A plaque paying tribute to Army Capt. Anthony Palermo Jr. is scheduled to be unveiled at City Hall Plaza on Monday after the city's annual Memorial Day Parade.
Captain Anthony Palermo's Memorial plaque was mounted and dedicated today in conjunction with the Memorial Day observance in Brockton, Massachusetts.BROCKTON, Mass. (AP) — The city of Brockton is honoring a local soldier killed in Iraq.
A plaque paying tribute to Army Capt. Anthony Palermo Jr. is scheduled to be unveiled at City Hall Plaza on Monday after the city's annual Memorial Day Parade.
Veterans services agent David Farrell tells The Enterprise of Brockton the plaque was designed by the family with the costs divided between the city and Palermo's family and friends.
The plaque will be displayed in City Hall next to the names of other Brockton residents killed in the nation's service.
Palermo and two other soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb in Baghdad in April 2006. He was 26.
The 1998 Brockton High graduate died just weeks before his wife gave birth to a son.