Ribbon cutting marks opening of Virginia War Memorial expansion - Feb. 29, 2020

Several hundred people including Gold Star families and national, state and local leaders attend the dedication day and grand opening of the Virginia War Memorial’s new C. Kenneth Wright Pavilion and the Shrine of Memory for the Global War on Terrorism and Beyond Feb. 29, 2020, in Richmond, Virginia. Virginia Secretary of Veterans and Defense Affairs Carlos Hopkins gave remarks during the event, and Maj. Gen. Timothy P. Williams, the Adjutant General of Virginia, recited In Flanders Fields. Gold Star parents helped perform the ceremonial ribbon cutting, including Vic Mason, father of Virginia National Guard Soldier Sgt. Nicholas Mason, who was killed in Iraq in 2004. Read more at vaguard.dodlive.mil/remember_the_fallen/