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Veterans Memorial

 
 
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Photographed by Devry Becker Jones (CC0), January 22, 2022
1. Veterans Memorial
Inscription.
★ Buena Vista Township ★
remembers
those who gave the ultimate sacrifice

World War II
William DeRosa, Army 11/26/1942 • Raymond Eby, Army 6/29/1944 • Thomas Gruccio, Army 7/12/1943 • Paris Perugini, Army 7/24/1945 • Theodore Romanini, Army 1/5/1944

Korean War
Joseph Osovick, Army 10/4/1951 • Arthur H. Traverso, Army 5/29/1951

Vietnam War
Nikolai Kiatkin, Army 3/19/1968 • Edward K. Miller, Marine 8/17/1968 • John E. Mount, Marine 4/7/1968

Noncombat
Thomas G. Quinlan, Marine 12/19/1957 • Melissa Crites Rainaldo, Air Force 2/21/1997


Never Forget
Honor Forever

 
Erected 2014 by Buena Vista Township, New Jersey.
 
Topics. This memorial is listed in this topic list: Military.
 
Location. 39° 30.378′ N, 74° 54.538′ W. Memorial is near Buena, New Jersey, in Atlantic County. It is in Buena Vista Township.
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It is on Harding Highway (U.S. 40) half a mile west of Maple Road, on the left when traveling west. Touch for map. Memorial is at or near this postal address: 890 Harding Hwy, Buena NJ 08310, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this memorial is in the American Northeast and in the Mid-Atlantic. 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 6 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Friendship Church (approx. 2.1 miles away); Pennsylvania Railroad Steel Caboose #477466 (approx. 2.4 miles away); 9-11-2001 (approx. 2.4 miles away); This Section of Steel Beam (approx. 2.4 miles away); a different marker also named Veterans Memorial (approx. 2.4 miles away); "The Tree Monument" (approx. 2.4 miles away); Charles Kline Landis (approx. 5.4 miles away); The Richard "Dick" Errickson Baseball Field (approx. 6.1 miles away).
 
Veterans Memorial image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Devry Becker Jones (CC0), January 22, 2022
2. Veterans Memorial
 
 
Credits. This page was last revised on February 7, 2023. It was originally submitted on January 23, 2022, by Devry Becker Jones of Washington, District of Columbia. This page has been viewed 211 times since then and 17 times this year. Photos:   1, 2. submitted on January 23, 2022, by Devry Becker Jones of Washington, District of Columbia.
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