Joplin in Jasper County, Missouri — The American Midwest (Upper Plains)

Joplin Korean War and Vietnam War Memorial

Joplin Korean and Vietnam Wars Memorial image. Click for full size.

Photographed by William Fischer, Jr., June 26, 2010

1. Joplin Korean and Vietnam Wars Memorial

Inscription.
In memory of our heroic combat dead of the
Korean and Vietnam Conflicts

Korean
Harold L. Terry • Jimmie E. Barcom
William M. Barnard • Otis C. Carpenter
James A. Harris • David L. Johnson
Charles R. Landon • Robert F. Wilson
Donald D. Younger • Harold E. Wood
Walter E. Thorpe, Jr. • James E. Thorpe
Nolan Lord • Jack D. Gaines
William L. McHorney • Jack W. Rodarme
Ray Smith

Vietnam
Chester C. Carrico, Jr. • Daniel L. Sherman
Tommy Hill • Gordon L. Sargent
William J. Johnson • Jerry D. Stewart
Dale E. Shirley • Donald G. Cleaver
Roy J. Day • Larry D. Pliler
Robert J. Ruhl, Jr. • Monty R. Sewell
Nicholas R. Procino • Harold L. Carver
Jimmy D. Hatfield • Clark L. Henson, Jr.
Charles B. Horton • Gary D. Hudson
Robert G. Kimberley • Virgil M. Ledford
Jon A. Rippee • James N. Finn
Joe R. Whitted

Dedicated
May 30, 1973

Erected 1973.

Topics. This memorial is listed in these topic lists: Patriots & Patriotism • War, Korean • War, Vietnam.

Location. 37° 4.955′ N, 94° 30.936′ W. Memorial is in Joplin, Missouri, in Jasper County. It is at the intersection of Wall Avenue and West 8th Street, on the left when traveling south on Wall Avenue. Memorial is on the west grounds of Memorial Hall. Touch for map. Memorial is at or near this postal address: 212 West 8th Street, Joplin MO 64801, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this memorial is in Southwest Missouri. It is also in the American Lewis & Clark Corridor

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 territory of the Mississippian Culture,

the Louisiana Purchase,

and the Antebellum South.

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8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker: Joplin World War II Memorial (within shouting distance of this marker); Jasper County Courthouse (approx. 0.2 miles away); Swartz & Malsbury Building (approx. 0.3 miles away); Quinby Building (approx. 0.4 miles away); Joplin (approx. 0.4 miles away); The Connor Hotel (approx. 0.4 miles away); Birds Eye View of Joplin 1877 (approx. ¾ mile away); Discovery of Lead (approx. 0.8 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Joplin.

Joplin Korean War and Vietnam War Memorial image. Click for full size.

Photographed by William Fischer, Jr., June 26, 2010

2. Joplin Korean War and Vietnam War Memorial

Memorial Hall in background.

Joplin Korean War Honor Roll image. Click for full size.

Photographed by William Fischer, Jr., June 26, 2010

3. Joplin Korean War Honor Roll

Photographed by William Fischer, Jr., June 26, 2010

4. Joplin Korean War Honor Roll

Joplin Vietnam War Honor Roll image. Click for full size.

Photographed by William Fischer, Jr., June 26, 2010

5. Joplin Vietnam War Honor Roll

Photographed by William Fischer, Jr., June 26, 2010

6. Joplin Vietnam War Honor Roll

Credits. This page was last revised on June 16, 2016. It was originally submitted on August 29, 2010, by William Fischer, Jr. of Reynoldsburg, Ohio. This page has been viewed 1,764 times since then and 37 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. submitted on August 29, 2010, by William Fischer, Jr. of Reynoldsburg, Ohio.