After 75 years, the story of the battalion gun at Brookland-Cayce High School comes to light
In 1947, Hiram "Red" Manuel and his fellow class officers wrote to the US War Department for a piece of ordinance from World War II to dedicate to “the boys who had gone off to war from Brookland-Cayce High School.” That keepsake, the battalion gun, has stood in front of the school mostly unrecognized -- until now