It was a labor of love to bring two Talos Missiles to Honor Park Saturday afternoon in South Bend.
The dedication ceremony was decades in the making.
The missiles were used by the U.S. Navy from the late 1950s to the early 1980s and were later used as target drones up until 2005.
What visitors to Honor Park saw was the finished product of seven years of restoration.
The final resting place of the Talos missiles is no mistake, they were originally built not far from where the ceremony was held.
"Played a huge role in Mishawaka's economic development. At peak of employment there were about eighteen hundred people that worked on the seventy seven acre complex that Bendix had on the east side of Mishawaka, so we're very happy to give them a final resting place here at the Honor Park in South Bend," says Secretary of Honor Park, John Schalliol.
According to Schalliol, the missiles played an important role in the deterrent capability during the Cold War.
