Kentucky National Guard Memorial status update briefing

1. Honoring Their Sacrifice
Kentucky National Guard Memorial
Status Brief as of: 25 May 2015

2. Mission
• To identify Kentucky Guard men and women who
died in the line of duty from 1912 to present;
• To design, construct and maintain a memorial in
their honor --- creating a sacred space for
families, friends, and brothers in arms to honor
those who have fallen
• Educate the public for generations to come about
the timeless principles of honor, duty and
sacrifice for: home and family; community and
Commonwealth; and the nation.
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3. Mission Status
• Identify fallen – Perpetual
• Design - Complete
• Construction - Complete
• Maintain – Perpetual
• Public education – Perpetual
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4. The names of
233 men and
women who
have fallen in
the line of
duty since
1912 are now
inscribed on
the Memorial.
Finding the Fallen

5. • The vision of creating a memorial to honor
Kentucky National Guardsmen grew out of
tragedy.
• In April 2004 as the Guard community struggled
with the losses in Iraq; Sergeant Glenn Scott
Stanfill on a training mission here in Kentucky
and First Lieutenant Robert L. Henderson, II in
Iraq—all in a period of a few weeks.
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6. • Further evidence of the public’s fleeting memory
of the fallen continued to crop up with the
discovery of other forgotten losses such as
Kentucky Guardsman Sergeant Thomas J. Brown
who died on state active duty responding to the
great flood of 1937.
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7. Telling the Stories of the Fallen
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8. • Sergeant Darrin K. Potter
• Glenn Scott Stanfill
• First Lieutenant Robert L. Henderson, II
• Sergeant Thomas J. Brown
• Staff Sergeant Regina L. Isenberg
• Captain Roger Moss Sanders
• Sergeant James Alexander Sherrill
Just a few examples
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9. • Sergeant Darrin K. Potter, 24, of Louisville,
Jefferson, County, Kentucky, was killed in
Iraq on 29 September 2003. Potter was a
member of a military police team in a four-
vehicle convoy responding to reports of a
mortar attack outside of Baghdad near Abu
Ghraib Prison, in Iraq. Potter was a member
of the 223rd Military Police Company serving
with the 800th Military Police Brigade in Iraq.
• Sergeant Potter was the Kentucky Guard's
first combat-related death since the Vietnam
War.
Sergeant Darrin K. Potter
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10. • Sergeant Glenn Scott Stanfill of Perry County,
Kentucky, sustained fatal injuries when the
HUMMWV (M998) he was driving was struck
by a tractor-trailer on the Hal Rogers Parkway
just East of Manchester, Kentucky on 12
March 2004. Sergeant Stanfill was in route to
the East Kentucky Training Site EKTS-A
(Artemus) with B Company 206th Engineer
Battalion, Hazard, Kentucky Army National
Guard as part of a Battalion Field Training
Exercise (FTX).
Sergeant Glenn Scott Stanfill
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11. • First Lieutenant Robert Lewis. Henderson, II,
33, of Alvaton, Warren County, Kentucky,
died 17 April 2004 in, Diwaniyah, Iraq, when
his convoy tried to avoid an overturned trailer
and came under small arms attack.
Henderson, though mortally wounded,
continued to drive his vehicle and lead the
convoy out of the ambush and repositioned
his vehicle so that the other soldiers in the
vehicle could return fire before he collapsed.
First Lieutenant Henderson was assigned to
the Army National Guard's Detachment
First Lieutenant Robert L.
Henderson II
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12. • Sergeant Thomas J. "Tommy" Brown of
Madisonville, Hopkins County, Kentucky, age
34, drowned in the Pond River at
approximately 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, 23
January 1937 while on state active duty in
response to the flood of 1937 near Jewel City
in nine feet of flood water. He was assigned
to Headquarters Company, 3rd Battalion of
the 149th Infantry from Madisonville. He is
the only known Kentucky National
Guardsman who perished on duty during the
great flood of 1937. Brown was a butcher in
civilian life at the Red Front Grocery then on
West Center Street in Madisonville and was
married and had one son.
Sergeant Thomas J. Brown
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13. • Staff Sergeant Regina L. Isenberg of Bowling Green,
Warren County, Kentucky, was killed in a military
vehicle accident on Tuesday, 10 April 1990 on the
Western Kentucky Parkway near Leitchfield in Grayson
County. She was assigned to Headquarters, State Area
Command (STARC) Kentucky Army National Guard.
She was transporting an M-60 Tank engine from the
Ford Regional Training Center (WHFRTC) to the
Combined Support Maintenance Shop (CSMS) in
Frankfort in an engineer dump truck on rain slick
roads. Isenberg graduated from Warren Central High
School in 1978 and joined the 2123rd Transportation
Company (Heavy Truck), Kentucky Army National
Guard in Bowling Green in February 1981.
Staff Sergeant Regina L.
Isenberg
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14. • Captain Roger Moss Sanders, 31, of Louisville,
Jefferson County, Kentucky, died on 14
September 1971 when the RF-101 “Voodoo” he
was piloting crashed shortly after takeoff. He
was able to eject but did not survive his
injuries. Sanders was taking off simultaneously
with another aircraft as part of a night refueling
exercise. The other aircraft landed safely.
Sanders was born in Louisiana. He graduated
from Frankfort High and the University of
Kentucky with a Bachelor’s in civil engineering.
Sanders was a manager with Bell Telephone.
Sanders enlisted in as photo helper rising to the
rank of Airman 3rd Class before he accepted a
commission.
Captain Roger Moss Sanders
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15. • Sergeant James Alexander Sherrill, 27, of
Ekron, Meade County, Kentucky, was killed
Sunday 3 April 2005, in Bayji, Iraq, when his
armored medium truck encountered an
Improvised Explosive Device (IED). Sherrill
was assigned to the Army National Guard's
2113th Transportation Company, Paducah,
Kentucky. His unit mobilized for Operation
Iraqi Freedom in
Sergeant James Alexander
Sherrill
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16. EDUCATIONAL INFORMATION
On Site & Online
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25. FINAL THOUGHTS &
QUESTIONS
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