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Siler City in Chatham County, North Carolina — The American South (South Atlantic)
 

West Chatham Veterans Memorial

 
 
West Chatham Veterans Memorial image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Devry Becker Jones (CC0), April 23, 2021
1. West Chatham Veterans Memorial
Inscription.
When we were needed
we were there

Duty
Honor
Country
POW★MIA
You are not forgotten

All gave some…
Some gave all

Uncommon valor was a common virtue


 
Topics. This memorial is listed in this topic list: Military.
 
Location. 35° 43.07′ N, 79° 27.254′ W. Memorial is in Siler City, North Carolina, in Chatham County. It is on Alston Bridge Road just east of South 2nd Avenue, on the right when traveling east. Touch for map. Memorial is at or near this postal address: 131 Alston Bridge Rd, Siler City NC 27344, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this memorial is in North Carolina’s Piedmont. It is also in the American South and specifically in the Upper South. Globally, it is in North America, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once the territory of the Mississippian Culture, one of the original Thirteen Colonies, one of the Confederate States of America, and the Antebellum South.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within
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12 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Hotel Hadley (approx. 0.7 miles away); Siler City, N.C. (approx. Ύ mile away); Wilcox Iron Works (approx. 3.8 miles away); Plikard Dederic Siler (approx. 4.1 miles away); Rocky River Church (approx. 4.1 miles away); Rocky River Friends Meeting (approx. 8.3 miles away); Cox’s Mill (approx. 10 miles away); Cane Creek Meeting House (approx. 11.6 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Siler City.
 
Also see . . .  West Chatham Veterans Memorial photos. (Submitted on April 27, 2021, by Devry Becker Jones of Washington, District of Columbia.)
 
West Chatham Veterans Memorial image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Devry Becker Jones (CC0), April 23, 2021
2. West Chatham Veterans Memorial
West Chatham Veterans Memorial image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Devry Becker Jones (CC0), April 23, 2021
3. West Chatham Veterans Memorial
West Chatham Veterans Memorial image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Devry Becker Jones (CC0), April 23, 2021
4. West Chatham Veterans Memorial
West Chatham Veterans Memorial image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Devry Becker Jones (CC0), April 23, 2021
5. West Chatham Veterans Memorial
West Chatham Veterans Memorial image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Devry Becker Jones (CC0), April 23, 2021
6. West Chatham Veterans Memorial
 
 
Credits. This page was last revised on April 27, 2021. It was originally submitted on April 27, 2021, by Devry Becker Jones of Washington, District of Columbia. This page has been viewed 407 times since then and 56 times this year. Photos:   1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. submitted on April 27, 2021, by Devry Becker Jones of Washington, District of Columbia.
 
Editor’s want-list for this marker. A transcription of names on the memorial • Can you help?
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