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Dent in Otter Tail County, Minnesota — The American Midwest (Upper Plains)
 

Dent Veterans Memorial Park

 
 
Dent Veterans Memorial Park Marker image. Click for full size.
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1. Dent Veterans Memorial Park Marker
Inscription.
All Gave Some, Some Gave All
Dedicated to all past, present and future veterans, who have or will serve their country.

Messages hidden in the structure:
Diagonal bricks : The Air Force flying
Upright bricks : Soldiers and sailors standing
Inward bricks : Missing in action and prisoners of war
Horizontal bricks : Those who returned in caskets
V joints commemorate victory in Europe
May 8, 1945
S.A.L. Ev Mostue

Second pillar from left, front:
Lavern Staley Army WWII · Robert Fick Army 1917-1919 · James Fick USAF 1943-1946 · Robert Fick Navy 1959-1963 · Cory I. Orvik Army 1975-2003 · Kermit Ashland USAF 1950-1953 · Richard Lamb USAF 1943-1945 · James Toronto Navy 1950-1954 · Ralph Maxwell Army 1941-1945 · David Adams Army 1966-1972 · Robert Dickerson Navy 1952-1956 · Francis T. Wines Army 1963-1966 · Diane Shields USAF 1986-1989 · Michael Shields Navy 1966-1968 · Robert R. Beller Army 1945-1947 · Marion Gill Army 1955-1964 · Paul J. Riewer Navy 1965-1993 · Foster Strand USAF 1982-1986 · Dorothy Wacker Army 1950-1951 · James Lee USAF-Army 1962-1969 · Vern H. Swanson USAF
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1942-1945 · Theodore Buechler Navy 44-46 · William E. Maki USAF 1958-1961 · Melvin Yager Navy 1958-1961 · John P. Condon USAF 1944-1946 · Dana Loken Army 1966-1968 · Kenneth J. Wick Navy 1958-1964 · Laurence Stenger Army 1954-1956 · Leroy Atkinson Army 1953-1955 · Marlin Jorgenson USAF 1968-1970 · Ronald Loerzel Army 1970-1976 · Josh Hanson Army 1997-2006 KIA

Second pillar from left, back:
William Nerdahl Navy 1965-1969 · Geo. Perszyk Army-NDANG 1959-1990 · John Pinkowski Army 1942-1945 · Hubert Post Army WWII · Hugh Smith Army 1941-1945 · Marlin Hoffman Navy 1942-1945 · Marvin A. Umlauf Army-AF 44-53 · Allan F. Umlauf Army 1962-1964 · James M. Umlauf USMC 1956-1958 · Milo R. Umlauf USAF 1956-1959 · Elmer Fresonke Army 1951-1953 · Mathias Winkels Army 1943-1946 · Leo J. Winkels Army 1944-1946 · Danial Winkels USAF 1977-1984 · Lawrence E. Smith Army WWII · Richard Honer Army 1968-1971 · George Martodam USMC 1942-1945 · Lawrence Scully Army 1959-1961 · Frank Menz Army 1940-1944 · Richard Grundy USAF 1950-1954 · Stanley Silbernagel Army 1957-1959 · James Silbernagel USAF
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2. Second Pillar from Left, Front
1949-1953 · Arnold L. Harms Army 1942-1946 · Lawrence Stoderl Army 1918-1919 · Kenneth V. Pream Navy 1962-1966 · Dennis Dusterhoft Army 1944-1964 · Rosella Dusterhoft Navy 1958-1962 · Ronald Dusterhoff Navy 1962-1968 · Raymond Fiedler Army 1955-1957 · Lawrence Fiedler Army 1945-1946 · Earl E. Rydell USAF 1966-1970 · Joseph B. Rydell Army 1994-2002

