From the Richmond Times Dispatch article:
John C. “Clay” Mountcastle, a professor of military history at Fort Lee, will succeed Jon Hatfield to become just the second executive director at the memorial.
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The war memorial first opened in 1956. By the time Hatfield became executive director in 1997 as the memorial’s first employee, the shrine’s eternal flame was snuffed out and the memorial wall was on the verge of collapse. Hatfield oversaw the restoration of a monument drawing fewer than 10,000 visitors annually and the addition of an 18,000-square-foot education center. Last year, the memorial overlooking downtown Richmond drew more than 70,000 visitors.
Hatfield, who will retire June 15, also began the work on another $23 million project to expand the memorial’s signature shrine to include veterans who have died since 9/11 while adding more educational space and an underground parking deck.
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