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Cortesi Veterans Memorial Park

 
 
Cortesi Veterans Memorial Park Marker image. Click for full size.
Photographed By Sean Flynn, April 12, 2024
1. Cortesi Veterans Memorial Park Marker
Inscription. [Plaque on the flagpole in the center:]
Dedicated to the Villa Park Veterans of Foreign Wars

[Inscription at the top of plaques dedicated to the five branches of the U.S. Armed Forces:]
Freedom Is Not Free
Dedicated to the following that paid the ultimate sacrifice while serving their country.


U.S. Army
World War II:

Robert C. Albright • William C. Brand • Kenneth Goodhart • Richard Hitzman • William M. Klaeren • Herbert Ohlin • William H. Stevens • Aldo N. Allegretti • Morris W. Cleland • George Hall • Glenn H. Hoff • Albert C. McArthur • Vince Ropinski • Henry S. Urban • Eugene C. Weishaar • Lawrence T. Bartels • Walter Dziak • Gerald R. Hill • Willard N. Johnson • Kenneth Moss • Angelo Sinibaldi • Joseph A. Wagner

Vietnam:
David Ronald Burkes Jr. • William Patrick Lyons • John Michael Dunbar • Gerald France Novak • Theodore I. Sturtevant • Hans Dietrick Lange • Claude Douglas Protz

War on Terror:
Christopher Michael Alcozer

U.S. Marines
World War II:
Wallace A. Bangert • Donald W. Hill • Robert B. Burns • Robert Poile • Fillimore Halffield • Richard Wallen

Vietnam:
Paul Andrew Stein

U.S. Navy
World War II:
Ralph LeBeau • Neal
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Adrian Nabers • Richard Rose • Eugene J. Paulson

Vietnam:
Joel Watkins

U.S. Air Force
Cold War:

Hans Hassenberg

U.S. Coast Guard

 
Topics. This memorial is listed in these topic lists: War, 2nd IraqWar, ColdWar, VietnamWar, World II.
 
Location. 41° 53.205′ N, 87° 58.226′ W. Marker is in Villa Park, Illinois, in DuPage County. Memorial is at the intersection of East Kenilworth Avenue and South Myrtle Avenue, on the right when traveling west on East Kenilworth Avenue. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 318 East Kenilworth Avenue, Villa Park IL 60181, United States of America. Touch for directions.
 
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 3 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies. Dr. L.R. Cortesi (a few steps from this marker); The Great Western Trail (about 400 feet away, measured in a direct line); Villa Historic Landmark District (about 400 feet away); Villa Park Historical Museum (about 500 feet away); Bicentennial Fountain (approx. 1.6 miles away); Chicago Great Western Railway Depot (approx. 1.6 miles away); Votes For Women (approx. 2½ miles away); Berkeley Veterans Memorial (approx. 3 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Villa Park.
 
More about this marker. The round veterans memorial features
Cortesi Veterans Memorial Park image. Click for full size.
Photographed By Sean Flynn, April 12, 2024
2. Cortesi Veterans Memorial Park
five plaques affixed to concrete ballards, dedicated to each of the five arms of the U.S. Armed Forces. A separate marker about park namesake "Doc" Cortesi can be found in the park about a hundred feet northwest of here
 
Cortesi Veterans Memorial Park image. Click for full size.
Photographed By Sean Flynn, April 12, 2024
3. Cortesi Veterans Memorial Park
Cortesi Veterans Memorial Park image. Click for full size.
Photographed By Sean Flynn, April 12, 2024
4. Cortesi Veterans Memorial Park
Cortesi Veterans Memorial Park image. Click for full size.
Photographed By Sean Flynn, April 12, 2024
5. Cortesi Veterans Memorial Park
Cortesi Veterans Memorial Park image. Click for full size.
Photographed By Sean Flynn, April 12, 2024
6. Cortesi Veterans Memorial Park
Cortesi Veterans Memorial Park flagpole base image. Click for full size.
Photographed By Sean Flynn, April 12, 2024
7. Cortesi Veterans Memorial Park flagpole base
Cortesi Veterans Memorial Park image. Click for full size.
Photographed By Sean Flynn, April 12, 2024
8. Cortesi Veterans Memorial Park
Villa Park's old post office is visible in this south-facing photo of the veterans memorial.
 
 
Credits. This page was last revised on April 14, 2024. It was originally submitted on April 14, 2024, by Sean Flynn of Oak Park, Illinois. This page has been viewed 47 times since then. Photos:   1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. submitted on April 14, 2024, by Sean Flynn of Oak Park, Illinois.

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