Third pillar from left, front:
To Endure
John R. Perszyk Army 1917-1918 · Michael E. Lange USMC 1973-1983 · James Nelson Navy 1955-1958 · George Harthun AAF 1942-1946 · Alfred Fresonke Army 1959-1965 · Garry Menz Navy 1967-1993 · Harold Locken USAF 1949-1953 · Michael V. Sepp Army 1951-1953 · William J. Moltzan Army 1957-68 KIA · Mark J. Emard Army 1943-1946 · Erwin Post Navy 1956-1965 · Wayne Slotten Navy 1945-1946 · Michael J. Sazama Army 1958-1960 · Doug Hovey USMC-USAF 1960-1994 · Nancy Hovey USAF 1980-2000 · Fred Stoering Army 1914-1918 · Edward Stoering Army WWII MIA · Alfred Silbernagel Army 1945-1947 · William Luedtke Army 1968-1971 · Robert Luedtke AAF 1943-1945 · Robert Luedtke Jr. Army 1969-1971 · James Luedtke USAF
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3. Second Pillar from Left, Back
1977-1981 · William E. Moltzan Army 1917-1919 · Tom Beller Navy 1972-1993 · Neal Shaw Navy 1968-1974 · Norbert Ditterick Army 1942-1945 · Carl W. Seifert Army 1953-1955 · Charles Trapp Army 1940-1945 · Herbert Tenter Navy 1945-1946 · Theo Buechler Sr. Army 1917-1919

Third pillar from left, back:
Willard Weegman Navy 1944-1946 · Leonard Weegman USAF 1942-1946 · Clifford Weegman Army 1942-1945 · Vernon Weegman Army 1942-1945 · Elmer Moberg Army 1918-1919 · William Moberg Army 1961-1964 · Adolph Moberg Army 1943-1946 · Claude Moberg Navy 1943-1945 · Donald Moberg Army 1955-1958 · Myron Moberg Army 1950-1953 · Jerald Swanson Army 1965-1967 · Samuel C. Smith Army 1923-1947 · Kenneth E. Smith USAF 1954-1958 · Gerald D. Gorentz Army 1955-1956 · Clinton Neu Army 1945-1946 · Maynard Ott Army 1952-1977 · Anthony Honer Navy 1984-1990 · Darlene Honer Army 1993-1997 · Timothy Honer Navy 1973-1977 · Thomas Honer Army 1990-1996 · Dale Honer Army 1966-1968 · John Mager Army 1944-1946 · Alvin Loop Army 1941-1945 · Jack Kimple USNCB 1945-1946 · Dallas Kimple Army 1917-1918 · William Moore Army WWII POW
Third Pillar from Left, Front image. Click for full size.
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4. Third Pillar from Left, Front
· Charles Vogel Army 1961-1963 · Garold Benke Army 1961-1964 · Ronald A. Honer Army 1963-1966 · Franklin Vogel Army 1963-1967 · Larry Menz Navy 1967-1970 · Lloyd L. Schmidt Army WWII

Fourth pillar from left, front:
To Honor
Patrick Necas Army 1974-1976 · Norbert Ewals Army 1942-1945 · Jerry Stender USMC 1951-1954 · Thomas Auchlin Army 1945-1946 · Stanley H. Voigt Navy 1943-1946 · Theodore W. Voigt Navy 1942-1961 · Julian W. Voigt USA 1942-1945 · Kenneth W. Voigt Navy 1981-2001 · Walter Fick Army 1941-1945 KIA · Harold Fick Army 1942-1944 KIA · Erv Wegscheid Army 1952-1955 · Edward Genoch Army 1963-1966 · Bruce A. Braaten Navy 1968-1971 · Vernon Fiedler Army 1951-1952 · Dale F. Brasel Army 1959-1962 · Darvin Kedinger Army 1956-1963 · Kent Meader Army 1963-1965 · Arthur M. Mostue Army WWII · Jerome A. Herman USNCB 1954-1958 · Donald W. Seifert Navy 1950-1954 · Mike Seifert USAF 1981-1986 · Curtis K. Kong USAF 1984-2004 · Fay L. Botts Army 1945-1947 · Norman F. Schultz Army 1945-1951 · George Fick Army 1953-1955 · Morris Martinson Army 1966-1967 · Victor Rehborg Army
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5. Third Pillar from Left, Back
1944-1946 · Melvin Ternus Army 1968-1969 · John Werner, Sr. Army 1954-1956 · Walter Januszewski Army 1953-1955

