About 20 people are expected at an Iraq War vigil tonight on Signal Mountain.
Leslie Bell, a mountain resident, said she organized the event as a chance to pause and reflect on those who have died or been injured during the conflict.
“We’re five years into this war, and we’ve lost 4,000 soldiers and who knows how many Iraqis. Thirty-thousand troops have been badly injured,” Ms. Bell said. “I think now is the time to stand quietly and remember them and think about this war.”
The event starts at 7:45 p.m. at the park in front of the Signal Mountain town pool at 1111 Ridgeway Ave. The vigil is expected to last about an hour.
For complete details, see Thursday’s Chattanooga Times Free Press.
Adam Crisp covers education issues for the Times Free Press. He joined the paper's staff in 2007 and initially covered crime, public safety, courts and general assignment topics. Prior to Chattanooga, Crisp was a crime reporter at the Savannah Morning News and has been a reporter and editor at community newspapers in southeast Georgia. In college, he led his student paper to a first-place general excellence award from the Georgia College Press Association. He earned ...
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