the Ardennes1944