There will soon be a new memorial at Science Hill High School to honor alumni who have fallen in battle, and officials at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center Friday honored those it serves prior to this Veterans Day, which is Sunday.

A ceremony was held Friday morning at the location where the memorial will be on the campus of the high school. At least 50 people attended the somber occasion.

Theresa Billings was instrumental in getting the memorial placed.

She began work on the project about a year and a half ago by contacting Jenny Brock, Johnson City School Board member, and they started this project thinking there would be a lot of money to raise, but many businesses contributed to the effort.

Billings son is a major in the Marine Corps and also a 1994 graduate of the school.

So, yes, were a military family and it makes it even more dear to us, Billings said.

Thirty-eight names will be on a wall that will be included in the memorial. The area will be known as Alumni Memorial Circle. Each class will decide what to add to the area, but certainly there will be landscaping and pavers that match the school building in addition to the wall.

This memorial will honor fallen Science Hill veterans and will be located around the flagpole in the commons area between the schools old office and auditorium. Names of veterans will be etched in panels attached to brick walls that will surround the flagpole, which will feature an alumni flag that will fly under the American flag.

Science Hills JROTC will monitor the area.

Brock said she was already looking for a project to bring the alumni of Science Hill together when Billings approached her with this idea.

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SHHS, VAMC pay tribute to veterans