LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Volunteers and members of the National Association of Black Veterans held a ceremony Saturday at Greenwood Cemetery to honor Black veterans buried there, as restoration work at the cemetery continues more than a decade after it began.
Greenwood Cemetery is the resting place of hundreds of veterans and thousands of civilians. Volunteers said the cemetery had been neglected for years before cleanup efforts began.
“There was refrigerators, dryers, washers that had been dumped in here,” Mike King, a Vietnam veteran with Greenwood Cemetery Community Partners, said. “People were treated like a dump. Tires. We removed a substantial number of tires and eight or 10 dumpsters full of debris.”…