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SHANKSVILLE, Pa. – There aren’t enough utility poles in Shanksville Borough to hang all 133 new military banners in town.

The banners bearing the military portraits of Shanksville’s veterans and active duty servicemen and women will also soar over roads about a half-mile outside of town in neighboring areas. 

“For a small town, we have a lot of heroes,” Peggy Reese said as she looked around the Shanksville Community Grove tennis courts Saturday, where the banners were displayed before the work to hang them around town starts Monday. 

Reese and her siblings Rick Lambert, Patty Will, Vanessa Gardener, Tim Lambert and Russ Lambert stood in front of a banner depicting their father, Cpl. Russell J. Lambert, who was in an Army Jeep that was shot at during the Korean War so he and his fellow soldiers took cover in a ditch, they said. 

Kathie Shaffer, one of the organizers of the project, saw Jim Hillegass arrive and said his father’s photo “looked like a movie star.”

Hillegass’ father, Tech. Sgt. Blaine C….

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