MILITARY NOTEBOOK
Submarine veterans to complete memorial
By JOSHUA NORMAN jdnorman@sunherald.com
The U.S. Submarine Veterans Inc. and the Submarine Veterans of WorldWar II in Mississippi will put into place the final piece of theMississippi Submarine Memorial in Ocean Springs at 10 a.m. Aug. 29.
The final piece is the Tullibee Base “Eternal Patrol” stone designedby Al Hammond of Gautier. The memorial is intended to pay respects tothe submariners lost and all the members of the Tullibee Base USSVI,said C. L. Harvey, USSVI Tullibee Base Commander.
The memorial originally was built nearly a decade ago, but Hurricane Katrina destroyed it.
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