Soldiers with the 429th Concrete Platoon, 105th Engineer Battalion, 130th Manuever Enhancement Brigade, spread concrete as it is being pored into a form near an entrance to the North Carolina National Guard’s Joint Force Headquarters Complex in Raleigh, North Carolina on June 8, 2017. The Soldiers were completing the construction project, which will later hold a Gold Star Family Memorial Monument. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Mary Junell, 382nd Public Affairs Detachment/Released)
RALEIGH, N.C. – North Carolina National Guardsmen are spending their annual training preparing a location for a Gold Star Family Memorial Monument in Raleigh, North Carolina, June 2-16, 2017.
The memorial will be located out side an access gate to the North Carolina National Guard’s (NCNG) Joint Force Headquarters.
The memorial will consist of four granite stones featuring a cut out of a saluting Service Member and a Gold Star. It will sit on a circular slab of concrete with a curved sidewalk, a more decorative shape than the Soldiers of the 429th Concrete Platoon, 105th Engineer Battalion, 130th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade are used to working with.
“It’s definitely nothing I’ve ever done before,” said Sgt....