Fourth pillar from left, back:
Michael L. Hamann USN 1972-1974 · Raymond A. Wines Army 1967-1969 · Palmer Pederson Army 1941-1945 · Marvin Harthun USN 1967-1973 · James B. Rehbein Army 1944-1946 · Norbert Doll USA WWII · Gerald Doll USN 1967-1987 · Dick Meader Army 1965-1967 · James J. Strauch Army 1960-1966 · Howard L. Williams Navy 1942-1945 · Darrel L. Williams Navy 1967-1988 · Donald W Rose USAF 1945-1953 · Larry C Olson US Army 1966-1972 · William Eckert US Navy 1944-1947 · Ronald Bjelland US Navy 1956-1969 · Edward Petru Army 1959-1966 · Eugene Falk Army 1968-1969 · Dewayne L Collins US Army 1953-1955 · Merle L Collins US Army WWII 1941-1946 · Robert L Collins US Army WWII 1943-1945 · John R. Wendt Army 1918-1919 WWI · Mike Betterman Army 1966-1968 · Joe Betterman USMC 1973-1972 · Burl Adams Army 1941-1945 · Dennis Reynolds Army 1961-1965 · Michael R. Scouton USAF 1955-1963 · Russell Wagenman USN 1993-2019 · Robert Wagenman USN 1993-2018 · Donald Niccum
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6. Fourth Pillar from Left, Front
Army 1953-1955 · Arlyn Niccum Army 1953-1955 · Harold Miller US Navy 1955-1957 · Andrew Moberg USMC 2012-2019

Fourth pillar from right, front:
Haimerl Dent Legion Post 148
Charter
Fred H. Meader WWI · Leonhard tetzlaff WWI · Eric Dusterhoff WWI · Harold Jenne WWI · Hilner Hancock WWI · Julius Rohde WWI · John Harthun WWI · William Diederichs WWI · Theodore Harthun WWI · Tony Martinson WWI · Andrew G. Hanson WWI · Alois P. Dwyer WWI · Paul Stender WWI · John P. Dwyer WWI · Gotlieb Sabin WWI
Walter A. Haimerl 1918 KIA WWI · Norbert "Bee" Hertel Army 43-46 · Curtis Abbott Navy 1961-1965 · Alois Winkels Army 1941-1945 · Robert Seifert Army 1984-2010 · Louis Stoll USMC 1952 · Gerald Miller Army 1942-1945 · Erbin Koelln Army 1941-1945 · Thomas Voigt USAF 1970-1993 · Irvin Voigt USAF 1942-1945 · Mike Perszyk Navy WWI · Joseph Jaroszewski Army 1959-1961 · Sigurd Galland Army WWII

Fourth pillar from right, back:
Robert W. Schmidt Army 1967-1969 · Robert R. Tix USAF 1971-1972 · Oliver Allen Civil War · William Brooks Civil War · Jacob Chaffee Civil War · William
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7. Fourth Pillar from Left, Back
Claypool Civil War · Andrew Cummings Civil War · Dallas Elmore Civil War · George Forsyth Civil War · M. Fullerton Civil War · Christopher Olson Civil War · Nelson Preston Civil War · Joseph Sherwood Civil War · George Smith Civil War · Robert Moore Civil War · Rueben Pete Benke USAF WWII · Bill Benke Army Vietnam · Herbert Benke Army WWII · Thomas Gene Benke Navy 1952-1956 · Walt Petru USMC-Army 1966-2010 · John Petru Army 1972-1983 · Curtis Lodin Army 1967-1969 · Merrill E. Schwanke Army WWII · Alvin F. Schwanke USNCB WWII · Emil J. Schwanke USMC Korea · Donald R. Schwanke Army Korea · Thomas Nelson Army 1954-1956 · W. Harley Davis Navy 1948-1968 · Ronald Bjelland US Navy 1965-1969 · Mike Betterman Army 1966-1968 · Joe Betterman USMC 1968-1972 · Albert A. Rotta Army 1942-1945

