Sioux Center in Sioux County, Iowa — The American Midwest (Upper Plains)
Sioux Center, Iowa Veterans Memorial
Photographed By Ruth VanSteenwyk, June 16, 2018
1. Sioux Center, Iowa Veterans Memorial Marker
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Sioux Center, Iowa Veterans Memorial. . Lest We Forget, U.S. and Sioux Center timeline: , 1775--- , Battle of Lexington , Battle of Concord , 2nd Continental Congress formed , Battle of Bunker Hill , Olive Branch Petition issued , USS independence commissioned , Military Branches: Army-Navy- Marines established , George Washington appointed Commander of Continental Army , Patrick Henry's Speech "Give me Liberty or Give me Death" , Benjamin Franklin appointed first Postmaster General, 1776--- , British capture New York City , United States becomes nation's new name , Virginia is first state to enact its own constitution , "Common Sense" published , "Wealth of Nations" published , "The American Crisis" published , Nathan Hale executed by British , Declaration of Independence issued , Battle of Trenton, 1777--- , Battle of Saratoga , Official Flag "Stars and Stripes" Design , Continental Army winters at Valley Forge , Battle of Brandywine , Battle of Princeton , Battle of Germantown, 1781--- , Battle of Yorktown , Articles of Confederation ratified , 6th Pennsylvania Regiment mutinies, 1783--- , Treaty of Paris ends Revolutionary War , George Washington resigns commission , Pennsylvania Evening Post is 1st Daily Paper , Approximately 100,000 Tories emigrate , Last British troops leave America , Continental Army disbanded , Newburgh conspiracy, 1787--- , Delaware is first state to ratify U.S. Constitution , Northwest Ordinance passed , Shay's rebellion ends , Federalist Papers published , Constitutional Convention adopts U.S. Constitution , Bill of Rights is promised , Three-Fifths Compromise , Connecticut Compromise , James Madison introduces the Virginia Plan , 1787 Constitutional Convention held in Philadelphia, 1789--- , George Washington becomes president , New York City temporary capital , U.S. Congress meets for first time , Bill of Rights introduced to Congress , First Tariff Act passed , George Washington forms first Cabinet , First Judiciary Act passed , John Adams becomes first Vice-President , Thomas Jefferson becomes first Secretary of State , Henry Knox becomes first Secretary of War , Alexander Hamilton becomes first Secretary of the Treasury, 1791--- , Whiskey Act passed , Pierre Charles L'Enfant designs Washington DC , First Bank of the United States is established , U.S. capital named "Washington DC" , Vermont is admitted as the 14th state , Bill of Rights ratified, 1800--- , Library of Congress is founded , Revolution of 1800 , Congress meets in DC for first time , Washington DC is official capital , U.S. population exceeds five million , Quasi-War Ends , U.S. Average Life Expectancy Thirty-Five Years , House of Representatives decide presidential election (1801), 1803--- , Future state of Iowa part of Louisiana Territory , First public library opens in Connecticut , Ohio is admitted as the 17th state , Congress passes the 12th Amendment , America purchases Louisiana Territory , Supreme Court Case Marbury v. Madison, 1804--- , Thomas Jefferson is reelected president , Aaron Burr kills Alexander Hamilton in a duel , Congress impeaches federal judge John Pickering , 12th Amendment ratified , Lewis and Clark expedition begins , Lewis and Clark camp south of present day Sioux City, Iowa, 1807--- , Steamboat Clermont launched , Prohibiting Importation of Slaves Act , USS Chesapeake incident , Aaron Burr acquitted of treason , Embargo Act passed, 1808--- , Fort Madison established , James Madison elected president, 1812--- , War of 18 12 begins , U.S. invades Canada , James Madison reelected president , Gerrymandering first used , Louisiana is admitted as 18th State , USS Constitution sinks British Frigate Guerriere, 1814--- , Dolly Madison saves National Treasures , Treaty of Ghent ends War of 18 12 , Hartford Convention meets , Battle of Horseshoe Bend , Battle of Lake Champlain , "Star Spangled Banner" written , Battle of Fort McHenry , British forces burn Washington D.C, 