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VFW launches ‘Wall of Honor’ to permanently display medals

Retired Army Maj. Bob Johnson shows a shadowbox containing his medals from miiltary service. The Hedrick-Rhodes VFW Post 5206 is introducing the Henderson County Wall of Honor on Saturday.

When he was gathering stories for Natural Born Heroes, his book about the experiences of dozens of World War II veterans who lived in Haywood Knolls, Bob Johnson noticed a similarity about the mementoes the men and women brought home from the war.

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