Third pillar from right, front:
To Remember
Arvid Eken Army 1951-1953 · Carl Trites Army 1942-1945 · Arthur J. Sazama Army 1967-1969 · Frank Hammers Army 1943-1946 · Manuel R. Masters Navy 1956-1966 · Dennis Hoffman USNR 1972-1986 · Karen Doran Army 1970-1971 · Dennis Doran Army 1970-1971
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8. Fourth Pillar from Right, Front
· Mark T. Lorentz Army 1946-1947 · James Szarke USAF 1957-1961 · Van Kalinoski USAF 1967-1971 · Duane Bjelland Navy 1950-1953 · Dorvin Wendt Army 1957-1963 · Robert L. Whitman USAF 1952-1964 · Raymond Egge Navy 1942-1945 · Daniel Darco Army 1944-1946 · Norbert Rosenthal Army 1944-1946 · Richard Lillis USMC 1946-1966 KIA · Bud Honer Army 1955-1957 · Daniel Barry Army 1966-1968 · Leo Goodman USCG 1941-1945 · Emil Moltzan Army 1918-1919 · Chas. Silbernagel Army 1952-1954 · Dexter Femling Navy 1945-1946 · Nick Jaroszewski Army 1917-1919 · Ervin Fresonke Army 1951-1954 · Shari Fresonke USAF 1982-2006 · Len Johnson Navy 1960-1963 · Fred Sonnenberg Army 1918-1919 · John S. Perszyk Navy 1940-1942

Third pillar from right, back:
John Esser USAF 1948-1953 · Kenneth Stangenes USMC 1966-1969 · Everett H. Albers Navy WWII · Ormand H. True USAF 1943-1945 · Lloyd L. Koesling Army 1943-1945 · Duane W. Hanson Army 1951-1954 · Lyle H. Tenter Navy 1944-1946 · Jeff Dickerson Army 1981-2002 · Joseph Delaney Navy 1945-1946 · Loren Koesling Army 1942-1945 · Aubrey Butler Navy 1942-1946 · Clinton Ott Army KIA
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9. Fourth Pillar from Right, Back
· Kenneth Strauch USMC 1986-1992 · Christine Strauch USAF 1984-2006 · Claude Strauch Army 1960-1962 · Lyle K. Swanson USAF 1958-1978 · William E. Swanson USAF 1960-1964 · Richard W. Wilcox Army 1967-1970 · Charles Meyer Army 1963-1965 · Michael Koelln Navy 1984-1988 · Ardon Koelln Army 1948-1953 · Virgel E. Tableman Army WWII · Franklin D. Keeling Navy 1955-1976 · Bernard Meyer Army 1941-1945 · Errol Hexum Army 1953-1955 · Kenny Harrom Navy 1969-1973 · Harold L. Graves Army 1940-1945 POW · Aldon Shea AAF 1943-1945 · Paul Shea USAF 1952-1966 · Benjamin Schmidt USAF 2001-2007 · Larry O. Schmidt Army 1967-1970 · Patrick Kirchenwitz USMC 1987-1992

Second pillar from right, front:
Oscar Peterson Army 1918-1919 · Fred A. Peterson Army 1918-1919 · Raymond Honer Army 1953-1955 · Floyd Harthun Army 1942-1946 · George C. Smith AAF 1942-1943 · Don Hohenstein USAF 1949-1952 · Cordes Engel Navy 1944-1946 · William L. Stoderl Navy 1945-1947 · James Stoderl USAF 1971-1976 · Irvin C. Klinger Army 1941-1945 · Gary Honer Army 1962-1968 · John Silbernagel Army 1942-1946 · Oscar "Bud"
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10. Third Pillar from Right, Front
Elkins Army 1917-1919 · Marcus Kmoch Navy 1944-1946 · Norman J. Kmoch Army 1953-1954 · Frederick Buechler Army 1946-1948 · Anton Cichy Army 1941-1945 POW · Edward A. Hammers USMC 1942-1945 · Robert Hammers USMC 1952-1960 · Al Lachowitzer Navy 1956-1962 · Norb Lachowitzer USMC 1952-1960 · Kermit Larson Army 1943-1946 · Joseph S. Basile Army 1948-1952 · John Doll Army 1962-1966 · John P. Stoll Army 1990-  · Eugene J. Stoll Army 1951-1953 · Arnold Rethemeier Army 1969-2000 · Lucas Schmitz Army 2004-2007 · Robert Shields Navy 1942-1946 · John Hertel Army 1941-1946 · Reynold Fick Navy WWII · Vernon Danielson Navy WWII

