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Freeport Memorial Library War Memorial

 
 
Freeport Memorial Library War Memorial image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Andrew Ruppenstein, April 24, 2019
1. Freeport Memorial Library War Memorial
Inscription.
Their supreme sacrifice gave us our tomorrows

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Lost but not forgotten

Civil War
1861-1865
Treadwell Bedell · William T. Golder · John Hutchinson · Benjamin F. Losee · William R. Mead · Dandridge B.P. Mott · Joseph Mott · Enoch Mulliner · Elijah K. Raynor · William Seaman · Cornell L. Simonson · Asa Smith · Vanderveer Smith

Spanish-American War
1898-1899
Charles Gombert · Asa L. Johnson · Charles A. Scott

World War I
1917-1919
Thomas Willis Benham · Emile C. Berard · Theodore de Kruijff · William F. Downs · William E. Ensko · Charles Gannt · Charles P. Gould · Mabel Pauline Guest · E. Stanly Hart · Harold C. Hubert · John Intellisano · Charles Jordano · Harold Earl Maxon · Henry T. Mohr · Henry Morrison · James C. Rich · Arthur J. Smith · William Clinton Story · John J. Thurston · James E. Vetal · Osbourne Wells · Walter Whittaker · Townsend C. Young

World War II
1941-1945
Onorado W. Agnitti · Norman E. Andersen · John E. Berdich · Robert H. Bergmann · Saul W. Berson · Daniel C. Binneweg · Robert W. Bliss · Robert W. Boyle · Thomas E. Brittingham · A. Leslie Brown · Aubrey E. Burch · Frank D. Buwen · Donald J. Campbell · Kenneth M. Clay · James Collins · Richard Crouse · Oscar De Loney · Robert B. Eastman · Paul G. Eberius · Berking T. Edds · Ira I. Edelman · Melford Elderd · Roger J. Ellison · George E. Gardiner · John Gildea · A. Theodore Goldsmith · Warren Gollender · Andrew G. Holmes · Donald L. Jackson · Charles McKearns, Jr. · Daniel Kelleher · Fred R. Licence · Ralph G. Licence · Frederick F. Madden · Robert J. Maher · Charles O. Martin · Wilbur F. McGinley · Henry J. Meyer · Nicholas M. Mileo · Frank A. Muldowney, Jr. · Patrick J. Muro · Paul T. Murphy · John W. Neundorfer · William C. Pendleton · Richard Perlman · Arthur F. Polley · Carmen J. Preziosi · Irving Reich · Alva W. Rodriguez · Mortimer R. Salmon · John A. Schlegel · Alvin R. Schumacher · George A. Schutte · William A. Serby · Walter G. Sheard · Jerome J. Simandl · Warren H. Stevens · M. Blaine Taylor, Jr. · Arthur E. Temple · Bayard D. Tewksbury · E. Lee Theuman · John J. Vetter · John C. Viebrock · Walter J. Wascher, Jr. · Harold C. Wilson, Jr.

Korean War
1950-1955
Ronald A. Canfield · Wilbur L. Bond · Clifford H. Craw · Felix Garland · Norbert Francis Houter · Edward C. Koenke, Jr. · Robert E. McAllister

Vietnam War
1961-1975
Roger G. Clemens · Michael P. Donlon · Charles H. Emery · Gerald H. Faulkner, Jr. · Richard F. LaBarbera · Kevin Bernard McGovern · Dennis Patrick Molese · Thomas Lawrence Morano · Don Brown Parsons, Jr. · Viesturs Reikmanis · Victor Joseph Ruggero, Jr. · Harold Snyder, Jr. · Bruce N. Sweeney · Gary W. Thornlow · Ronald E. Tuitt · Robert Michael Wainz

"We few, we happy few, we band of brothers. For he that sheds his blood with mine this day is my brother."   William Shakespeare
 
Erected 2000

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Topics. This memorial is listed in these topic lists: War, KoreanWar, Spanish-AmericanWar, US CivilWar, VietnamWar, World IWar, World II.
 
Location. 40° 39.197′ N, 73° 35.198′ W. Memorial is in Freeport, New York, in Nassau County. It is at the intersection of West Merrick Avenue and Ocean Avenue, on the right when traveling west on West Merrick Avenue. Touch for map. Memorial is at or near this postal address: 144 West Merrick Avenue, Freeport NY 11520, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this memorial is in the New York City Metropolitan Area and on Long Island. It is also in the American Northeast, in the Mid-Atlantic, and on the Eastern Seaboard. Globally, it is in the North Atlantic Region, North America, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once New Netherland and also one of the original Thirteen Colonies.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker: Freeport Memorial Library
Freeport Memorial Library War Memorial - wide view image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Andrew Ruppenstein, April 24, 2019
2. Freeport Memorial Library War Memorial - wide view
(within shouting distance of this marker); Merrick Road (within shouting distance of this marker); Freeport Post Office (within shouting distance of this marker); Freeport Methodist Episcopal Church (approx. Ό mile away); First Fire Co (approx. Ό mile away); World War I Trench Mortar (approx. Ό mile away); Trubia Rifle (approx. 0.3 miles away); The First Public School in Freeport (approx. 0.3 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Freeport.
 
 
Credits. This page was last revised on May 25, 2019. It was originally submitted on May 25, 2019, by Andrew Ruppenstein of Lamorinda, California. This page has been viewed 849 times since then and 31 times this year. Photos:   1, 2. submitted on May 25, 2019, by Andrew Ruppenstein of Lamorinda, California.
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