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Veterans Memorial

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Veterans Memorial image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Devry Becker Jones (CC0), April 24, 2021
1. Veterans Memorial
Inscription.
Dedicated to those who paid the Supreme Sacrifice

World War I
Elbert L. Davidson • C. Rudolph Floyd

World War II
Joseph Beverly • William F. Campbell • C.S. Carpenter, Jr. • W. Jennings Comer • Russell B. Dillard • Gordon A. Driscoll • Frederick W. Dudley • Daniel F. Finley • Chester C. Flint • Roy L. Gilbert • Ora D. Hamilton • William R. Henson • James C. Hickman • Oscar J. Hostetter • Edward D. Lawhorne • Robert M. Long • Conrad E. Mikels • Raymond Nease • Howard Ogden • Albert G. Plogger • John D. Rader, Jr. • Harold D. Sizer • Albert F. Smith • David W. Smith • Charles S. Teague

Korean
Calvin K. Barger • Fred S. Catlett • Robert R. Musgrove • James B. Noel • Lewis O. Sanderson

Vietnam
Roger L. Carrett • Robert W. Dameron • Anthony L. Johnson
 
Topics. This memorial is listed in these topic lists: War, KoreanWar, VietnamWar, World IWar, World II.
 
Location. 37° 43.974′ N, 79° 21.305′ W. Memorial is in Buena Vista, Virginia. It is on Magnolia Avenue (Business U.S. 501)
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just south of East 20th Street, on the right when traveling south. Touch for map. Memorial is at or near this postal address: 1953 Magnolia Ave, Buena Vista VA 24416, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this memorial is in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley. 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 6 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Old Court House (about 700 feet away, measured in a direct line); Southern Virginia University (approx. half a mile away); Charlie Manuel (approx. Ύ mile away); Moomaw’s Landing (approx. Ύ mile away); Amherst County / Rockbridge County (approx. 3.1 miles away); Constitution Forest (approx. 3.1 miles away); Stonewall Jackson House (approx. 4.4 miles away); Original African American Cemetery
Veterans Memorial image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Devry Becker Jones (CC0), April 24, 2021
2. Veterans Memorial
(approx. 5½ miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Buena Vista.
 
Veterans display on the building image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Devry Becker Jones (CC0), April 24, 2021
3. Veterans display on the building
 
 
Credits. This page was last revised on July 5, 2026. It was originally submitted on April 30, 2021, by Devry Becker Jones of Washington, District of Columbia. This page has been viewed 412 times since then and 13 times this year. Last updated on May 1, 2021, by Bradley Owen of Morgantown, West Virginia. Photos:   1, 2, 3. submitted on April 30, 2021, by Devry Becker Jones of Washington, District of Columbia.
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Jul. 16, 2026