The 52-year-old association’s compound off Doc Bennett Road – which includes picnic areas, a memorial garden and office space – was covered in nearly five feet of water at the flooding’s peak.<\/p>\n
Nearby Rockfish Creek, located down a steep embankment from the roughly 20-acre compound, rose 40 feet to flood all but a small chapel and rows of memorial stones, Newman said.<\/p>\n
“It was like a big lake,” he said. “It just surged right in here and flowed back out again.”<\/p>\n
Weeks later, the national organization, which counts roughly 10,000 current and former Green Berets among its members, is still picking up the pieces.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Apparently, a lot of the paper records and artifacts were severely damaged before members could get to the stuff. They estimate that there was about $250,000 worth of damage done by floodwaters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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