Sunday, July 22, 2012

Bridge Named In Honor Of Fallen Soldier

{Huntington, West Virginia}...After 43 years, the late Pfc. Herbert B. Murphy was honored Saturday when a bridge on 29th Street near 8th Avenue in Huntington was formally named the Herbert Burgess Murphy Memorial Bridge Saturday. Murphy left the former Huntington East High School at the age of 17 to join the Marine Corps and served in Vietnam. He was killed during the war. His name is among the thousands of others on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial wall in Washington, D.C.