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Roanoke Valley Veterans
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OUR ONGOING VISION
We opened November 11, 2008
Where we are today is just a start ! We plan, with your help, to continue this vision.
- We want to continue to honor our veterans and want to be an educational resource to the community.
- We welcome your groups to learn about the brave men and women of our community.
- We want to develop a video library, recording remembrances of local veterans.
- We want to offer veterans guidance and education about benefits they have earned and not be aware of.
- We want to expand the "wall of honor" until all who have served are recognized.
To make this happen we need your support!
The RVVC is now recognized as 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization . This means your contributions to support our veterans are tax deductible !
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MISSION STATEMENT
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The mission of The Roanoke Valley Veterans Center is to pay tribute to the men and women with connections to the Roanoke Valley who have and continue to serve our country. The center will provide a place for ALL veterans to display the photos,stories and memorabilia that are the fabric of their military lives.The center will also be a place that will provide young people with the opportunity to see and hear history come alive through the eyes of the veterans that made that history.
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LOCATION
NEWSLETTERS
OUR GRAND OPENING
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Tim Harris sang "God Bless the USA". Dr. Karl Pittard played "Amazing Grace" on the bagpipes
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Noah Joyner gave an inspiring speech.
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We auctioned autographed CDs and books donated by Lee Greenwood.
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George and Joyce Willis made a generous donation.
We also had a presentation of military lithographs and a ceremonial US flag by Harold Massey . Howard Myrick donated a security system.
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We finished up with an official ribbon cutting.
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OUR JOURNEY
HOW YOU CAN HELP
Everyone can help! No matter what your skills, income level or time demands. You can help!
- We need people to volunteer time to 'man' the center. We will show you everything you need to know to do this
- We need $ donations as the center is run by your donations
- We want your ideas and input about how our veterans can be honored
- We want you to bring your friends and family to the center to see the contributions our veterans have made in the past and continue to make today
- We are now accepting donations of military books, military uniforms or memorabilia. Memorabilia may be taken as donation or on loan to the Roanoke Valley Veterans Center
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VETERAN OF THE MONTH
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The Dallas Jones Roanoke Valley Veterans Center will honor a hero of World War II with its monthly flag ceremony at 10 a.m. Monday at the Center in Becker Village Mall.
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Staff Sgt. Talmage E. Jones was called to serve his nation in January 1941.
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While much of the world was already at war, the United States was still on the sidelines.
Jones would have been home and out of the service in January 1942 except for Pearl Harbor. Instead he would go onto participate in the Allied landings in North Africa in 1942.
In 1944, he was one of the soldiers invading Italy. On October 10, 1944, he was wounded and captured by the Germans. His family would not learn he was still alive for six months.
He re-enlisted after the war and served for 20 years. When he retired from the Army, he returned to North Carolina and Halifax County.
He died a couple of years later when as the county’s animal control officer, his vehicle was involved in a crash.
Born in 1917, Talmage E. Jones was the eldest of the 13 Jones children. One of those youngsters was Dallas Jones, a Pearl Harbor survivor and the founder of the Roanoke Valley Veterans Center. Dallas Jones’ name was added to the title recently by the Center’s board of directors.
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