The Cecil Field POW/MIA Memorial will begin taking shape in the coming months with the restoration and dedication of the chapel, a static display of aircraft and a museum. That’s just Phase 1 of the project that Executive Director Mike Cassata hopes will become the...
School lessons of military conflict and escapes from captivity took on a whole new meaning Friday morning as students at The Foundation Academy listened to veterans reliving heroic stories from their time fighting for freedom. Dennis “Dizzy” Gillespie and Andy...
Pam Cain (from left), daughter of Col. Oscar Mauterer, stands during the National Anthem with Sam Mastrogicomo, Andy Ramotnik, and Capt. Bob Buehn on Monday Sept. 4, 2017 at the Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp game at the Baseball Grounds of Jacksonville. (Bob Mack/Florida...
Twelve weeks after its introduction and just eight weeks after Jacksonville’s City Council approved the bill, Mayor Lenny Curry executed a lease agreement Aug. 23 with POW/MIA Memorial Inc. to establish a memorial at Cecil Field to honor POW/MIA service men and women....
The first step to creating a multimillion dollar national memorial on the site of a former jet base on Jacksonville’s Westside is to refurbish a chapel that once held memorial services for pilots who never returned from war. Sam Houston was shocked by what he found a...
