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[ Vol. 4, No. 43 ]
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[ September 12, 2019 ]
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world wars, the Korean war, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan who were killed in action. Altogether, there are 118 names on the memorials. They are now illuminated at night for the first time. One of the people who helped celebrate the occasion had an especially personal connection both to the names on the monuments and the monuments themselves. The name of Ellis Grayson’s brother, Welby Herbert Grayson III, is on the Vietnam War memorial, and her family was there when that monument was unveiled in 1988. Grayson said with the monuments lit up at night, she now feels there is a 24/7 honor and recognition for Loudoun’s fallen soldiers, airmen, Marines, and
The Loudoun County Sheriff ’s Office has obtained a criminal charge for reckless handling of a firearm after another target shooting incident in which errant rounds caused damage on nearby properties. This time, a woman was injured. On Sunday afternoon, deputies were called to a scene were a woman had been struck by a bullet outside her home. They determined the shots were fired from a nearby property on Gable Farm Lane east of Hamilton where residents were target shooting on private property. The bullet, which is estimated to have been shot from 1,800 to 2,000 feet away, grazed the woman’s shoulder and may have then ricocheted off the victim’s house. She was treated at the scene and did not require further medical treatment. According to the Sheriff ’s Office, two adult males and two adult females were shooting into a natural berm. One person has been charged, but as of Tuesday afternoon, the Sheriff ’s Office had not released their names pending service of the charge. The Sheriff ’s Office has custody of all the firearms that were in use at the private shooting range. It is only the latest is a series of incidents in which bullets from target shooting ranges have left the shooter’s property and struck somewhere else, including an incident in late 2018 in which fully automatic weapon fire struck homes in Willowsford. At two of those houses, people were home. One family was outside, and one person lying on the couch holding his baby when a bullet struck nearby. The Board of Supervisors has so far declined to enact tighter restrictions on where guns can be fired in Loudoun, and the Sheriff ’s Office and Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office have not obtained any convictions in the recent target shooting incidents. Supervisors last year sought recommendations from a gun safety work-
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Members of the Veterans of Foreign War Post 1177 last Friday participate in a ceremony illuminating the monuments to people from Loudoun who died in war on the Loudoun County courthouse lawn.
Courthouse War Monuments Illuminated BY RENSS GREENE The stone monuments to Loudouners who have died in battle were illuminated for the first time at a ceremony Friday, Sept. 6. Retired Loudoun County Circuit Court Judge and Loudoun County War Memorials Trust Fund Chairman Thomas D. Horne said the new lights add to what already is a special place. “I invite you, sometime, in the calm of the day, in the calm of your life, to think, that we live in a world of turmoil and trouble and tribulation,” he said. “Maybe just sit on one of those benches, watch the sun set slowly in the wet, see the long shadows gather underneath those monuments, think about the people who gave their lives.” The memorials honor veterans of both
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Retired Loudoun County Circuit Court Judge Thomas Horne speaks during the illumination ceremony last Friday for the monuments to people from Loudoun who died in war on the Loudoun County courthouse lawn.
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