1816--- , James Monroe elected president , Second Bank of the United States , Indiana is admitted as 19th State , Martin v. Hunter's Lessee , "Era of Good Feelings" begins, 1819--- , Alabama is admitted as 22nd State , Spain cedes Florida to U.S. , McCulloch v. Maryland, 1820--- , Missouri Compromise enacted , James Monroe reelected president , HMS Beagle launched , Maine is admitted as 23rd State , Daniel Boone dies , U.S. population approximately ten million , Missouri Compromise makes Iowa a non-slave territory, 1824--- , Bureau of Indian Affairs established , Gibbons v. Ogden , The "Corrupt Bargain" , "Favorite Sons" run for president, 1828--- , Andrew Jackson elected president , Tariff of Abominations passed , Jacksonian Democracy begins , Andrew Jackson begins "Spoils System", 1830--- , First U.S. Steam Locomotive "Tom Thumb" , Webster-Hayne Senate Debate , Indian Removal Act passed, 1835--- , America has no National Debt , First presidential assassination attempt , Liberty Bell cracks a second time , Battle of Goliad, 1836--- , Martin Van Buren elected president , Battle of San Jacinto , Battle of the Alamo, 1838--- , Trail of Tears , Iowa Territory organized, 1839--- , Iowa and Missouri "Honey War" , U.S. Congress bans dueling in DC, 1840--- , U.S. population 17 million , "Penny Blacks" first issued , William Harrison elected president, 1841--- , Preemption Act passed , VP John Tyler becomes president , President Harrison dies , William Harrison becomes president, 1844--- , James K. Polk elected president , Notre Dame University Chartered, 1845--- , Congress designates National Election Date , Andrew Jackson dies , Edgar Allen Poe publishes "The Raven" , James Polk becomes president , American annexes Texas , First Congressional veto override, 1846--- , Iowa becomes the 29th state , U.S. and Canadian border established , U.S. declares War on Mexico , First Baseball game is played , Ansel Briggs first Governor of Iowa , Neptune is discovered , Oregon Treaty signed , Construction begins on Smithsonian, 1848--- , Zachery Taylor elected president , California Gold Rush begins , Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo signed , Seneca Falls Convention, 1850--- , Compromise of 1850 , Fugitive Slave Law passed , "Scarlet Letter" published , American Express is founded , U.S. population exceeds twenty-three million , California is admitted as 31st State , Slave Trade abolished in District of Columbia, 1852--- , Franklin Pierce elected president , "Uncle Tom's Cabin" published, 1854--- , Kansas-Nebraska Act passed , Republican Party is formed , Missouri Compromise ends, 1856--- , Republican Party's first National Convention , Senator Charles Summer attacked , James Buchanan elected president, 1857--- , Dred Scott v. Sandford , Financial Panic of 1857 , Spirit Lake Massacre , Iowa capital moved to Des Moines, 1858--- , Minnesota is admitted as 32nd State , Trans-Atlantic Cable laid , Lincoln-Douglas debates, 1859--- , Harper's Ferry Raid , "On the Origin of Species" published, 1860--- , Abraham Lincoln elected president , South Carolina secedes from Union , Pony Express makes its first delivery , Sioux County, Iowa is established , Calliope first county seat of Sioux County , U.S. population exceeds 31 million, 1861--- , Confederate Congress declares war on United States , President Lincoln suspends Writ of Habeas Corpus , West Virginia secedes from Virginia , First transcontinental telegraph is transmitted , Congress authorizes "Medal of Honor" , Battle of Athens (Croton Skirmish) , Succeeding states form the Confederacy , Abraham Lincoln becomes 16th president , First Battle of Bull Run , Confederate forces fire on Fort Sumter , Confederate forces fire on "Star of the West", 1862--- , Battle of Antietam , Homestead Act passed , Congress authorizes segregated military , USS Monitor is launched and sunk , Legal Tender Act passed , Pacific Railroad Act passed , Seven Days Battle , Battle of Shiloh , Battle of Fredericksburg , Second Battle of Bull Run , Department of Agriculture established, 1863--- , Thomas J. Jackson dies , National Conscription Act passed , West Virginia is admitted as the 35th state , Thanksgiving proclaimed