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It was in August of last year that a local veterans group first announced plans for a monument honoring Kokomo native Opha May Johnson, the first female U.S. Marine.
A proposed public green space downtown that included doing away with a one block stretch of a downtown road is not going forward as originally proposed.
The proposed memorial for Opha May Johnson, a Kokomo native and the country’s first ever female Marine, will not be placed on the Howard County Courthouse square, but county officials