Kentucky
New historical marker honors Madison Co. Tuskegee Airmen
MADISON COUNTY, Ky. (WKYT) – A brand new historic marker was unveiled in Madison County on Thursday.
It honors all of Madison County’s Tuskegee Airmen.
It’s outdoors of the Richmond Library Department subsequent to a mural of Frank D. Walker.
Governor Beshear attended the reveal in addition to Walker’s daughter, Eve Ballew.
“It’s time. It’s previous time. I want, as fantastic as that is, I want it had occurred earlier than he died when he might’ve loved it as a result of he would’ve liked this. He would’ve been grinning from ear to ear,” Ballew stated.
Together with walker, six different Tuskegee Airmen have been acknowledged and are a part of the historic marker.
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