a National Holiday , Anti-Draft riots break out in NYC , Emancipation Proclamation issued , Battle of Chancellorsville , Battle of Vicksburg , Enrollment Act passed , Gettysburg Address , Battle of Gettysburg, 1865--- , General Lee surrenders at Appomattox Courthouse , John Wilkes Booth assassinates President Lincoln , Vice President Andrew Johnson becomes president , President Johnson restores Writ of Habeas Corpus , Steamship USS Sultana sinks in Mississippi River , Ku Klux Klan is formed , U.S. Secret Service established , Major Henry Wirz executed , 13th Amendment ratified , Reconstruction begins (1865-1877) , Freedman's Bureau established, 1868--- , Decoration Day (Memorial Day) first observed , Thomas Edison patents his first invention , Ulysses S. Grant is elected president , Senate fails to impeach President Andrew Johnson , 14th Amendment ratified, 1870--- , West Branch "Sioux Center" settled , 15th Amendment ratified , Joseph Rainey sworn into House of Reps. , Christmas proclaimed a National Holiday , Robert E. Lee dies , U.S. Department of Justice established , U.S. population approximately 40 million , Standard Oil Company incorporated, 1873--- , First Women's prison opens , Coinage Act passed , Economic Panic of 1873 , San Francisco starts cable car service, 1876--- , Telephone is invented , "Tom Sawyer" published , Battle of Little Big Horn , U.S. Centennial celebrated , Dewey Decimal System debuts , James Butler Hickok killed, 1877--- , Post Office opens in Sioux Center , Bell Telephone Company incorporated , Great Railroad Strike of 1877 , Thomas Edison invents phonograph , Newspaper Washington Post is first published , Rutherford B. Hayes becomes president , First Church established in Sioux Center , Compromise of 1877, 1881--- , James A Garfield becomes president , President Garfield is assassinated , Chester A Arthur becomes president , American Red Cross founded by Clara Barton , Booker T. Washington establishes Tuskegee Institute , Barnum and Bailey Circus debuts , O.K. Corral shoot out, 1883--- , Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show premieres , America divided into four time zones , Brooklyn Bridge opens , Spoil System ends , Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act passed, 1886--- , Statue of Liberty officially dedicated , Haymarket Riot , President Cleveland marries , Coca-Cola introduced , Apache Geronimo surrenders , American Federation of Labor founded, 1889--- , Sioux Center School District formed (1891) , First Railroad in Sioux Center , Benjamin Harrison becomes president , Thomas Edison invents Kinetoscope , Andrew Carnegie's "Gospel of Wealth" , Jane Addams opens Hull House, 1893--- , Thomas Edison opens first movie studio , Grover Cleveland becomes president , Diplomatic Appropriations Act passed , Gasoline powered Automobile introduced , American Railway Union formed , Hawaiian Queen Liliuokalani overthrown, 1896--- , William McKinley elected president , James B. Connelly wins Gold Medal , First Modern Olympic Games are held , Rural Free Delivery Act passed , Supreme Court Case Plessy v. Ferguson, 1898--- , U.S.S. Maine explodes , Spanish-American War begins , Battle of Kettle Hill , Battle of San Juan Hill, Cuba , U.S. captures the Philippines , U.S. seizes Guam , Puerto Rico surrenders to U.S , 1898 Treaty of Paris , Guam becomes a U.S. Territory, 1900--- , U.S. Average Life Expectancy Forty-Five Years , Foraker Act passed , U.S. population exceeds 75 million , Brownie Box Camera introduced , "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" published , William McKinley reelected President, 1901--- , President McKinley assassinated , Theodore Roosevelt becomes president , Platt Amendment passed , U.S. Steel formed , Hay-Pauncefote Treaty passed, 1904--- , Sioux Center Christian School formed (1905) , U.S. begins Panama Canal construction , Deficiency Act passed , Roosevelt Corollary issued , Theodore Roosevelt reelected President, 1906--- , Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" published , Theodore Roosevelt wins Nobel Peace Prize , Hepburn Act passed , Susan B. Anthony dies , "The Bitter Cry of Children" published , Meat Inspection Act passed , World's first radio broadcast transmitted , Pure Food and Drug Act passed, 1908--- , General Motors formed , First Model T automobile produced , William Howard Taft elected president, 1910--- , Boy Scouts of American founded , Camp Fire Girls founded , Halley's Comet causes mass panics , Mann-Elkins Act passed , U.S. population approximately 92 million , Mark Twain dies , Angel Island Immigration Center opens, 1911--- , Carry Nation dies , Cy Young retires from baseball , Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Scandal, 1912--- , Woodrow Wilson elected president , "Bull Moose" political party formed , Arizona is admitted as the 48th state , Titanic sinks on maiden voyage , Japan gifts 2,000 Cherry Trees to Mrs. Taft , Jim Thorpe dominates Olympic games , Theodore Roosevelt shot, 1913--- , Harriet Tubman dies , Department of Labor established , Buffalo Nickel debuts , 17th Amendment ratified , Henry Ford institutes moving assembly line , Woodrow Wilson becomes president , Federal Reserve Act passed , Underwood Tariff Act passed , 16th Amendment ratified, 1914--- , Construction on Lincoln Memorial begins , World War I begins , Federal Trade Commission created , Clayton Antitrust Act passed , Henry Ford pays his workers $5 per day , Panama Canal officially opens , US Congress establishes Mother's Day , Babe Ruth plays his first pro game , Eastman Kodak introduces color photos, 1915--- , Movie "Birth of a Nation" debuts , $355 is average annual income for farm laborers , $328 is average annual income for teachers , Germany is first nation to use Chemical weapons , Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan resigns , U.S. Coast Guard established , Lusitania is sunk , Germany begins unrestricted submarine warfare, 1916--- , Jeannette Rankin elected to Congress , Woodrow Wilson reelected president , National Defense Act establishes ROTC , Sussex is sunk by a German Submarine , Germany agrees to the Sussex Pledge , Official flag of U.S. president adopted , U.S. forces invade Dominican Republic , "Great Migration" of African Americans, 1917--- , Iowan Merle Hay first U.S. soldier killed in world war one , Espionage Act passed , Liberty Bonds and Victory Bonds sold , Pulitzer Prizes are first awarded , War Industries Board established , Army Nursing Corps established , Women officially serve the military for first time , Military Draft enacted , Zimmerman Telegram revealed , Blue Star Banner authorized , America enters World War I, 1918--- , National War Labor Board established , Pvt. James Doornink, Camp Dodge, Iowa , Sedition Act passed , Daylight Savings Time begins , Gold Star Banner authorized , Battle of the Argonne Forest , U.S. Army's 77th Divisions "Lost Battalion" , Alvin York most decorated soldier of world war one , World War I armistice signed , Woodrow Wilson introduces Fourteen Points plan, 1919--- , Sioux Center American Legion Auxiliary Unit 199 (Chartered 1920) , Sioux Center American Legion Doornink Post 199 (Chartered 1920) , U.S. Senate refuses to allow American to join League of Nations , U.S. Senate refuses to sign Treaty of Versailles , First Armistice Day celebrated , Labor Strikes and Race Riots breakout , U.S. American Legion auxiliary established , U.S. American Legion is Chartered , Red Scare begins , 18th Amendment ratified , Schenck v. United States, 1921--- , Warren G. Harding becomes president , Emergency Quota Act passed , Iowa imposes 1st state cigarette tax , First National religious radio broadcast , First National sports radio broadcast , First National Hospital Day observed , U.S. Veterans Bureau is established , Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are found guilty , Franklin Delano Roosevelt is stricken with polio , President Harding's political appointments "Ohio Gang" , Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon introduces 'Supply-Side Economics", 1923--- , Sioux Center Boy Scout Troop #1 Chartered , The "Hollywood" sign is dedicated , Insulin for diabetics becomes available , Ku Klux Klan attacks Rosewood, Florida , Calvin Coolidge becomes president , Warren G. Harding dies in office, 1924--- , National Origins Act passed , Calvin Coolidge elected president , J. Edgar Hoover appointed director of FBI , Comic strip "Little Orphan Annie" debuts , 1st Negro League World Series , Teapot Dome Scandal results in indictments issued , Iowa Representative Gilbert Haugen proposes McNary-Haugen Bill, 1927--- , Babe Ruth hits sixty home runs , Duke Ellington opens at Cotton Club in Harlem , Henry Ford's Model T ends production , Charles Lindbergh flies across Atlantic Ocean , Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti executed , Movie "Jazz Singer" debuts, 1928--- , Iowan Herbert Hoover elected President , Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin , Mickey Mouse debuts in "Steamboat Willie" , Ty Cobb retires with 4,191 hits , Kellogg-Briand Pact signed, 1929--- , Wyatt Earp dies , Babe Ruth is first to hit 500 homeruns , "All Quiet on the Western Front" is published , Albert Fall convicted of bribery , First Academy Awards Ceremony , Saint Valentines Day Massacre , Great Depression begins , Stock Market Crash, 1932--- , Franklin Delano Roosevelt elected president , "Dust Bowl" begins , Emergency Relief and Construction Act passed , "Bonus Army" marches on U.S. capital , American Farmers Revolt , Approximately 30,000 U.S. companies close , Amelia Earhart flies solo across Atlantic Ocean , U.S. Yearly Average Household Income was $1,600 , "Dust Bowl" Years (1932-1939) , Northwest Iowa Farmers protest foreclosures (1932-1933), 1933--- , Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Act passed , "Fireside Chat" by FDR , 21st Amendment ratified , 20th Amendment ratified , Tennessee Valley Authority Act passed , Frances Perkins 1st Female Cabinet Member , Agricultural Adjustment Act passed , U.S. abandons Gold Standard , FDR declares a Bank Holiday , First New Deal begins, 1935--- , 2nd New Deal begins , Social Security Insurance Act passed , Resettlement Act is passed , Sioux Center Boy Scout Troop 94 Chartered , Schechter v. United States , Huey Long is assassinated , Board Game Monopoly introduced , National Labor Relations Act passed , First U.S. Neutrality Act passed, 1936--- , Rural Electrification Act passed , Statue of Liberty's 50th Anniversary , Life magazine is first published , Jesse Owens wins four Olympic Gold Medals , First players elected to baseball Hall of Fame , Congress authorizes flag for the Vice President , United Auto Workers stage first sit-down strike , First Girt Scout unit in Sioux Center , Hoover Dam completed , FDR is re-elected president , 1937--- , FDR's Recession begins , FDR's Supreme Court packing bill is defeated , Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs premieres , Supreme Court upholds the National Labor Relations Act , Neutrality Act of 1937 passed , Hindenburg Disaster , Amelia Earhart disappears , Golden Gate Bridge opens , Joe Lewis wins Heavyweight title, 1938--- , House of Representatives forms HUAC , Kate Smith sings "God Bless American" , Teflon and Fiberglas introduced , "Superman" comic debuts , The "War of the Worlds" broadcasted , First Minimum Wage enacted , Fair Labor Standards Act passed, 1939--- , Congress passes "Cash and Carry" Law , World War II begins , SS St. Louis denied permission to dock in America , "The Grapes of Wrath" published , "The Wizard of Oz" premieres , "Gone with the Wind" premieres , "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" premieres , Hatch Act passed , Submarine SS Squalus sinks , Marian Anderson sings in front of the Lincoln Memorial, 1940--- , Sioux County voters favored Wendell-Willkie for president , Sioux County Draft Board selected 2,830 men for service , U.S. population exceeds 130 million , Iowan Henry Agard Wallace elected Vice-president , U.S. declares a Hemispheric Defense Zone , First U.S. Helicopter debuts , FDR's Destroyers for Bases Deal , FDR elected to 3rd term as president , Selective Service and Training Act passed, 1941--- , Japan Bombs Pearl Harbor , America enters World War II , Japan invades the Philippines , Battle of Wake Island , Atlantic Charter , USS Greer incident , USS Reuben James sunk , Lend-Lease Act passed , Mount Rushmore construction finished , Jeannette Rankin votes against war, 1942--- , Double V Campaign begins , Battle of Guadalcanal , Bracero Program begins , Navajo Code talkers first used , Sullivan Brothers are killed in Action , Manhattan Project begins , Des Moines first training center for WAACs , Women's Army Auxiliary Corps established , Executive Order 9066 issued , Bataan Death March , Doolittle Raid , Battles of Coral Sea and Midway, 1943--- , Battle of Tarawa , Zoot Suit Riots , Executive Order 9320 issued , 99th Pursuit Squadron 1st Combat Mission , Boy Scout Troop 211 Chartered , Lt. Albert Brunsting, English Channel , Seaman Apprentice John Dieters , TSGT. Bernard M. Vermeer, England , Sgt. Bert Kroon, Battle of Anzio, Italy , Japanese forces are defeated in Aleutians, 1944--- , Sioux County voters favored Thomas Dewey for president , Staff Sgt. Peter De Boer, Ground campaign in Germany , Sgt. Arie Moerman, Bombing run over Germany , PFC. John A. Kempers, St. Lo at La Bashare, France , Pvt. Benjamin Vermeer, Camp Hood, Texas , Servicemen's Readjustment Act (G.I. Bill) passed , Battle of Leyte Gulf , Korematsu v. United States , Battle of the Bulge , FDR elected to 4th term as president , Operation Overlord (D-Day), 1945--- , Battle of Iwo Jima , Battle of Okinawa , President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies , Enola Gay drops first atomic bomb on Hiroshima , USS Indianapolis sunk , V-E Day and V-J Day , United Nations formally established , Cold War begins (1945-1989) , 1st Lt. David E. Vermeer, Bombing run over Germany , Pvt. Gerrit Ter Haar, Battle of Okinawa , Sgt. Charles Aardema, Battle of Luzon, 1947--- , Levittown construction begins , Jackie Robinson breaks Baseball's color barrier , Baseball's World Series first televised , Loyalty Review Program begins , Chuck Yeager breaks sound barrier , Truman Doctrine issued , U.S. Air Force established, 1948--- , U.S. military desegregated , U.S. recognizes state of Israel , Berlin Blockade/Airlift begins , Harry S. Truman elected president , Peace Time draft reinstated , Marshall Plan passed , Alger Hiss indicted , McCollum v. Board of education, 1949--- , Berlin Blockade/Airlift ends , NATO established, 1950--- , McCarthyism begins , Korean War begins , McCarran Act passed , Great Brinks Robbery , Battle of Inchon , Armed Forces Day is first celebrated , U.S. population exceeds 150 million , Comic stirp "Peanuts" debuts , U.S. wins first fighter jet dogfight , Assassination attempt on President Truman , Judith Coplon convicted of spying for Soviets, 1951--- , William Randolph Hearst dies , James Jabara becomes first fighter jet ace , U.S. develops Hydrogen Bomb , UNIVAC revealed , TV show "I Love Lucy" debuts , Julius and Ethel Rosenberg convicted , 22nd Amendment ratified , President Truman fires General MacArthur, 1953--- , Sioux Center Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 6129 formed , Korean War armistice is signed , Julius and Ethel Rosenberg executed for treason , Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes president , Jacqueline Cochran breaks sound barrier , Earl Warren becomes Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, 1954--- , Gunmen open fire in House of Representatives , "Under God" added to the Pledge of Allegiance , U.S. launches first atomic sub SS Nautilus , Armistice Day becomes Veterans Day , Brown v Board of Education , U.S. Army versus McCarthyism, 1955--- , Rosa Parks arrested , Montgomery Bus Boycott begins , Sioux Center's Dordt College founded , Minimum Wage is .75 cents per hour , Disney Land opens in California , Albert Einstein dies , Gunsmoke premieres on television , Jonas Salk's polio vaccine is declared safe , "In God We Trust" placed on U.S. currency, 1956--- , President Eisenhower reelected , Federal Highway Act passed, 1957--- , U.S.S.R. launches Sputnik I , Little Rock Nine , Civil Rights Act passes , Joseph McCarthy dies , $5,234 Median Income for a family of four , First Nuclear power plant opens , Senator John F. Kennedy wins Pulitzer Prize, 1958--- , Hoola Hoop craze hits America , Defense Reorganization Act , Operation Northwest Passage , Sherman Adams resigns , NASA is created, 1959--- , Kitchen Debate , NASA selects its first astronauts , Alaska and Hawaii become states, 1960--- , John F. Kennedy elected