HARMONY
CHURCH
Freedom has a price the protected will never know
OLD SCHOOL INFANTRY
About Us
Our group, is the Life Blood of what remains of the 50+ year olds, of the former Home of the United States Infantry! Harmony Church was one of two basic training zones located on Fort Benning, Georgia. The years are from 1943’-1989’. Those training areas were; Harmony Church, Sandhilton. Harmony Church in her WWII white wood clad skeleton barracks on stilts, was demolished in 1992. Nothing remains in the tall pines of the HC zip code except the rustling winds of our youth. It is forever argued by American Grunts Nationwide, who is the best. Fort Benning not only was the school for Infantry. But it was the school for Airborne, and Ranger School and Tankers. That’s a lot of whoopass right there. Not to mention, The National Infantry Museum lays adjacent to the Fort and currently exhibits 5 of the former Harmony Church Buildings. The other 2 buildings at the NIM’s exhibit are General Pattons Head Quarters (where he quarterbacked his Divisions role in WWII. The other building is General Patton’s personal sleeping quarters). Those 7 buildings represent WWII Company Street. It is a dedication to the WWII Era. These buildings were built in 1943 and meant to only last 5 years. In fact, they lasted 46 years until the wrecking ball of 1992. All total….These buildings skeletons are 79 years old as of 2022’ They are disintegrating under the same sun we toiled under in the 60’s - 80’s.
OUR PURPOSE
Meaningful Work
OUR GOAL
As a Non-Profit we intend to Reunite as Brothers and raise awareness through education, as well as to continuously hold fundraisers to raise funds, to preserve the very buildings we trained to defend our nation in. Natures elements are very harsh to wooden buildings in the hot southern Georgia climate. Our Holy grail is rotting and peeling. These 7 buildings are our Ground Zero. The Army would just as soon see the old bones rot away. But not as long as its on Museum property, with donations funding the preservation, how can they deny it?
THE BARRACKS EXHIBIT
N.I.M.
We have our eyes fixed upstairs from the WWII brothers in the Barracks exhibit. Our groups initial Challenge coin (minted 2019’) is currently enshrined in a shadow box located on the wall outside the down stairs drill sergeant quarters. The “Follow Me” coin is accompanied by our voice, galvanized in a copper plate also written in poem by a “Churchite”! It is a prelude of what you should expect to see in a brand new exhibit upstairs.
Address
2769 Leota Lane
Cincinnati, Ohio 45251