Posts with the tag “veteran”

Today, we recognize Mark Hrudicka for the National Volunteer Week Local Volunteer. Mark is a 22 year veteran of the U.S. Army and KY National Guard. Currently he is a senior with the Murray State University Social Work Department and plans to graduate this May. Mark is serving as an intern with the Pennyrile Area Development District, Area Agency on Aging and Independent Living. He currently spend...  Read More

​The purpose of POW/MIA Recognition Day is to ensure that America remembers to stand behind those who serve and to make sure we do everything we can to account for those who have never returned. Observances of National POW/MIA Recognition Day are held across the country on military installations, ships at sea, state capitols, schools and veterans' facilities. It is traditionally observed on the th...  Read More

​On Wednesday, July 11, 2018 KDVA Commissioner Brigadier General Benjamin Adams presented WWII Veteran and former POW Staff Sgt Dudley Riley the medal the 94-year-old earned but never received. He served in the North Africa Campaign and was captured there.   Riley, a resident of the Joseph “Eddie” Ballard Western Kentucky Veterans Center in Hanson, wrote a book about his experiences before, during...  Read More