Ella Sartain, a senior at Hall High School, reads the names of all 24 veterans who attended Hall High School that died during WWII during the Veterans Day re-dedication on Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2025 in the Hall High School auditorium. Sartain is the second scout to dedicate her Eagle service project to the 24 fallen soldiers. She started with the 24 names on Kim Cabodi's boulder and hoped to find a pictures of each soldier and biography information to make a plaques for each tree. She met with her U.S. History teacher, Ms. Carpenter, who helped her throughout the project, including organizing the Hall teachers to bake items in the foods lab to raise bake sale money at her Rip's Chicken fundraiser. As Ella started her research, she soon realized that this task was harder than she initially thought. There was not much information or photos readily available. Ella reached out to the community on Facebook asking for information. 171 shares later, she started to connect with family members who had stories and photos to share. She also traveled to area libraries in Ladd, Cherry, and Spring Valley and found newspaper clippings, town historical books, and helpful librarians. She contacted the Spring Valley and Ladd American Legions, who were also eager to assist. Eventually, with a lot of footwork, emails, phone calls, and networking, Ella was able to find a picture for each man as well as his story. Many of the people and family members who heard about the project offered to donate as well. Ella raised above her initial goal and was able to break ground. She worked with Graphic Electronics in Spring Valley to design the plaques and her scout troop to build the posts. She also had wreath hooks specially designed by metal worker and blacksmith, Jason Joiner. With her extra funds, Ella worked with landscape architect Cara Finney to design a new garden area to enhance the rock. She placed a flagstone path from the existing sidewalk to the rock and purchased two additional benches for the park. A 25th post near the rock has a QR code to this site. Mr. Van Fleet, the tech coordinator at Hall, helped Ella to create this website where all of the information she gathered could be stored. In 2025, the WWII Memorial Park, now on the east side of Hall's campus, got some fresh landscaping and plaque markers for each tree, along with this website, to continue the tribute to the 24 fallen soldiers. These were all part of Ella Sartain's Eagle Scout Service Project. (Scott Anderson)