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BANNERS FOR MILITARY VETERANS from Mount Washington coming soon to GRANDVIEW AVENUE
Andy Kearney, Chaplain for the VFW Post 5111, Mt. Washington with Gordan Davidson, executive director of the Mt. Washington Community Development Corporation and Tom Cusick, president of VFW Post 5111 during the Memorial Day Service on Grandview Ave, Sunday May 29,2022.
Officials representing the city of Pittsburgh, a veterans organization and two civic groups used a Memorial Day service Sunday to usher in a display of banners — beginning in June — honoring those from Mount Washington who served in the military.
The banners with vets’ photos will hang from street poles along Grandview and Virginia avenues in Mount Washington in years to come between Memorial Day and Veterans Day.
Two members of Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 5111 — chaplain Andy Kearney and president Tom Cusick — announced that after 20 years of efforts, veteran families in the neighborhood overlooking Downtown can celebrate that banners will wave above the city very soon.
“We will have banners going up on Mount Washington starting next month, just like you see in other suburbs,” Mr. Cusick said at the Memorial Day service at the war memorial outside the Duquesne Incline on Grandview Avenue in Mount Washington. He said making it happen wasn’t easy.
“Getting the paperwork through in the city of Pittsburgh was a little bit tougher than a borough,” Mr. Cusick said.
In addition to Post 5111, two members of the Mount Washington Community Development Corporation — executive director Gordon Davidson and Tom Tighe — were also involved in the banner project.
“Today, I am so excited to say we will finally have the banners with our veterans on Grandview Avenue, and I want to thank the MWCDC and the Neighbors on the Mount and MWCDC’s Tom Tighe who helped cut through all the red tape to make sure the veterans were honored,” Pittsburgh City Council President Theresa Kail-Smith said.
Regarding who will be displayed on the banners, Mr. Cusick said, “We will start with active members here and pictures of guys who have been working on this the past 20 years and have passed away while waiting, including veterans Al Brusco from the Brusco-Falvo Funeral Home, Al Young and Jimmy Nolan.”
Also going up will be four Mount Washington residents who were killed in action in the Vietnam War.
Jack Wagner, a former state auditor general and City Council president who was wounded in combat as a Marine, also served as a guest speaker at the ceremony.
Pointing to the obelisk that stands outside of the Duquesne Incline and is engraved with the names of service members, he highlighted those who had given their lives for their country.
“If it wasn’t for the people who put their life on the line for our country, we would not be here,” he said. “Look no further than Ukraine, where [an outside] dictator and an authoritarian government [want] to control the people, and that is what our veterans have fought against since the inception of this country.
“So when you are at a picnic, make a toast to those who have served our country — especially those who made the ultimate sacrifice.”
Post 5111 is currently raising funds for the banner installation, which Mr. Cusick said is costly.
“Being recognized is important, especially for the families of those who have passed,” he said.
Vietnam veterans from Post 5111 performed the gun salute for each name of service members who were killed in action. This was followed by the playing of taps to conclude the ceremony.
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