MEDINA, N.Y. (AP) - As the nation marks the 100th anniversary of the U.S. entrance into World War I, a western New York community is looking to restore its 80-year-old memorial to local soldiers who died fighting in the Great War.
Officials in the Orleans County village of Medina (meh-DYE’-nuh) have launched an effort to raise $40,000 to restore the World War I Memorial.
The memorial was dedicated in 1935 and features a 1916 British heavy artillery piece. The field gun was used on the Western Front in France in 1917-18 and later acquired for the memorial.
Village officials say the gun is only one of 10 of that type known to survive. They hope to send the cannon to a business in Altoona, Pennsylvania, that specializes in reproducing and restoring historic artillery pieces.
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