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Monuments and Memorials Committee <br /> Minutes of Meeting <br /> January 15, 2020 <br /> Reed Room, Town Office Building <br /> Attendance <br /> Sam Doran, Chair; members Linda Dixon and Bebe Fallick; staff liaison Gina Rada, Director of <br /> Veterans Services for Lexington/Bedford; Suzie Barry, liaison to Select Board; guests George Gamota <br /> and George Burnell of the WWII Commemoration Committee; and guest Gary Fallick. <br /> Recognition of Lexingtonians Who Died in Service in World War II <br /> George Gamota updated the committee since his presentation at its meeting in May 2019. A Citizen <br /> World War II Commemoration Committee has been formed and is well underway in planning for <br /> multiple events during 2020. On November 13, 2019, the Commemoration Committee voted <br /> unanimously to recommend the installation of a plaque bearing the names of the 59 fallen <br /> Lexingtonians in Cary Hall. George presented this proposal to the Select Board on December 16, <br /> 2019. The Board was open to the proposal but requested a recommendation from the Monuments and <br /> Memorials Committee before they would formally consider it. The plaque would be paid for from <br /> private funds. <br /> The members agreed that this proposal deserved their support, but there needed to be some guidelines <br /> included in their recommendation. After further discussion, the members reached consensus on the <br /> following: <br /> The Monuments and Memorials Committee recommends the Select Board approve and <br /> authorize the placement of a plaque in the Cary Memorial Building with the names of 59 <br /> Lexingtonians, all residents of Lexington at the time of their enlistment, who died in service in <br /> World War II and that such plaque be installed in the Cary Memorial Building to serve as an <br /> appropriate companion piece to the existing World War I plaque and that said plaque be of <br /> comparable design, materials, and scale to the existing World War I plaque. The Committee <br /> further endorses the goal of placing a temporary "placeholder"plaque as part of the Memorial <br /> Day 2020 observance, with the formal dedication of the finished plaque to be held on Veterans <br /> Day, November 11, 2020. <br /> The meeting adjourned at 7:50 p.m. <br /> Submitted by <br /> Linda Dixon <br />