Fundraising underway to replace medallions on veterans’ graves

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By Stan Maddux

Funds are being raised to replace more than 300 missing and damaged bronze medallions taken from the graves of veterans at a local cemetery.

More than 50 were discovered missing at Patton Cemetery at 1401 Rumely St. last year, but that number has swelled to about 330.

James Hiles, financial officer for American Legion Post 83 in LaPorte, said some of the medallions were on graves of veterans dating back to the Revolutionary War.

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