Eighteen members of the Mid-Ohio Valley Veterans Support Group visited the National Infantry and Solder Museum in September near Fort Moore, Ga. (Photo provided)

PARKERSBURG — A group of veterans from the region toured the National Infantry and Solder Museum in September near Fort Moore, the former Fort Benning, Ga.

Eighteen members of the Mid-Ohio Veterans Support Group toured the facility upon the invitation of Jerry White, a retired U.S. Army major general and a founder of the museum, said John Danielski, a spokesman and volunteer for the group.

Fort Benning was renamed Fort Moore to remove the ties to the Confederate Civil War Gen. Henry L. Benning, whose nickname was Old Rock. The base was renamed Fort Moore in 2023 after the late Lt. Gen. Hal Moore, who received the Distinguished Service Cross.

Members of the support group on the trip were Danielski, Joseph Ellis, Stephen

Vicars, Danielle McKown and newborn baby, Marion Goldsmith, Bill Mills, Steve Norman, Ron Friesenhengst, Mike Davis, Roger Blizzard, Ted Skinner, Rick Stanley, Paul Bunner, Herman Haught, Danny Williams, Rod Sellers, Ed Moore and Donald Petry.

Mills and Goldsmith volunteered to be the drivers and Stanley and McKown are counselors with the Counseling and Wellness center who work with war veterans.

Many veterans who experienced war-time duty on the battlefield have had to deal with post traumatic stress disorder. The disorder was known as soldier’s heart in the Civil War, shell shock in World War I and battle fatigue in World War II and Korea.