Minnesota

"I've attached the pic associated with the World War One Memorial at Ada, Minnesota. Since it's dedication (date unknown) other sides of the base have had plaques added listing the fatalities from World War II, Korea, and Vietnam."

-Mr. Johannes R. Allert, M.A., CTL

In Memory Of 
Those Aitkin County 
Soldiers 
Who Lost Their 
Lives In The 
World War

Erected By 
Northland Chapter D.A.R. 
1936

To honor the Minnesotans who, along with their brothers in arms in the U.S. armed forces, helped bring an end to the epic tragedy of World War I.

Larry Jensen used a chain saw to carve this wooden eagle from a white pine stump. It raises its right wing to represent soldiers who returned from service, and holds its left wing to its side to represent those who did not return. It was dedicated on October 13, 1991. as a tribute to the veterans of wars from WWI through the Persian Gulf War.

Roll of honor listing 103 men "who answered our country's call in the World War 1914-1918"; five dead are marked with a star: Julian Dahlen, Frank Elias, Clifford Hegna, William Ronnie (?), and Theodore Tollefson. Now part of an all-veteran memorial park dedicated 11/11/2007.

-Christopher Gehrz

"Metal sculpture of a "doughboy" from World War I was crafted by Ken Nyberg. Ken, a regional metal artist, has created many wonderful, life-like, realistic and whimsical statues that are on display in many local communities. Many of his sculptures are made with bits of scrap metal.

This statue is a memorial to World War I but the plaque honors all veterans."

-http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMJHY1_Doughboy_Henning_MN

This is a brick gateway, approximately 12 x 15 X 4 feet in size, erected by the Canby Memorial Association in memory of the veter­ans of the Spanish-American War and WWI. It was dedicated on No­vember 11,1930, and bears lists of the veterans of those two wars.

The largest memorial to those Minnesotans who died in World War I no longer exists, except for a preserved fragment and an impressive website that thoroughly documents its nearly ninety-year history.

The Mendota Bridge (full name Fort Snelling – Mendota Bridge) carries Minnesota State Highway 55 over the Minnesota River between Fort Snelling and Mendota Heights. It is the final bridge over the Minnesota River before the Minnesota flows into the Mississippi River at the "Meeting of the waters" or "Mendota" in the Dakota language.

The structure was designed by C.A.P. Turner and Walter H. Wheeler. Turner also designed the Aerial Lift Bridge in Duluth, Minnesota and the Liberty Memorial Bridge between Bismarck and Mandan, North Dakota.

The bridge is dedicated to the "Gopher Gunners", 151st Field Artillery who died in World War I.

Minnesota's Merci Boxcar arrived in Minneapolis on February 13, 1949. The following day at 10:30 a.m. in what could only be described as miserable conditions, icy cold and windy, a brief ceremony was held on the front steps of the Capitol. Speakers included Governor Luther Youngdahl; Jacques Fermaud, the French consul in Minneapolis; J. J. Viala, the French consul general of Chicago; and Gladys Peterson, a 15-year-old school girl from Tyler, Minnesota in recognition of the work the state's school children performed when the Friendship Train came through Minnesota.

The Minnesota National Guard Armory, 205 North Broadway, New Ulm, Minnesota was dedicated in May, 1916.  Burg’s Battery, New Ulm’s private army dating from 1863, welcomed Governor J. A. A. Burnquist to the ceremony with a 21-gun salute.  This Armory has served Minnesota and the United States for 99 years.  Today it is occupied by the Minnesota Army National Guard Headquarters Battery Battalion Headquarters.

By George L. Glotzbach

Veterans of WW1

New Ulm's copy of E.M. Viquesney's much-duplicated "Spirit of the American Doughboy" was dedicated by the local VFW post in 1941 (then redone in 1995). John McCrae's iconic poem, "In Flanders Field," is inscribed at the base of the statue. Not far away stands a slightly older memorial: a flagpole erected "In memory of all war veterans" by the American Legion on November 11, 1934.