Vietnam Veterans gather to be honored at the Vietnam Veterans Day Commemoration ceremony held Friday, March 29 at the Veterans Memorial Park of Jackson County. Veterans of the Vietnam War honored at ceremony…
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Giving in July
Submitted Article As a Sponsorship Group, local support helps place veterans’ wreaths on headstones in Glenwood Cemetery on December 17, 2022 Fort Payne, AL– National nonprofit Wreaths Across America (WAA) is…
Glenwood Cemetery Official Location for 2021 National Wreaths Across America Day
This cemetery will join the more than 2,500 participating locations across the country To Remember, Honor and Teach on Saturday, Dec. 18, 2021. Columbia Falls, MAINE, and Fort Payne, AL —…
Tuberville Hits Trump on Veterans’ Healthcare
By Zach Hester, Reporter • zach@southerntorch.com (Photo by AP Photo/Al Behrman) ALABAMA — Over the weekend, Tommy Tuberville, former Head Coach of the Auburn Tigers football team and Republican candidate for…
Buy a personalized paver and help finish Patriot's Park!
PHOTO: The Prisoner of War/Missing in Action and American Flags raised Friday by Fort Payne High School JROTC over Patriot's Park. (Tyler Pruett | Southern Torch) Contributed by Tyler Wilkes, DeKalb County…
VIDEO: Flags raised at DeKalb County Patriot's Park in Fort Payne
PHOTO: Members of the Fort Payne High School JROTC raise the flags at Fort Payne Patriot's Park; located as you enter the city on Alabama Highway 35. (Tyler Pruett | Southern…
Marine Mom and the Marine Corps League ensured flags were up for Memorial Day
PHOTO: Jim Nabors of Trenton, GA (Past Sergeant At Arms); and Tony Goolesby of Sylvania (Sergeant At Arms) with the U.S. Army Flag, one of the six flags raised at the Mountain View…
Fort Payne American Legion to hold memorial in honor of Four Chaplains
PHOTO: When a troop transport was torpedoed by a German Submarine in frigid waters, four chaplains gave up life vest and their lives so others may live. (Wikimedia Commons) By Tyler Pruett, Managing Editor tyler@southerntorch.com…