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Florence is the county seat of Lauderdale County Alabama in the northwestern corner of the state. According to the 2010 Census,
the city's population was 39,319. Native Americans settled the area which includes the Tennessee River.
Florence is the largest and principal city of the Metropolitan Statistical Area known as "The Shoals" (which includes Muscle Shoals,
Sheffield, and Tuscumbia metropolitan areas in Colbert and Lauderdale counties. Florence is considered the primary economic hub of
northwestern Alabama.
Florence is renowned for its annual tourism events.
Landmarks in Florence include the Lauderdale County Vietnam Memorial Plaque
with the 33 names of men with ties to Lauderdale County who made the ultimate sacrifice for America.
The names of inscribed on the plaque above are:
Left Side
- PFC Jimmie Rex Ball, Army, Rogersville, 28 May 1966
- 1LT Chadwick Mc Fall Barber, Army, Florence, 8 January 1969
- PFC Howard Wayne Bramlett, Jr, Army, Florence, 30 December, 1970
- SSG Paul O'neal Brown, Army, Florence, 20 November 1966
- SP4 Edward Lee Brock, Army, Florence, 6 May 1968
- PFC Roger Jerrel Bryant, USMC, Florence, 12 November 1966
- CPL Virgil Lee Castle, Army, Florence (Father there), 9 August 1969
- 1LT Phillip Don Childers, Army, Florence, 28 May 1965
- PVT Samuel Earl Coker, Army, Florence, 14 November 1965
- MAJ Thomas Wayne Cotton, Army, Brilliant, 13 December 1967
- SP4 Charles Edward Cox, Army, Lexington, 17 November 1965
- 1LT James Larry Evans, Army, Florence, 22 March 1967
- SP4 Joel Wayne Forrester, Army, Florence, 19 May 1969
- 1LT Richard J. Glenn, Army, Florence, 8 February 1968
- CPL Jerry Dwain Hill, Army,Lexington, 14 November 1968
- PFC James Dale Hodges, Army, Florence, 25 May 1968
Right Side
- SP4 Alfred Willie Hubbard, Army, Florence, 4 July 1969
- SGT Jerry Reed Johnson, Army, Killen, 29 May, 1970
- SP4 Albert Junior Jones, Army, Rogersville, 24 June 1969
- 2LT Felix DeLoach King, Jr, Army, Florence, 6 November 1965
- 1LT Robert Burton Lecates, Army, Florence, 21 May 1971
- CPL Larry Luster, USMC, Detroit MI, Florence (Burial) 9 July 1969
- LCPL George Thomas Mangrum, USMC, Rogersville, 29 June 1967
- SP4 Robert Lee Mc Caig, Army, Florence, 8 May 1966
- PFC Danny Albert Mc Gee, USMC Florence, 14 December 1968
- PFC James Daniel Mc Kelvey, Army, Florence, 27 May 1968
- PFC William Newton Mc Murtrey, Army, Killen, 24 August 1968
- SP4 Don Leslise Michael, Army, Lexington, 8 April 1967
- SGT Donald Lee Montgomery, Army, Cloverdale, 3 October 1968
- PFC John Runyon Neary, Army, Odessa, TX 1 May 1968
- SGT Charles Terry Russell, Army, Florence, 21 January 1970
- PVT Jimmy Lee Thompson, Army, Osterville MA, 5 May 1970
- CPT Gary Frank Wallace, Army, Killen, 20 July 1967
- - The Virtual Wall, June 26, 2013
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