BLOOMINGTON-NORMAL, Ill. (WMBD) — On Friday afternoon, Veteran’s Parkway will be temporarily closed for a procession escorting the remains of Private First Class Robert Lee Bryant.
The southbound portion of the road will be closed from Shepard Road in Normal to Washington Street in Bloomington.
Bryant was killed in action during World War II. According to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Bryant participated in Operation AVALANCHE, the invasion of Italy near Salerno in September 1943, while assigned to Company B, 4th Ranger Battalion, “Darby’s Rangers,” in the Mediterranean Theater…