Our Guard Heroes Governor Helps Unveil Battlefield Cross Memorial in Augusta

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AUGUSTA - Families of Maine soldiers who have died in Iraq and Afghanistan took turns hanging dog tags of their loved ones on a newly unveiled memorial during an emotional ceremony Thursday.

The somber observance took place after Gov. John Baldacci and the adjutant general of the Maine National Guard, Maj. Gen. John Libby, unveiled the Battlefield Cross Memorial. It is a bronze, life-size representation of a rifle pointing downward into the ground, capped by a helmet with boots at the side.

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Our Guard Heroes Governor Helps Unveil Battlefield Cross Memorial in Augusta

Memorials symbolized by the statue become places where surviving members of a fallen soldier's squad gather to rem...

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