100 Cities - 100 Memorials

This is an "all wars" monument honoring veterans who were born in Collier County, FL, who lost their lives in combat.

John F. Paramino sculpted this heroic-sized bronze bust of Col. Cogswell, who was born in Henniker, taught in its schools, and served as the commanding officer of the 11th New Hampshire Infantry in the Civil War. It sits on a granite base which bears the likenesses of an eagle with spread wings and the town seal, and text commem­orating the soldiers from Henniker who served in all wars from the Revolutionary War through WWI.

Five pylons of Colorado granite arc upward in a circle from a concrete plaza. They are topped by an ornamental grill with the insignia of the five major branches of the U.S. Armed Forces and camouflaged speakers and lights. Pylons at the bottom slope away to symbolize "parade rest".  A seven ft tall green marble cylindrical container is at the bottom of the base, and has bronze circular medallions of the service seals.

Inside the container is a public address system and program­mable chimes. Sidewalks radiate outward to military monuments at each end. This is a memorial to the citizens who died in service dur­ing WWI, WWII, and the Korean and Vietnam Wars. It was dedi­cated on November 11, 1968.

This memorial is located in Eden Cemetery, the oldest African-American-owned cemetery in the United States. Its inscription reads:

IN MEMORIAM

THE COLORED SOLDIERS
OF PENNSYLVANIA
WHO FOUGHT AND DIED
IN FRANCE 1917 - 1918
THAT LIBERTY EQUALITY
AND FRATERNITY MIGHT
BE ESTABLISHED BETWEEN
ALL NATIONS
AND AMONG ALL PEOPLES

ERECTED
BY THE MEMORIAL COMMITTEE
MAY 30, 1919

On the Colquitt County Courthouse grounds, granite monument with eternal flame. This memorial is inscribed with 32 service members that died in WW1. Those from WW2, Korea, and Vietnam are also listed.

Inscription: “To the Memory of Colquitt County Men Who Served During Time of War and Died in Service.”

Dedicated 2009 “In Honor Of All Veterans” 
This Memorial, honoring all veterans from Columbia County in Washington State, sits on the grounds of, or next to a Home Street Bank in the county road right-of-way.
The Memorial contains Basalt columns dedicated to each war of The Republic, Flag Pole, polished black granite plates engraved with the names of Columbia County Veterans from all wars and a sculpture of a soldier kneeling before a “Battlefield Cross”

Founded by the Veterans of Foreign Wars William Murphy Post 5650. Currently maintained & updated by American Legion Freedom Post 72

This bronze statue was sculpted by E.M. Viquesney, and was dedicated on November 11, 1928. It depicts a WWI infantryman ad­vancing through barbed wire and stumps of No Man's Land, wear­ing a field uniform and holding a rifle and a hand grenade. It is rest­ing on a native stone base (replacing a previous granite one), and nearby are a flagpole and two cannons which were added in 1972 when the statue was moved here from Kalispell. lt was located on Main St. there, and vehicles occasionally ran into it.

Dedicated November 11, 2002. This monument was erected on behalf of the citizens of South Carolina in memory of the South Carolinians who served during the Great War. It features the sculpture entitled “The Spirit of the American Doughboy”, originally sculpted by E. M. Viquesney and reproduced here from molds of the original work by Frank Colson. Plaques providing a brief history of the Doughboys of the Great War, the first American troops in World War 1, are mounted on the interior walls of the monument.

     A historical marker commemorates the first African-American aviator from World War I.  It reads: “Eugene J. Bullard, 1896-1961.  Bullard grew up in a small shotgun style house near this site. His father, William, was a laborer for the W. C. Bradley Company. Eugene completed the fifth grade at the 28th Street School. Shaken by the death of his mother, Josephine, and the near lynching of his father, Bullard left Columbus as a young teenager. In 1912, he stowed-away on a merchant ship out of Norfolk, Virginia. He spent the next 28 years of his life in Europe.  Erected by the Historic Columbus Foundation and Historic Chattahoochee Commission 2007”

