MARLBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) - A Massachusetts city is naming a new elementary school and two new ballfields after fallen veterans from the community.
Marlborough city councilors recently voted to name the $56 million elementary school after brothers Theodore, Andrew and Charles Goodnow, who were all killed during the Civil War, according to the MetroWest Daily News.
Councilors also approved naming the softball field at Marlborough High School after Richard Demers, a Marine killed during the Vietnam War in July 1966, and the baseball field at Whitcomb Middle School after Harold Cole, who died in a plane crash in May 1951 while serving in the Naval Reserves.
The Goodnow brothers are buried at Rocklawn Cemetery in town.
A memorial to the three brothers is expected to be prominently displayed inside the school, which is scheduled to open next month.
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