Stillwater Veterans Memorial

Stillwater Veterans Memorial. . , Veterans Memorial , Dedicated 2004 , , These plaques form a Wall of Honor that bears the names of the more than 100 service personnel who attended Stillwater area schools and lost their lives in times of war. , Veterans, living or dead, whose names appear on the granite walkway pavers, have been honored by family of friends. , "Our heroes will live as long as they are remembered." , Civil War , , The War Between the States would see more Americans die in battle than any other war. , "No soldier, on any field, in this or any country, ever displayed grander heroism." , - General Winfield S. Hancock , Civil War , 1861 - 1865 , The War Between the States , William F. Bates, William Blackburn, George K. Campbell, Oscar L. Cornman, Paul R. Covoeizel, Gold T. Curtis, John B. Denneby, Adam Fansnaught, John E. Goundry, Charles H. Gove, August Koenig, Hiram Lawton, Enstice LeGarde, Louis Muller, Samuel B. Nickerson, Joseph Older, William S. Pierson, Andrew P. Quist, Charles F. Rowley, Ole Thompson , Spanish American War , 1898 , Remember the Maine , Paul J. Rhode , Spanish American War , America declares war on Spain after a United States ship is sunk in Cuba, leading to Spain losing Cuba and the Philippines. , "We have won so far at a heavy cost." , - Theodore Roosevelt , World War I , , America sends her sons and daughters to Europe to help the Allies defeat Imperial Germany and liberate France and Belgium from their invaders. , "Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being." , - Kahlil Gibran , World War I , 1914 - 1918 , The War to End All Wars , Emil Anderson, Earl W. Beauvals, Frank Benson, Walter R. Berglund, Atwood B. Comfort, Clarence Edgar Deaner, Jacob D. Dergelees, R.H. Gillstrom, Russell Greeder, Frank E. Hinds, Hesley E. Jensen, Herman Klatt, Julias J. Kramer, Fred W. Kroll, Arthur LaVine, Roy McKean, Neil M. Moen, Hans Nelson, Isaac T. Nelson, Herbert T. Olson, Dwight Smithson, Walter Strom, Lawrence W. Swanson , World War II , 1939 - 1945 , The Global War , Robert J. Adkins, Clarence J. Beer, Stanley L. Buckley, Donald Callahan, Harry L. Carlson, Clifford A. Cedarbloom, Gale A. Chatterton, Gerald Herbert Cowles, John Crimmins, Henry B. Cummins, John Davies, Robert E. Ecklund, Edward H. Effengham, George Eichenlaub, Robert A. Engstrom, Ludwig K. Falkum, James John Feely, Charles A. Frawley, Edgar Arthur Fritsche, William A. Glass, Harriet Gowen, Floyd O. Grove, Lawrence W. Gunderson, William L. Hallquist, John W. Irvine, Macleod Jones, Lauren L. Kelly, Warren Kendrick, Robert S. Kerr, Donald C.V. Larsen, Gerald R. Ulrick, Raymond V. Larson Jr., Curtis Julies Lee, Albert J. Lehmicke Jr., Herbert E. Loeber, Kenneth K. Lothson, Robert J. Lund, Robert Wm. Madsen, Richard L. Major, William C. McLaughlin, William J. McNulty, Richard J. Murphy, Giles Winton Owens, Harold G. Parnell, Herbert I. Piculell, Gale Elwyn Randall, Raymond R. Roettger Jr., Gordon Roland, Robert N. Rude, John J. Runk, William C. Rutherford, Francis I. Sampson, Paul Vernon Sanderson, James M. Schaffer, Everett Russell Sherman, Harold Mathias Soens, Robert L. Sontag, William J. Sutton, Gottlieb E. Swing, Roland Earl Thron, Norman E. Tweeten, Glenn V. Welander , World War II , , World War II witnessed the mightiest struggle the world has ever known - a global war waged against democracy by dictators in Europe and the Pacific. , "December 7, 1941 - a date which will live in infamy." , - Franklin D. Roosevelt , "What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal." , - Albert Pike , Korean War , The first major military conflict of the Cold War demonstrated that the United States could oppose localized Communist aggression without escalating into a nuclear world war. , "Our nation honors her uniformed sons and daughters who answered their country's call to defend a country they did not know and a people they had never met." , Inscription on the Korean War Memorial, Washington DC , Korean War , 1950 - 1953 , The Forgotten War , John Kingsley Conroy, James Alfred Illa, Lyle Henry Krienke, Eugene Arthur Lassen, Henry E.J. Lohmer, Lawrence Archie Nelson, Rollyn Edmund Palm , Vietnam War , 1959 - 1975 , The Helicopter War , Robert Darrel Aubin, Brian Charles Brown, Gary David Graber, John Edward Hansen, James Russell Hicks, David Robert Kink, Michael Joseph Koller, Lloyd Martin Kuehn, William Russell Mackey Jr., Jeremiah Daniel McGarry, Harold John Smith , Vietnam War , , Intervention in the South Vietnamese struggle against Communism drew the United States into an undeclared war, a war without front lines, a war against an elusive enemy. , "They became heroes because they recognized that some of the things they wanted to live for were also worth dying for." , - Steve Banko , Remember us. , We were our country's best. , Honoring Our Heroes... , Then, Now, and Forever