     One of ten children of an impoverished Columbus family, he stowed away on a ship to Scotland when a teenager.  Settling in Paris, he became a boxer and worked in a music hall.  Enlisting at the outbreak of World War I in 1914, as a volunteer from overseas he was assigned to French colonial troops.  He saw combat on the Somme front as a machine gunner, and later at Artois and the second Champagne offensive.  After heavy losses by the French Foreign Legion, Bullard was allowed to transfer to the 170^th Line Infantry Regiment, which eventually was sent to Verdun, where he was seriously wounded in 1916.  After recovering, he volunteered that fall for the French Air Service as an air gunner.  Following training, he received his pilot’s license in May 1917, and flew with the LaFayette Flying Corps, Escadrille N.93 and N.85, taking part in some twenty combat missions.  His reputation grew as the “Black Swallow of Death.”

     When the U.S. entered the war, Bullard stood the medical examination to serve in the LaFayette Flying Corps as part of the American Expeditionary Force, but was not accepted, as only white pilots were allowed to serve.    He served beyond the Armistice, not being discharged until October 24, 1919, and was awarded the Croix de guerre, among 15 awards from the French government.

     Living in Paris between the wars, he worked as a drummer and nightclub manager, eventually owning his own club, gaining famous friends including Louis Armstrong and Langston Hughes.  When Germany again invaded France in May 1940, Bullard fled Paris with his two surviving daughters from a marriage which had ended in divorce.  Volunteering in defense of Orleans, he was wounded, but escaped to neutral Spain and then went to the United States. 

     Never fully recovering from his war wound, and finding that his French fame did not follow him home, he worked for a while as an interpreter for Louis Armstrong.  With a financial settlement from the destruction of his Paris nightclub in the war, he bought an apartment in Harlem.  He was among those attacked and injured during the infamous Peerskill riots of 1949.  His final job was as an elevator operator at Rockefeller Center. 

     In 1954, the French government invited him to participate in the rekindling of the eternal flame at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier under the Arc de Triomphe, and in 1960 he was made a knight of the Legion of Honor.  Spending his final years in relative obscurity and poverty in New York City, he died in 1961 at age 66.  He is buried in the French War Veterans’ section of Flushing Cemetery in Queens, New York.

     On August 23, 1994, 33 years after his death, and 77 years to the day after the physical that should have allowed him to fly for his own country, Eugene Bullard was posthumously commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the United States Air Force.

This memorial, located in McPherson Park, honors the memory of the heroes from McPherson County who gave their lives in World War I. It includes an honor roll listing those from Company D, 2nd Kansas Infantry who died in the Great War. 

HONOR ROLL 
WORLD WAR II 
ERECTED AND AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED TO THE MEMORY OF 
THE HEROIC MEN AND WOMEN OF CONCORD, STATEN ISLAND, 
AS A TRIBUTE TO THE SELF SACRIFICING SPIRIT THAT 
THEY DISPLAYED IN THEIR COUNTRY'S SERVICE DURING 
THE MOMENTOUS YEARS OF 1941-1945. 
MAY GOD'S BLESSINGS REST UPON THEM 
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT 


Inset box

OUR HONORED DEAD 
[16 names] 
YOU CAN CALL YOURSELF AN AMERICAN ONLY BECAUSE 
THESE MEN SERVED AND DIED, TO GIVE YOU THE RIGHT TO SAY SO. 


[564 Names]

ERECTED BY THE CONCORD COMMUNITY COUNCIL IN THE YEAR 1947 
WITH THE AID OF CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE PEOPLE OF THIS TOWNSHIP. 
SITE GRANTED THROUGH THE COURTESY OF THE PATRICK J. DALESSIO POST NO. 1310 OF THE AMERICAN LEGION. 

The G.A.R. and the American Legion and Auxiliary raised the $600 cost of this limestone statue, dedicated on September 23, 1923. It shows a standing WWI soldier, at attention with his rifle in his right hand. Originally, the plaque honored WWI veterans, but it was later replaced by one that also included the veterans of the Civil and Spanish-American Wars.

Atop the 24-story, 425-foot Con Ed building is a colossal, 38-foot-tall bronze and glass lantern dedicated to the Con Ed employees killed in World War I. 

Courthouse in Conway County, Arkansas.

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