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New Purple Heart Monument Dedicated in Holton

By Greg Bebermeyer

05/05/2017

( from 2nd Battalion, 130th Field Artillery)

(KNZA)--A monument honoring Jackson County’s Purple Heart Medal recipients was dedicated Saturday morning.

The ceremony took place at Holton’s Linscott Park located at 4th and Iowa Street, with the unveiling of the newly construction monument.

Colonel Thomas Burke, commander of the Manhattan-based Kansas National Guard’s 130th Field Artillery Brigade, was the keynote speaker at the dedication ceremony.

Fundraising for the memorial was spearheaded by the American Legion Riders of Post 44, Mary L. Bair American Legion Post 44, Sons of the American Legion and Holton Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1367.

The monument includes a replica of the Purple Heart on the front and a list of the medal’s recipients on the back. Currently, the list includes 166 names.

The Purple Heart Medal is awarded to members of the armed forces who have been wounded or killed in action.

Holton was designated as a Purple Heart City in April 2014, only the second community in Kansas to receive the designation. The town was entered into the national register of Purple Heart cities and recognized by the Military Order of the Purple Heart, a federally-chartered fraternal organization authorized by Congress.

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