The Slatington Veterans Memorial Committee had disbanded.

The group recently sent a letter that they are disbanding the committee.

However, the Historical Society will maintain the flags and install the remaining bricks.

On Nov. 11, 2011, the group dedicated the memorial at the corner of Main and Second Street.

Dave Altrichter, who most recently served as chairman of the-then Slatington Veterans Memorial, said the group was a subcommittee of the historical society.

“It was never our property, it always belonged to the borough; so everything we did belonged to the borough, and what we did was for the veterans,” Altrichter said. “Everybody’s proud of it; now that we did our part, it was time to say ‘OK, borough, it’s your property, time to maintain it’.”

Altrichter said the group ended up raising about $70,000 in a year-and-a-half, and the project with bricks, in-kind service from the borough and random donations ran about $125,000.

“It didn’t cost taxpayers in the borough one dime,” he said. “That’s what we’re proud of.”

Altrichter deflected the credit off the committee and said it should instead go to borough Manager Dan Stevens, the borough, and Northern Lehigh Future Focus.

“They created the park; we just added on to what they created,” he said. “We have a very good group of people who got together; we started from scratch, organized the whole thing in a year-and-a-half, got it done.”

Altrichter said the group can be proud of all it has accomplished over the years.

“There’s no I in team; it was a total team effort, lot of good men, pulled together a really nice project,” he said. “It was a whole bunch of people, as well as support from the community.”