Second pillar from right, back:
Gary Kalinoski Army 1968-1969 · James Teeple Jr. Navy 1946-1948 · Harold Woods Army 1946-1947 · Clarence Peterson Army 1955-1956 · Clifford Zitzow Army 1942-1945 · Joe Waldorf Army 1945 · Marvin Johnson Army 1954-1957 · Donald H. Cole Army WWII · Marlyn Beiningen USAF 1950-1976 · Ralph Rennpage Army 1918-1919 · Del Hoffman Army 1949-1974 · Henry A. Fresonke WWI KIA · Fred I. Smith Navy 1941-1949 · Lawler H. Olson Army 1943-1946
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11. Third Pillar from Right, Back
· Philip Stoderl Army 2001-2010 · Don Garber Army 1958-1960 · Timothy Wacker Army 1974-1977 · Kent Alm Army 1946-1952 · Robert Walde Jr. USAF 1958-1962 · Sonny Hunter USAF 1951-1965 · Jerome Hilgers Army 1961-1964 · Joe Sazama AF-Army 1952-88 · Joe Sazama Sr. Army 1918-1919 · Adolph Wagemnam Army 1942-1943 · Raymond Mounts Army 1953-1955 · Charles Kirchenwitz Navy 1960-1963 · William I. Swanson 1941-1945 · Paul C. Seifert USAF 1951-1955 · Lloyd A. Harthun Army 1942-1945 · Robert D. Ronning Navy 1963-1967 · Robert H. Johnson Army 1941-1945 · Howard Nerdahl Army 1942-1943

Far right pillar, front:
Stephen G Kunz USN 1966-1969 · Herald R Radi USAF 1950-1954 · Henry Ditterich USArmy 1968-1970 · James Scott USA 1971-1997
 
Erected 2010 by American Legion Post No. 148.
 
Topics. This memorial is listed in this topic list: Military.
 
Location. 46° 33.384′ N, 95° 43.156′ W. Memorial is in Dent, Minnesota, in Otter Tail County. It is on State Highway 108 east of 1st Avenue North (County Highway 35), on the right when traveling east. Touch for map.
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12. Second Pillar from Right, Front
Memorial is in this post office area: Dent MN 56528, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this memorial is in the American Midwest and in the Corn Belt. Globally, it is in North America, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once Rupert’s Land, the territory of the Mississippian Culture, and the Louisiana Purchase.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 12 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Dent (within shouting distance of this marker); Arrival of the Northern Pacific Railway at Perham (approx. 7.4 miles away); Perham (approx. 7.4 miles away); Maine (approx. 11 miles away); Otter Tail City (approx. 11.2 miles away); Otter Tail City & Ottertail Village (approx. 11.2 miles away); First County Seat of Otter Tail County (approx. 11.2 miles away); Delbert Thalmann Park (approx. 11.9 miles away).
 
More about this memorial. Both sides of the pillar on the far left are blank. The back of the far right pillar is also blank.
 
Also see . . .  Dent Veterans Memorial completed - Perham Focus. (Submitted on December 6, 2024.)
 
Second Pillar from Right, Back image. Click for full size.
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13. Second Pillar from Right, Back
Far Right Pillar, Front image. Click for full size.
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14. Far Right Pillar, Front
Dent Veterans Memorial Park image. Click for full size.
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15. Dent Veterans Memorial Park
 
 
Credits. This page was last revised on December 6, 2024. It was originally submitted on December 6, 2024. This page has been viewed 398 times since then and 25 times this year. Photos:   1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15. submitted on December 6, 2024.
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