The National Coalition of Black Veterans Organizations extends our deepest gratitude for your decades of dedicated service to our nation. During your Presidential administration, you seized the opportunity to recognize the honorable service of then-Colonel Charles Young with a posthumous promotion to Brigadier General, a recognition that our coalition had pursued for more than forty years. In the aftermath of this distinguished honor, we collaborated with the states of Kentucky and Ohio to designate and unveil the BG Charles Young Memorial Historical Corridor. Spanning a 170-mile stretch, the corridor includes more than ten historically Black locations, starting in Nicholasville, Kentucky, and concluding in Wilberforce, Ohio. This corridor is a crucial component of an economic development project aimed at fostering educational tourism in the region. Governor Andy Beshear has been a steadfast supporter, and the Kentucky Tourism, Arts, and Heritage Cabinet has provided financial assistance – see the attached magazine for more details.
