Veterans 'spring clean' along highway
Daniel Martynowicz
Veteran and Mission Valley Honor Guard member Bill Blood freshens up memorial crosses along U.S. Highway 93. Along with fellow honor guard members J.C. Courville and Homer Courville, Blood spent Saturday afternoon driving up and down U.S. Highway 93 performing yearly maintenance on crosses that mark fatal accident sites.
Daniel Martynowicz
J.C. Courville, a local veteran and member of the Mission Valley Honor Guard repaints a white cross that marks the site of a fatal accident. He said that while the idea has been taken up by other states around the nation, veterans in Montana were the first to build, plant and maintain these markers. The crosses serve to remember the departed and remind motorists to drive carefully.
