Fort Benjamin Harrison

Donna earned her high school diploma and worked at the Fort Benjamin Harrison finance center.

Decommissioned in 1991, Fort Benjamin Harrison was a working base from World War I through Desert Storm before acquiring a new persona as a 1,700-acre state park with a warfare museum, among other attractions.

In the early 1990s, the federal government was closing dozens of military operations under its Base Realignment and Closure program_including Fort Benjamin Harrison in Lawrence in 1991.

The Indiana Department of the American Legion is relocating from a spot adjacent to the Legion’s national headquarters in downtown Indianapolis to the former Fort Benjamin Harrison in the city of Lawrence, an enclave in northeast Indianapolis.

Now, if the Soldiers' Data Tag Task Force at Fort Benjamin Harrison in Indianapolis has its way, the G.I.'s stamped metal dog tag will be replaced by a plastic wafer that only a computer can read and only an engineer could love.