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Munising in Alger County, Michigan — The American Midwest (Great Lakes)
 

Alger County All Veterans Memorial

POW – MIA, You Are Not Forgotten

 
 
Alger County All Veterans Memorial Marker image. Click for full size.
Photographed by J. J. Prats, August 3, 2024
1. Alger County All Veterans Memorial Marker
Inscription.
World War I, 1917 – 1918. Nickodemus Ahola • Loval Willard Andersen • Homer J Bleau • John Boreson • Edward Brisson • Harley Hoy • Earl Lambert • Rhoderick G Prato • George Larsen • Oscar Mattson • Russell Logan McDougall

World War II, 1941 – 1945. Tovio Alto • Emil G Gartosh • Francis Burke • Burl Chase • Donald R Christ • Richard I Coffman • Charles R Cook • Alvin E Courter • Raymond F Dakin • Carlo A Erickson • Toivo W Erickson • Lowell J Fournier • Harry Frelich • Raymond Gravelle • Ralph Leo Gunville • Waino Hautala • Lewis Hood • Romney F Horner • Eino Hupala • Arvid Jarvi • Warner J Keating • Eino E Kinnunen • Albin Knaus • Henry Knaus • Donald Maki • Lawrence Methot • Vergil Monroe • Geralk G Morin • William Kenneth Ouellette • Anthony Pawielski • Urho V Pitkamaki • William C Powell • Sulo Rantanen • Aaro Jikkala • Wilho W Ridell • Ralph R Risku • Leo R Robinjon • Charles L Senecal • Arthur A Seppanen • Ralph C Skinner • Toivo M Stone • Leslie Sylvester Tervo • Melvin Howard Tweedale • Uno E Vahamaki • William J Vertz • Leonard J Viau • Harold P Webber • William Morris Wise • John W Zbacnik

Korea, 1950 – 1953. Eugene Cota • David E Depew • Elton E Thurnander • Edward F Perry • John Ylinen

Vietnam,
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1964 – 1975.
Tommy J Becker • Paul C Bovan • Michael Ferzacca • William L Douglas • Bruce Michael Johnson • William Vincent Moore • Martin Roy Niemi • Vernon C Wilderspin • Terry D Shauver • Roger Lee Tallman • Brian L Thornton • Theodore Texas Rowley•
 
Topics. This memorial is listed in these topic lists: War, KoreanWar, VietnamWar, World IWar, World II.
 
Location. 46° 24.701′ N, 86° 39.072′ W. Memorial is in Munising, Michigan, in Alger County. It is on Veterans Drive east of Maple Street, on the left when traveling east. Touch for map. Memorial is at or near this postal address: 304 Veterans Dr, Munising MI 49862, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this memorial is on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. It is also in the American Midwest, on the Great Lakes, and on Lake Superior’s South Shore Region. Globally, it is in North America, the Great North Woods, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once the Northwest Territory.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 4 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Shipwrecks of the Alger Underwater Preserve (about 600 feet away, measured in a direct line); Munising Public Dock (approx. 0.2 miles away); S.S. Kiowa Wreck (approx. Ό mile away); Russell A. Alger (approx. 0.3 miles away); In Memory of the Men and Women of Alger County (approx. 0.6 miles away); Munising Falls (approx. 1.6 miles away); Location is Everything! (approx. 3.3 miles away); What’s Old? What’s New? (approx. 3.3 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Munising.
 
Alger County All Veterans Memorial image. Click for full size.
Photographed by J. J. Prats, August 3, 2024
2. Alger County All Veterans Memorial
Alger County Veterans Memorial Park image. Click for full size.
Photographed by J. J. Prats, August 3, 2024
3. Alger County Veterans Memorial Park
The memorial is on the waterfront on Lake Superior’s South Bay in Munising Michigan.
Vietnam War Soldier image. Click for full size.
Photographed by J. J. Prats, August 3, 2024
4. Vietnam War Soldier
The statue is signed “Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 237, Munising Michigan.” The sculptor's name is not shown.
Alger County All Veterans Memorial image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Dan Reynard, July 2, 2016
5. Alger County All Veterans Memorial
 
 
Credits. This page was last revised on December 28, 2024. It was originally submitted on August 29, 2024, by J. J. Prats of Powell, Ohio. This page has been viewed 457 times since then and 32 times this year. Photos:   1, 2, 3, 4. submitted on August 29, 2024, by J. J. Prats of Powell, Ohio.   5. submitted on December 17, 2024, by Dan Reynard of Bellevue, Wisconsin.
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Jun. 28, 2026