president , First nuclear powered aircraft carrier launched , Submarine Triton circles globe under water , Civil Rights Sit-In Protests begin , First televised presidential debate , U-2 Incident, 1961--- , Mapp v Ohio , Bay of Pigs Invasion , Berlin Wall begins construction , Executive Order 10924 issued , Freedom Riders attacked , 23rd Amendment ratified , Alan B. Shepard is first American in space , Robert Kennedy becomes Attorney General, 1962--- , Engel v. Vitale , Baker v Carr , Cuban Missile Crisis, 1963--- , President John F. Kennedy assassinated , Lyndon B. Johnson becomes president , March on Washington DC , Marin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech , Gideon v. Wainwright , Lee Harvey Oswald killed , America and U.S.S.R. establish a 'Hotline" , Submarine Thresher sinks , Medgar Evers assassinated , First African-Americans graduate Air Force Academy, 1964--- , Douglas MacArthur dies , Race riots erupt in New York City , Martin Luther King wins Nobel Peace Prize , Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed , Gulf of Tonkin Resolution , 24th Amendment ratified , Escobedo v. Illinois , Lyndon B. Johnson elected president , Warren Commission report issued , Westberry v. Sanders, 1965--- , Congress establishes Medicare , Congress establishes Medicaid , Race Riots erupt in Watts , Malcolm X is assassinated , March on Selma , Voting Rights Act is passed , American Edward White walks in space , Operation Rolling Thunder , Battle of La Drang Valley, 1966--- , Robert Weaver is first African-American cabinet member , Ronald Reagan elected Governor of California , Fair Packaging and Labor Act passed , Chester W. Nimitz dies , Child Nutrition Act passes , Gemini 8 completes first space docking , Race riots erupt in Atlanta and Chicago , United Farm Workers of America is formed , Highway Safety Act is passed , Miranda v Arizona, 1968--- , Martin Luther King assassinated , Shirley Chisholm elected to U.S. Congress , Tet Offensive , Democratic National Convention Protest , Richard Millhouse Nixon elected president , Massacre at May Lai , Apollo 8 orbits the Moon , Cpl. Randall K. Schutt TET Offensive, Vietnam , Cpl. Arlin D. Franken, HAU NGHIA Province, Vietnam , Robert Kennedy is assassinated , PFC Robert A. Van Ballegooyen, Vietnam (1967), 1969--- , Alexander v. Holmes , Dwight D. Eisenhower dies , Vietnamization Plan begins , U.S. population exceeds 200 million , Neil Armstrong walks on Moon, 1970--- , U.S. invades Cambodia , Kent State tragedy , First Earth Day observed , EPA established , Clean Air Act passed , Lt. Everett Alvarez longest prisoner of war , Apollo 13 incident , Chicago Seven are found not guilty, 1971--- , Lt. William Calley is found guilty , Amtrak begins railway service , Attica prison revolt , 26th Amendment ratified , Congress extends military draft , Pentagon Papers are released, 1973--- , Vietnam cease fire signed , War Powers Act passed , Roe v Wade , Endangered Species Act passed , Senate Watergate investigation begins , OPEC Oil Embargo leads to fuel shortages , Skylab is launched into space , Vice-President Spiro Agnew resigns , "Wounded Knee" incident, 1974--- , USS Monitor wreck discovered , Duke Ellington dies , Hank Aaron hits his 715th homerun , Freedom of Information Act passed , United States v. Nixon , President Ford pardons Nixon , Gerald Ford becomes president , President Nixon resigns, 1977--- , James Carter becomes president , Federal Minimum wage is $2.30 an hour , Department of Energy established , Alaskan pipeline opens , U.S. agrees to sign over Panama Canal , Mini Series "Roots" debuts , Shuttle Enterprise makes first test flight, 1979--- , Camp David Accords signed (1978) , U.S. embassy in Tehran seized , Three Mile Island accident, 1980--- , Ronald Reagan elected president , U.S. population exceeds 226 million , Mariel Boatlift , U.S. boycotts summer Olympics , Mt. St. Helens erupts , U.S. Hockey team wins Olympic gold , Operation Eagle Claw ends in disaster , Love Canal declared Federal disaster area , Mothers Against Drunk Driving formed, 1981--- , 133rd Army Infantry National Guard Unit established in Sioux Center , Sandra Day O'Connor becomes first female Supreme