Minnesota residents serve as models for bronze art project honoring...

Did you know that Minnesota residents serve as models for bronze art project honoring veterans?

Did you know that Minnesota residents serve as models for bronze art project honoring veterans?

http://www.wday.com/news/3897971-minnesota-residents-serve-models-bronze-art-project-honoring-veterans

Area residents with ties to the military say they are proud to have been models for five bronze statues placed recently at a new Army medical center at Fort Hood, Texas.

The statues were placed during the last week of October at the entrance of Fort Hood’s new Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center. The center is set to open in the spring of 2016.

The statues were produced to honor older and younger soldiers and their families who have connections to Fort Hood and the Army.

One of the five models used by bronze sculptor Neil Brodin of Brodin Studios of Kimball, Minn., to produce the statues was Bruce Cottington, 88, of Litchfield, an underage Navy veteran of World War II. The statue Cottington posed for represents the “old’’ military: soldiers who served during WWII and the Korean and Vietnam wars.