Bill Barlow

CAPE MAY — Plans to memorialize a deadly attack on an American Navy destroyer at the start of World War II are heading back to the drawing board, in part due to opposition from some in the community.

Over the summer, representatives of the Jacob Jones Memorial Committee met with community members via Zoom to discuss the proposal, and the expected changes.

“We made it clear, we were going back to page one on the plans,” said Myles Martel, a founding member of the memorial committee, in an interview Monday.

Architect John Boecker, a Cape May resident, will soon start work on designing a new memorial, Martel said. Martel said it will be smaller than what preliminary designs showed when they brought the proposal to City Council last spring.

The intent is to memorialize the sin

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