Groveport, OH — After 10 years in the making, a new wing opened at Motts Military Museum over Memorial Day weekend — doubling the size of the current exhibition space.
At 10 a.m. May 23, Groveport residents living near the museum at 5075 S. Hamilton Road were treated to a fly-over and then a landing of a Vietnam War-era Huey helicopter carrying several of the dignitaries invited to participate in the ceremony.
Double Medal of Honor recipient Ron Rosser and D-Day paratrooper Don Jakeway, who was one of the first to land on the beaches of Normandy for that World War II action, joined museum founder Warren Motts to cut the ribbon in front of a crowd of more than 400.
“This ceremony is to honor people who served in the wars from Korea through Iraqi Freedom, and I tell you, all of those people are the ones who should be up here on stage,” Motts said. “You look around at this crowd, and then at what we’ve accomplished, and it is pretty fantastic.”
According to Motts, construction of the museum’s new wing was prompted by the donation of a 10-panel Ohio Vietnam Memorial Wall, upon which Barbara Wright hand-lettered the name of every Ohio soldier who was killed in the Vietnam War.
“I didn’t have anywhere to put it, so we built the museum around it,” Motts said.
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