Piqua in Miami County, Ohio — The American Midwest (Great Lakes)

Piqua Veterans Memorial

Photographed by William Fischer, Jr., March 6, 2009

1. Piqua Veterans Memorial

Inscription.
French And Indian Conflict • Revolutionary War • Northwest Territory Conflictse • War of 1812 • Mexican War • Civil War • Western Indian Wars • Spanish-American War • Philippine Conflict • Mexican Border Conflict • World War I • Nicaragua Incursion • World War II • Korean Conflict • Vietnam Conflict • Dominican Republic Incursion • Persian Gulf War • Iraq-Afghanistan War

Let our object be our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country. And, by the blessing of God, may that country itself become a vast and splendid monument, not of oppression and terror, but of wisdom, of peace, and of liberty, upon which the world may gaze with admiration forever.
- Daniel Webster

World War I
Samuel N. Chaney • James E. Downey • George J. Freihofer • Cloyd D. Funderburg • George C. Graham • Ralph M. Kerr • John J. Layman • Walter Lurance • Allen G. Mauchamer • Gordon Pauley • Grover Pence • Gus Joseph Pequignot • Edward J. Rousseau • Kenneth L. Savage • Herman August Schmidt • Paul Schnell • Charles B. White • Vernon White • Frank Williams • Robert William McKenney

World War II
James N. Asher • Melvin J. Ball • James Sylvester Baumann • Robert E. Beasecker • Frank L. Beaver • Robert C. Benz • John Berman • Charles Harold Black • Clifford Blacke • Robert Lee Brant • John H. Brewer • Robert F. Brower • Patrick L. Brown • Norman R. Bryan • Willard E. Burkett • Jack H. Coburn • William E. Cole • Alfred Elmo Cooper • Martin Couchot • Virgil E. Coyne • Robert J. Cromer • Jack C. Cummins • Thomas J. Danford • Donald M. Dawson • Edward C. Dye • Leo Carl Eisert • Alexander Ellerman III • George L. Elliott • George W. Ewing • Frederick H. Faber • Donald M. Felver • Richard J. Fitzsimmons • Alfred L. Flesh Jr. • William Forsythe Jr. • Raymond S. Freeman • William Mckee Freshour • Raymond C. Fry Jr. •

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Edward F. Gaier • James Gallaway • Robert William Gearheart • Robert S. Graef • Zane Gray • Floyd L. Groves • William Murray Harris • Emery Wray Heaton • Ralph Everett Heffner • Clifford Leroy Hewatt • Charles Richard Hilliard • Vernon Francis Huecker • Robert E. Houdeshell • Walter Lewis Huffman • Robert Johnson • John Keys • David Arthur Kiefer • William Myrle Kiesewetter • Donovan Knight • John B. Lemmon • Dick Libbee • Fredrex George Lillicrap • A.W. Loewi • Maurice M. Long • Harold Marchal • Richard Frederick Meiring • James V. Moniaci • Edward G. Morlock Jr. • Andrew J. Mullin • Vernon C. Mullin • Paul Lee Negley • Ronald E. Osgood • William Warren Peters Jr. • Glenn W. Pitman • Richard F. Potts • Delver O Ray • George I. Rehmert • Jack E. Ross, Robert B. Rue • Elbert Morgan Ruffner • Harold J. Sauers • James L. Orput • David H. Scholl • Richard August Seipel • John Shellabarger • James Elson Sherwood • Ollie Leo Sippel • Kenneth L. Smith • Robert L. Smith Jr. • Robert H. Snow • Sylvester J. Snyder • Alex Wilson Stoute • Alfred Strasser • Homer Stutsman • Kenneth I. Thompson • John L. Walters Jr. • Clarence Harold Woods • Martin

Piqua Veterans Memorial World Wars I and II Honor Roll image. Click for full size.

Photographed by William Fischer, Jr., March 6, 2009

2. Piqua Veterans Memorial World Wars I and II Honor Roll

M. Trydell • Robert Joseph Wack • John C. Westfall Jr. • Edward Wirrig • Herbert O. Wright • Dale B. Young • James K. Young • Daniel H. Yount • Robert L. Ziegler • Paul Zink

Korean Conflict
Maurice J. Berning • Adelbert Blue • Dean C. Bundschuh • Elwood L. Ditmer • Dominic Salvatore Gentile • James Richard Hess • Dale R. Jones • Harry Lee Lawrence • Carl Obringer Jr. • Richard Lee O'Roark • Donald Eugene Pritchard • John H. Smith • Darel E. Tamplin • Herbert Eugene Tamplin Jr. • Donald Dale Zea

Vietnam Conflict
James R. Brown • Donald E. Byrum • Billy R. Cain • Joseph A. Caulfield • Harry Andrew Cotterman • Donald Dix • Rendle Dulen • John A. Durham • Keith E. Haney • Michael D. Jaqua • Charles Thomas Jones • Steven D. Karnehm • David Scott Kingrey • Charles Marion Koon • John M. Page • William H. Pitsenbarger • James T. Rush • Victor R. Scheeler • Dennis L. Siler • Ronald K. Staneart • Philip Wenrick • Paul S. Voress

Iraq- Afghanistan War
Samuel F. Pearson • Randy M. Haney • Richard M. Davis • Kyle J. Gantt
(Central America)

Topics. This memorial is listed in these topic lists: Military • War, Vietnam • War, World I

Piqua Veterans Memorial Korea, Vietnam, Iraq-Afghanistan Honor Roll image. Click for full size.

Photographed by William Fischer, Jr., March 6, 2009

3. Piqua Veterans Memorial Korea, Vietnam, Iraq-Afghanistan Honor Roll

• War, World II.

Location. 40° 9.857′ N, 84° 15.319′ W. Memorial is in Piqua, Ohio, in Miami County. It is at the intersection of Broadway (Ohio Route 66) and Washington Avenue, on the left when traveling north on Broadway. Memorial is across Washington Avenue from Forest Hill Union Cemetery. Touch for map. Memorial is at or near this postal address: 1796 Broadway, Piqua OH 45356, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this memorial is in Ohio’s Dayton Metro,

in the Miami Valley,

and in the Till Plains.

It is also 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 the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy,

the territory of the Mississippian Culture,

and the Northwest Territory.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker: Piqua's Vietnam Home Front / William H. Pitsenbarger (a few steps from this marker); Honor Log (a few steps from this marker); Tuskegee Airmen Memorial

Photographed by William Fischer, Jr., March 6, 2009

4. Piqua Veterans Memorial

Piqua's Vietnam Home Front / William H. Pitsenbarger historial marker in right background.

(a few steps from this marker); Airman First Class Pitsenbarger (a few steps from this marker); The History of Old Glory (within shouting distance of this marker); William H. Pitsenbarger (within shouting distance of this marker); Piqua (within shouting distance of this marker); Operation Silent Witness (within shouting distance of this marker). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Piqua.

Piqua Veterans Memorial Pavers image. Click for full size.

Photographed by William Fischer, Jr., March 6, 2009

5. Piqua Veterans Memorial Pavers

Showing other Pitsenbarger family veterans.

Credits. This page was last revised on June 27, 2025. It was originally submitted on March 24, 2009, by William Fischer, Jr. of Reynoldsburg, Ohio. This page has been viewed 1,933 times since then and 75 times this year. Last updated on June 20, 2025, by Craig Doda of Napoleon, Ohio. Photos: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. submitted on March 24, 2009, by William Fischer, Jr. of Reynoldsburg, Ohio. • Devry Becker Jones was the editor who published this page.

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