September 2024 Group Watch: Alabama Opens Fifth Veterans’ Home
Veterans from across Alabama and the country recently gathered in Enterprise to commemorate the opening of the state’s fifth veterans’ home. The 182,000-square-foot Command Sgt. Major Bennie G. Adkins Veterans Home in south Alabama is named after the late Bennie Adkins, a Huntsville native and U.S. Army veteran whose service in the Vietnam War earned him the Medal of Honor in 2014. The facility will house 200 residents, with 20 current residents of other veterans homes scheduled to move into the new facility on October 1, and applications for residency will open later. The home was funded roughly two-thirds by the state of Alabama, and a third from the Federal Department of Veterans Affairs.
