On Monday - Memorial Day - the Charles H. Coolidge National Medal of Honor Heritage Center here in Chattanooga added a new exhibit: a permanent installation on Alexander Bonnyman, Jr.
The Marine Corps officer - who grew up in Knoxville - was killed in the Pacific during World War II.
He was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor and the Purple Heart - but his remains were recovered only within the past decade.
Clay Bonnyman Evans - his grandson - chronicles the search for those remains in his book, “Bones of My Grandfather.”
![Clay Bonnyman Evans atop "Bonnyman's Bunker," where his grandfather was killed on November 22, 1943.](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/26d552d/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1900x1425+0+0/resize/880x660!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F34%2Fa5%2F530939d74f438fa85dcb389396c4%2Fevans.jpg)
Clay Bonnyman Evans
I spoke with Clay when he visited Chattanooga a few days ago for the unveiling of the Medal of Honor exhibit.
![Cover of “Bones of My Grandfather”](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/ba64596/2147483647/strip/true/crop/685x1024+0+0/resize/880x1316!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fda%2Fc8%2F37184e0e4d428046532d9d8e2ca6%2Fbonesofmygrandfather.jpg)
Simon & Schuster
For more about the Charles H. Coolidge Medal of Honor Heritage Center here in Chattanooga, visit mohhc.org.