Side 1:
ERECTED BY THE / VAN NEST CITIZEN'S / PATRIOTIC LEAGUE / IN MEMORY OF / THOSE WHO SERVED / OUR COUNTRY / IN THE / WORLD WAR / 1917 --- 1918 / AND / WORLD WAR II / 1941 --- 1945 /

Bronze Plaque: 
REDEDICATION BY / ITALIAN AMERICAN WAR VETERANS / BRONX COUNTY POST39 / OCTOBER 31, 1979 / 

Side 2: 
KOREA / RALPH J. CELENTANO / ROBERT F. GORMAN / 

Side 3: 
LEST WE FORGET / PAUL ARNONE / THOS. BARRY / F.M. BEGAN / VIVIEN BROWN / C. DIEDTRICH / H. ERLANDSEN / WM. GORTON / JOS. A. KALLAS / CHAS. KEEGAN / ARTHUR MCBRIDE / F. SCHLAICH / H. SCHEELER / J. SLATOBOLSKY / EUG. L. ZENGEN / JOHN N. BELMONT / DEDICATED / MCMXXVI / 

Side 4: 
VIETNAM / MICHAEL P. GALEA / PATRICK J. GALLAGHER / DANIEL MEADE / MARTIN R. POWERS / ANGELO G. RAPTIG / DENNIS J. RUSSO / VINCENT M. SORANNO / ROBERT L. TARANTO / RICHARD J. TIRIGO / JULIO C. VARGAS / RICHARD PARKER / PETER R. WIESNEIFSKI /

This tablet lists all members of the Evansville Bar Association that served in WWI.

The inscription on this memorial, erected in 2014 by the Venango County Historical Society, reads:

In Honor of
World War I Veterans
[Photo of troop ship]

In Memory
[Photo of troops in battle]

In Remembrance
[Photo of troops entering "No Man's Land"]

Presented by the
Venango County Historical Society
August 2014
[Photo of French troops in battle]

In 1900, John Wanamaker of Wanamaker Department Store in Philadelphia, came to Island Heights, NJ to open a camp, "the Barracks," for children attending the John Wanamaker Commercial Institutes in Philadelphia and New York. A paternal employer, Wanamaker was adamant about well-rounded education for his employees. "Thinking, trying, toiling and trusting God, is all of my biography," he wrote once in response to a request for a sketch of his life, and so in finding Island Heights religiously oriented, easily accessible by rail from both stores, and with the availability of land for camping and marching, he established his quasi-military encampment in the northeastern corner of the Borough.

The young employees came in weekly shifts until child labor was deemed unlawful in 1941. People came from miles around to watch the drilling and hear the Drum & Bugle Corps and the Military Band. The students were drilled like a National Guard camp, but with time for field sports and swimming.

In later years, full companies from Wanamaker's went on to fight in foreign wars, and a granite statue on the Borough grounds stands as a tribute to their participation at the Battle of Verdun in France. 

Narrative adapted from "Island Heights Historic District" National Register Nomination, 1982. 

Photos courtesy of:  NJ State Historic Preservation Office

Veteran's Memorial Pillars

The park was dedicated on November 11, 1926, after the Grand Rapids Council of the American Legion and public contribution funded memorial pillars in honor of WWI vets. In 1945, a citizens group petitioned for a WWII veterans memorial, and coupled with interest for honoring those who served in the Korean War, funds were secured for the addition of five granite pillars to the park. In 1975, two more pillars were added to honor Vietnam veterans.

Names of those who died in WWI appear on eight bronze bronze plaques placed on the sides of the granite pillars. Flowers commemorating their sacrifice are place at the base of both monuments. The plaque reads, "ERECTED BY THE CITIZENS OF GRAND RAPIDS WITH FUNDS VOLUNTARILY SUBSCRIBED THEREFORE AND DEDICATED NOVEMBER 11, 1926 TO THE MEMORY OF THE MEN AND WOMEN OF GRAND RAPIDS WHO MADE THE SUPREME SACRIFICE IN THE SERVICE OF THEIR COUNTRY IN THE WORLD WAR. The smaller monument visible between the two pillars is a bust of Thomas Gilbert.

Harry Marinsky sculpted this group of bronze abstract, helmeted military figures, two men and two women, ascending a flight of loosely spiraled, broken white granite steps.  The highest one holds an American flag and others have their arms raised with fingers spread, reaching.  This memorial was dedicated on May 30, 1966 to honor veterans of all American wars.  At the time, it was the largest (19 feet tall) bronze monument in CT.

This monument consists of a flag pole set in a stone plinth in front of Saddle River's municipal building.  The base of a quarry-faced stone plinth surmounted by a concrete slab containing a center hole for the flagpole. 

A bronze plaque on the front contains an honor role recognizing local residents who served in both world wars & Korea.  The plaque is decorated with an eagle under the curved top. 

Photos courtesy of:  Sheena Chi

This life-size bronze figure, prone and wrapped in a tarpaulin, was sculpted by A. Thomas Schomberg and dedicated to war veterans on Memorial Day 1986.  The figure lies atop an 11-ft. tall rectangular platform, inspired by a Plains Indian custom of placing their dead on a high scaffold in presentation to the spiritual world.  This memorial was a gift of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas F. Kane.

This is a bronze bas-relief, sculpted by Clydetta Fulmer, a little over 4-ft. tall, mounted on a 10-ft. tall freestanding limestone wall.  Dedicated in 1992, it was commissioned to honor all who have served in wars involving the United States.  It depicts a man and a woman walking and supporting an injured man between them. All are wearing combat fatigues.  

"This reinforced concrete river bridge, thought to be the first in Alabama, was erected over Pea River in 1920-21 at a cost of $92,108.97. It was dedicated on August 3, 1921, as a memorial to the 57 men from Dale County who lost their lives in World War I. Engineers were Mitcham, Keller, Smith and Land. County officials were Windham, Sessions, Roberts, Ziglar, Mullins and Archer. In 1977, through the efforts of the Dale County Historical Society, the Veterans Memorial Bridge was placed on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage by the Alabama Historical Commission." -Historic Chattahoochee Commission and the Dale County Historical Society marker, 1979.

The stone piece sits in front of the Veterans Memorial Building in Albany. The memorial consists of a slab which has written the following on it:

"Dedicated by the citizens of Albany to its World War Veterans - 1926 - Twenty Nine of our boys served under our flag." In front of that is a stone basin. On top of the piece is a bas relief of a wreath.

This memorial, sculpted by Karl F. Lang, honors the veterans of the Civil War, the Spanish-American War, and World War I.  A Civil War soldier faces west, leaning on the barrel of his rifle.  Facing south is a World War I doughboy with an upraised hand.  On the east is a Spanish-American War sailor.  To the north is a figure without a uniform, except for an ammunition belt, with an arrow at his feet. 

Veterans Memorial Levee Park
Near Hastings River Walk,
War Memorial Plaque and
American Legion Memorial Wall

The markers a generic Memorial Monument to those who
served in all wars of our Republic and can be reached from
the park entrance at the above address or the Hastings River
Walk entrance near the American Legion.

The marker was erected on July 25th, 1981.

In Veterans Memorial Park, a memorial wall lists the names of fallen servicemembers from World War 1 to the present day. A bronze statue called "Battlefield Cross" stands in front of the wall, and can be seen in the picture gallery. It depicts a servicemember's helmet, rifle, and boots.