2014 Year In Review
2014 Wreaths Across the Grove – View photos here
The Friends’ 1st Wreaths Across the Grove was a success!
Families and community groups donated and placed wreaths in the Grove.
AOH Division 39 donated & placed 16 wreaths in the Grove.
Devon 50 donated the remaining 30+ wreaths needed to provide every state in the Grove with a wreath.
Devon 50 and members of the Friends Board placed the wreaths throughout the Grove as well as on other memorials on the Freedoms Foundation campus.
2014 Grove Cleanups – View photos here
11/7/14 Special thanks to the Peco Gas Operators for their volunteer day in the Grove in November.
11/1/14 Fall Cleanup About 15 folks showed up for our wet and dreary cleanup this morning. Thanks to Davids Drive 831 for the trailer & truck, Joe Sullivan for his truck and Ed Hennessey and daughter April for the making 2 trips to the compost site for us.
The rest of the crew worked on edging the new roadway with soil. Thanks to Elaine Matt for handling the gatehouse.
We got a lot accomplished today. Thanks to all.
8/16/14 Today 15 members of the Chester County, Delaware County, Montgomery County and Maryland AOH answered the AOH call. They attached 250 recipients name tags to ground stakes in 1 1/2 hours.
5/9/14 Special Thanks to PECO for their continued work in installing the remaining ground plaques into the MoH Grove. We are moving closer to having all the recipients’ names represented.
4/13/14 The Friends of the MoH Grove thank all who came out today for the Spring Cleanup. We had a record turnout of over 80 volunteers!
2014 Summer Update – View photos here
July 22-24, 2014 Friends of the Medal of Honor Grove Make History The Friends of the Medal of Honor Grove announce an important enhancement in the Grove. For the first time in its history, there is now a paved road along the Hawaii and Alaska acres at the far end of the Grove. These back acres were often overlooked by visitors and viewed as a wooded area. This new roadway will now allow the public to enjoy the Grove in its entirety on paved roadway. Visit the Hawaii acre and be greeted by the lava rocks placed at the walkway when the obelisk was added to the Grove. Read more
For the Friends 3rd consecutive year, the Friends have worked on the roadway. This year, a roadway was added.
2014 Donations
November 19, 2014
PHOENIXVILLE – Greg Cary, Vice Chair of the Friends of the Medal of Honor Grove, on behalf of the board, accepted a check for $650 from the Valley Forge Chapter of the Military Officers Association of America on Saturday November 15th. The Valley Forge Chapter covers an area including Delaware and Chester counties, as well as portions of Bucks and Montgomery counties. Its residents live in Exton, Downingtown, Pottstown, Phoenixville, Norristown, Conshohocken, West Chester, Newtown Square, King of Prussia, and the Western Main Line from Bryn Mawr through Paoli.
This donation will go toward the cost of the ground plaques for the newly awarded 2014 Medal of Honor Recipients to be installed in 2015.
This MOAA fundraising initiative was spearheaded by the late Don Stout. In addition to being an MOAA board member, Don was also a faithful supporter and volunteer of the Friends of the Medal of Honor Grove and will be missed.
