GRAYSON, Ky. — A new video on Youtube is getting a lot of attention locally.

Rich Griendling, the Elizabethtown artist who created the Medal of Honor monument that was recently unveiled at the new Veterans Cemetery Northeast, has posted a video of the installation and dedication ceremony.

The video can be found by going to youtube.com and typing “Rich Griendling” in the search box, or by typing the following address in the browser: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXDI9ZDQ3hk

“Just in time for Veterans Day,” said Bobby Reynolds, chairman of the committee that raised funds and commissioned the monument. “This is great for people who weren’t able to attend the dedication ceremony or haven’t yet seen the monument, and forwarding to friends and relatives who don’t live in the area anymore.”

The video includes footage of setting up the black granite slab and attaching the bronze figures, scenes from the unveiling ceremony, and comments by Medal of Honor recipient Earnest “Ernie” West and by the artist, as well as many highly detailed images of the sculpture.

The monument is an original sculptural work designed and crafted by Griendling.

The work features life-sized, highly detailed bronzes of John Collier and Ernest West in dynamic poses depicting the actions during the Korean War that led them to receive the nation’s highest award for valor.

Collier, who died saving his fellow soldiers by throwing himself on a grenade, was from Worthington, and West, who survives, is from Russell.

The monument was unveiled Sept. 10 as part of the opening ceremony for the new Veterans Cemetery Northeast, located on the Industrial Parkway, off I-64 at mile marker 179 in Grayson, Ky.

Veterans within a 75-mile radius, including West Virginia and Ohio, are eligible to be buried with military honors at the cemetery.