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Alvin W. Duncan, the executive director of Kentucky Veterans Services, will be the keynote speaker for a Memorial Day service Monday at Kentucky Veterans Cemetery-West in Hopkinsville. It will begin at 7 a.m.
An Army veteran, Duncan was a combat engineer who served at several installations in the U.S. and overseas in Panama, Germany, Iraq and Korea. He retired in 2006 as a master sergeant with 23 years of service. In his last assignment, he was the senior military instructor for ROTC at the University of Kentucky.
Duncan was the branch manager of Kentucky Veterans Cemetery-North in Williamstown north of Lexington and later became assistant director of the Division of State Veterans Cemeteries in the Kentucky Department of Veterans Affairs. He was named executive director of Kentucky Veteran Services in April. He resides in Lexington.
More than a decade of diligent work and patient waiting will soon be rewarded for the local, state and federal leaders who have pursued one of southcentral Kentuckyâs top priorities: the establishment of a nursing home for military veterans.
Those leaders are celebrating the recent approval by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs of $19.5 million in federal funding for the building of the Bowling Green Veterans Center. Aside from actual construction, this approval was the final major hurdle to clear in order for the facility to become a brick-and-mortar reality.
The total price tag for the facility is $30 million, and advocates such as Ray Biggerstaff â who was a captain of a medevac unit during the Vietnam War and later spent 30 years teaching in the Department of Health and Safety at Western Kentucky University â previously worked to secure $10.5 million from the Kentucky General Assembly. That left a balance of $19.5 million, which had to be approved by the VA.
The Bowling Green Daily News on the recent approval of federal funding for a new nursing home for military veterans:
More than a decade of diligent work and patient waiting will soon be rewarded for the local, state and federal leaders who have pursued one of southcentral Kentucky’s top priorities: the establishment of a nursing home for military veterans.
Those leaders are celebrating the recent approval by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs of $19.5 million in federal funding for the building of the Bowling Green Veterans Center. Aside from actual construction, this approval was the final major hurdle to clear in order for the facility to become a brick-and-mortar reality.
On Friday, as the General Assembly wrapped up its final full week of meeting this year, the legislative calendar made one thing clear: Time is drawing short to resolve a