Fallen Marine’s mom: We will rebuild memorial lost to flood
SANFORD, Mich. (AP) — The mother of a Marine who was killed in Iraq is pledging to rebuild a war memorial that was destroyed by a dam failure in central Michigan.
“I sat there and cried,†Kim Burgess said after visiting the scene in Sanford last week. “I just felt like I had let our veterans down. I know it wasn’t my fault. I just feel like I worked so hard to give them something, and it was just destroyed.â€
The Sanford Flagpole Monument was washed away by the Tittabawassee River when the Sanford dam failed during steady rain last week.
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