Washington County Veterans Hall of Fame inducts 8, bestows awards

MARIETTA – Retired Army Gen. Robert Brooks Brown made his first visit to Washington County this weekend, giving the keynote address at the Veterans Service Commission Hall of Fame induction ceremony. Now serving as president and CEO of the Association of the United States Army, Brown retired as a four-star general and commander of the U.S. Army, Pacific. That’s where the patch on his jacket shoulder, depicting a red arrow through a field of blue and multiple constellations, comes from. The same patch was on the shoulder of Beverly-Waterford area resident Francis Sampson, from his…