Editorial: Romulus Veteran’s Monument finally going back up

The Veteran’s Monument next to the 34th District Court in Romulus is finally being reconstructed. Workers were on site a few weeks back putting in place the 502 engraved bricks that had been stored and working in some new bricks that had been sold recently.
The monument was taken apart and stored in a building before the ground-breaking took place for the new court building more than seven years ago. Since then there has been no Veteran’s Monument on the city campus in Romulus.
A while back, there was some digging and a floppy orange fence was erected, behind the Romulus City sign across the parking lot from the court. The grass grew up. Then a pile of bricks was delivered. More waiting. More grass.
Finally there is forward movement and the wall of veterans’ bricks is erected and the sitting wall installed. A large cement piece was put in place and cement will be poured for a walkway and then the flagpole.
Once everything is ready, a ribbon-cutting ceremony will be set and a city official said that celebration is expected to be this year.
When we think of the young men and women who this country sent off to war, we want them to know their efforts are appreciated by us here at home. That memorial should not have been allowed to be hidden for so many years, especially with families having paid to have their loved ones’ names engraves to honor them.
Romulus has the banners hanging along its main street with pictures of local veterans on them and that is wonderful. Special attention is given to veterans’ graves in the city’s cemetery. Now the city needs to get the monument in place. It’s taken ‘way too long.