SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — A rededication ceremony will mark the completed restoration of a World War I cannon in Sioux City. The Sioux City Journal reports that the ceremony will be held Wednesday at the Memorial Park Cemetery. Restoration efforts began in 2016 when veterans Wayne Schipper, Wayne Thieman, Curt Moodie and Kie Ahrens came together to figure out how to fix the rotting cannon. Moodie says they raised $10,000 to refurbish the cannon, most of which came from veterans.

The U.S. War Department awarded the cannon to the Sioux City chapter of the Military Order of the Purple Heart, a national organization for veterans who were wounded in combat and received a Purple Heart award. The chapter dedicated the cannon on May 30, 1941 at the cemetery, where many veterans are buried.