“Silent Heroes of the Cold War Memorial will be a place where we can take our children and tell them the stories of the heroes who worked in secret here in Southern Nevada to see us safely through.”
Steve Ririe’s vision of a national memorial on Mount Charleston dedicated to the fourteen silent heroes of the Cold War is about to become a reality. As chairman of the local nonprofit organization, Ririe has been committed to memorializing those who perished on the mountain on Nov. 17, 1955 since he first discovered some of the plane’s wreckage in 1998.
Recently, Ririe shared his struggles – and triumph – for the memorial in a Las Vegas Review-Journal interview with Keith Rogers. Read the full article here: