The image above shows the Honor Roll with the enlarged names of my friend Tom List and Howard Munce. I've only talked to Howard but he seems like a pretty good guy, I had the pleasure of talking to him awhile back. on the phone. Howard was also one of the folks responsible for returning to Westport the original illustration of the Honor Roll.

The Honor Roll that Stevan used for his model showed 231 names on the front panel with room for another 76 on the additional panel (see top image). So you have to wonder how the signpainter of the actual sign handled the rest of 1000 or so names that were added as more and more men from Westport joined the fight. I am hopeful that there will be some record of the original Honor Roll sign perhaps to be found in some newspapers from that era and perhaps just by chance some actual photos.

We received some mail from Howard Munce and Walt Reed while we were out East concerning our proposal of the reconstruction of the "Original Honor Roll" sign. It was good to hear from both of them and hopefully one day we will have the opportunity to meet them. Both of these men were well aquainted with Stevan having worked with him with either his illustrations or the Famous Artist School.

Okay we've been to Westport where we had a great time doing some research and here's a bit of what we discovered. The original Honor Roll Sign was eventually dismantled in the late 70's and what ever became of it is anybody's guess. Eddie Keehan wrote a book on, from what I've read, is pretty much based on the original Honor Roll Sign. See images 1 & 2 for excerpts from his book "Battle for Honor", which profiles Keehan's fight to bring back a World War II Honor Roll to Westport. We also have some pictures of the new Honor Roll (image #3) and it's pretty impressive I might say. It was nice to see Tom List's name (image # 4)...by the way that is Tom's brother John's name above his, there among the others. The eagle was a nice touch that seems to connect some to the original Honor Roll also. (image #5)