KEEDYSVILLE - Taking time out from all of the activities Saturday at the Keedysville Ruritan Club Festival, town resident Laurel McFarland paused for moment at the newly restored monument honoring Vietnam and Korean war veterans.
"I'm delighted that it's back," McFarland said, noting there are Korean War veterans in her family.
But even more, she expressed her pride in the efforts of the Keedysville Ruritan Club to restore the memorial to its original condition after vandals did a lot of damage several years ago.
"The Keedysville Ruritan Club does wonderful things," McFarland said.
Those words made Ruritan member Robert Merrell feel a lot better, since a planned ceremony to rededicate the monument didn't occur as planned.
"Call it miscommunication or technical difficulties, the ceremony isn't going to happen," Merrell said, obviously disappointed.
A member of the Ruritan citizenship/patriotism committee, Merrell said the club had been in possession of the sundial, which had been torn from the stone memorial by the vandals.