Shenandoah City Council members along with city officials held a groundbreaking event for the veterans memorial park April 16.

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In attendance included city officials and a local Freedom chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution and Daughters of the American Revolution. The men served as the color guard for this event.

The $800,000 project was approved by City Council at the March 24 meeting, as previously reported by Community Impact

The park layout will have metal plates for etching the names of city veterans.

Additional park features approved during the meeting included:

• A statue of the “battlefield cross”
• Life-sized soldier steel silhouettes
• Guardrail lighting
• Beacon lights for military flags

The park will also display flags from each military branch as well as the:

• U.S. flag
• Texas flag
• City of Shenandoah flag
• Prisoner of War/Missing in Action flag