Richfield in Summit County, Ohio — The American Midwest (Great Lakes)

Richfield Veterans Memorial Park

Photographed by Craig Doda, February 28, 2026

1. Richfield Veterans Memorial Park Marker

Inscription.
The day the citizens of the United States forget to honor those who defended the principles this nation was founded on will be the day those freedoms will begin to fade.
Richfield Veterans Committee

The United States of America

Sacrifice
without
remembrance
is
meaningless.

World War I
John Mioduszewski US Army • Eugene Overacker US Army

World War II
US Army
William J Abrams • Linford Bud Heiser • Richard D Humphrey • Richard L Kauf • Melvin Knopp • Robert Lamson • John E Mitchel Jr • Raymond C Rauch • Robert Reinthal • Mike Rose • Raymond Spicher • Steve Sweden • Donald R Weber • Richard Young

USMC
Steve J Vari

US Army Air Force
Casmer Walter Lekowski • Louis Ramo Rafanelli

US Navy
William Frederick Strassburg Jr

Korean War
US Army
Clarence Harper • Vincent Lasorella

Vietnam War
US Army
Mark Eastwood • Raymond Alfred Haeme • Scot Summerville

The Great Seal of the State of Ohio

Ohio Governors
Arthur St. Clair • Edward Tiffin • Thomas Kirker • Samuel H Huntington • Return Jonathan Meigs Jr • Othneil Looker • Thomas Worthington • Ethan Allen Brown • Allen Trimble • Jeremiah Morrow • Allen Trimble

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• Duncan Mcarthur • Robert Lucas • Joseph Vance • Wilson Shannon • Thomas Corwin • Wilson Shannon • Thomas W Bartley • Mordecai Bartley • William Bebb • Seabury Ford • Reuben Wood • William Medill • Salmon Portland Chase • William Dennison Jr • David Tod • John Brough • Charles Anderson • Jacob Dolson Cox • Rutherford Birchard Hayes • Edwardfollansbee Noyes • William Allen • Rutherford Birchard Hayes • Thomas Lowry Young • Richard M Bishop • Charles Foster • George Hoadly • Joseph B Foraker • James Edwin Campbell • William McKinley • Asa S Bushnell • George Kilborn Nash • Myron T Herrick • John M Pattison • Andrew L Harris • Judson Harmon • James M Cox

Frank B Willis • James M Cox • Harry L Davis • A Victor Donahey • Myers Y Cooper • George White • Martin L Davey • John William Bricker • Frank J Lausche • Thomas J Herbert • Frank J Lausche • John William Brown • C William O'Neill • Michael V Disalle • James A Rhodes • John J Gilligan • James A Rhodes • Richard F Celeste • George V Voinovich • Nancy P Hollister • Robert A Taft II

POW - MIA
Live POWs Still Wait

Civil War
Union Infantry
Thomas Clifton 115th Regiment • William Davis

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2. Richfield Veterans Memorial Park Marker

Jr. 115th Regiment • Charles Goldwood 115th Regiment • William Hudson 104th Regiment • Thomas Jackson 72nd Regiment • William H. Jones 95th Regiment • John Knapp 54th Regiment • James Moore 178th Regiment • Corydon P. Payne 115th Regiment • Edward B. Reed 115th Regiment • John Smith 89th Regiment • Joseph Taylor 95th Regiment • Hawthorn Thompson 115th Regiment

World War II
Denzel Raines • Raymond Spicher, Msgt Us Army Air Corps

The Ultimate Sacrifice

WW II
Charles Harner • William Huth • John Jenkins • Raymond Rauch • Robert Welch

Vietnam
John Tyrrell

Purple Heart
WW II
Frank R Hacka • Charles Harner • William Huth • John Jenkins • Raymond Rauch • Robert Welch • Edwin A Wells

Korean War
William R Skowronski Army

Vietnam
John Tyrrell

Afghanistan
Robert L Gilbert II

United States Army

Freedom is the deepest and noblest
aspiration of human spirit.
Ronald Reagan

To be prepared for war is one
of the most effectual means of
preserving peace.
George Washington

United States Merchant Marine

There are no great men just great
challenges, which ordinary men,
out of necessity, are forced by
circumstances to meet.
Admiral William F. Bull Halsey

Men who have offered their lives for
their country know that patriotism
is not the fear of something; it is
the love of something.
Adlai Stevenson

United States Coast Guard
Semper Paratus
1790

The willingness with which our
young people are likely to serve in any
war, no matter how justified, shall be
directly proportional as to how they
perceive the veterans of earlier wars
were treated and appreciated by
their nation.
George Washington

All Americans are created equal
and owe equal allegiance to
their country.
General Colin Powell

Department of the Air Force
United States of America
MCMXLVII

Let every nation, whether it wishes
us well or ill, that we shall pay any price,
bear any burden, meet any hardship,
support any friend, oppose any foe, to
assure the survival and success of liberty.
John F. Kennedy

For your tomorrow
we gave our today.
J. Maxwell Edmonds

United States Navy

Ask not what your country can do for you.
Ask what you can do for your country.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Freedom is not free.
Harry Truman

United States Marine Corps

There never was a good war
or a bad peace
Benjamin Franklin

The eyes of the world are upon you.
The hope and prayers of liberty-loving
people everywhere march with you.
General Dwight D. Eisenhower

Erected 2005

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3. Richfield Veterans Memorial Park Marker

by Richfield Veterans Committee.

Topics. This memorial is listed in this topic list: Military.

Location. 41° 14.395′ N, 81° 39.309′ W. Memorial is in Richfield, Ohio, in Summit County. It is at the intersection of West Streetsboro Road (Ohio Route 303) and Broadview Road, on the right when traveling west on West Streetsboro Road. Touch for map. Memorial is at or near this postal address: 4663 OH-303, Richfield OH 44286, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this memorial is in Greater Cleveland

and in the Western Reserve.

It is also in the American Midwest.

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 4 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Employee Military Veterans Non-Residents (here, next to this marker); Purple Heart (a few steps from this marker); Sikh Gurdwara

Photographed by Craig Doda, February 28, 2026

4. Richfield Veterans Memorial Park Marker

(approx. half a mile away); West Richfield World War II Veterans Memorial (approx. half a mile away); West Richfield Veterans Memorial (approx. half a mile away); Captain Elijah Welton (approx. half a mile away); Brecksville Township’s First Settler (approx. 3 miles away); The Ahola Corporation (approx. 3.2 miles away).

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5. Richfield Veterans Memorial Park Marker

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6. Richfield Veterans Memorial Park Marker

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7. Richfield Veterans Memorial Park Marker

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8. Richfield Veterans Memorial Park Marker

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9. Richfield Veterans Memorial Park Marker

Credits. This page was last revised on August 26, 2026. It was originally submitted on August 19, 2026, by Craig Doda of Napoleon, Ohio. This page has been viewed 6 times since then. Photos: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. submitted on August 19, 2026, by Craig Doda of Napoleon, Ohio. 7, 8, 9. submitted on August 20, 2026, by Craig Doda of Napoleon, Ohio. • Devry Becker Jones was the editor who published this page.