Thanks to the Hometown Heroes Banners project run by Anne Henning-Scheuring, wife of veteran Edward G. Scheuring, banners featuring local veterans are on display along Main Street and elsewhere in Lansdale Borough, writes Caitlin McMorrow for The Reporter.
The two-by-four-foot banners are double-sided and feature pictures and names of veterans from Lansdale who took part in conflicts from the Global War on Terror as far back as the Civil and Spanish-American wars. The banners will stay up through November, after which they will be stored for the winter, and then displayed again next May.
Henning-Scheuring got the idea from a similar project in Wayne Township. After having presented the Hometown Heroes Banners to borough council, she was given the green light to start the project in March.
The cost of a banner is $100; however, Henning-Scheuring and her husband have sponsored several families who could not afford it.
“It just looked so patriotic. I said, ‘Lansdale needs that. We don’t have enough patriotism,’” said Henning-Scheuring. “Veterans don’t get enough honor. And they need that.”
Read more about the banner project in The Reporter by clicking here.