Court Justice , Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome is identified , President Reagan fires air traffic controllers , President Reagan introduces Reaganomics , Space Shuttle Columbia orbits Earth , Assassination attempt on President Reagan , American Hostages in Iran are released, 1983--- , U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon bombed , Reagan proposes Strategic Defense initiative , Operation Urgent Fury launched , Martin Luther King's birthday a national holiday , U.S. Marine barracks bombed in Beirut, Lebanon , Guion Bluford is first African-American in space , U.S. spacecraft Pioneer 10 leaves Solar System , Sally Ride is first American woman in space, 1984--- , Bruce Springsteen releases "Born in the U.S.A." , Kathryn Sullivan first woman to walk in space , Federal Government bails out U.S. banks , Ronald Reagan is reelected president, 1986--- , Iran-Contra Scandal , Space shuttle Challenger explodes , Statue of Liberty celebrates its 100th birthday , National Debt exceeds $2 trillion , U.S. bombs Libya , Jonathan Pollard convicted of spying for Israel (1987), 1988--- , USS Vincennes shoots down Iranian passenger jet , George H.W. Bush elected president, 1989--- , Exxon Valdez disaster , Berlin Wal is torn down , Cold War ends , Operation Just Cause , DC-10 crashes in Sioux City, Iowa , House Speaker Jim Wright resigns , 47 USS Iowa Seamen are killed, 1991--- , Minimum Wage is $4.25 per hour , U.S. population exceeds 250 million , Operation Desert Storm begins, 1993--- , Black Hawk down incident in Somalia , William J. Clinton becomes president , World Trade Center bombed , Whitewater Investigation begins , Military policy of "Don't ask, don't tell" begins , Holocaust Museum in Washington DC opens, 1994--- , Aldrich Adams convicted of spying for Russia , Contract with America introduced , NAFTA enacted , U.S. intervenes in Bosnia (1995), 2000--- , Supreme Court Case Bush v. Gore , George W. Bush elected president , Sioux Center 67% of population is of Dutch heritage , USS Cole Bombing , International Space Station begins operations , Sioux Center's population exceeds 6,000 residents, 2001--- , War on Terrorism begins , Operation Enduring Freedom begins , Nearly 3,000 Americans are killed on 9/11 , 9/11 Terrorist attacks on America, 2003--- , U.S. invades Iraq , Space shuttle Columbia breaks up , Department of Homeland Security officially begins operations , Human genome Project completed , Army Staff Sergeant Eric Maddox is credited with the capture of Saddam Hussein, 2006--- , Construction on the Freedom Tower in New York City begins , U.S. Army decommissions last M.A.S.H. unit , Western Union discontinues use of its telegram service , NASA launches New Horizons probe , Lance Cpl. William J. Leusink, Anbar Province, Iraq, 2008--- , Barak Obama elected president , Emergency Economic Stabilization Act passed, 2013--- , NSA Documents leaked to the public , Sioux Center's Veterans Memorial is dedicated on 11-11-2013 , Barak Obama begins second term as president , Sioux Center's population exceeds 7,200 residents , U.S. Navy Seal Team VI kills Terrorist Osama Bin Laden, Wall 1, side 1: , American Revolution 1775 - 1783 , Served - 217,000 . Killed in Action - 4,435 . Wounded in Action - 6,188 , VA estimate, War of 18 12 1812 - 1815 , Served - 286,730 . Killed in Action - 2,260 . Wounded in Action 4,505, Indian Wars 1817 - 1898 , Served - 106,000 . Killed in Action - 1,000 , VA estimate, Mexican War 1846 - 1848 , Served - 78,718 . Killed in Action - 13,283 . Wounded in Action - 4,152, Spanish-American War 1898 - 1902 , Served - 306,760 . Killed in Action - 385 . Wounded in Action - 1,662, World War I , Klaas Aardema USA, Nicholas Aardema USA, Nonnie Aardema USA, Lutje Achterhof USA, Peter Arendsen USA, Raymond P. Balkema USN, John Bierma USA, Gerrit H. Blekkink USA, Gerrit Boerma USA, Edward Bolluyt USA, Joe N. Bomgaars USA, Ben Borgman USA, Seine Brandts USA, William Brandts USA, Henry Brinkman USA, James Brommer USA, Nick Buyert USA, Gerrit Bernard Debey USA, William DeBruyn USA, George W. Dekraay USA, Henry Dekraay USA, William E. DeMots USA, Gerrit J. DenHerder USA, Teunis "Tony" DenHerder USA, Dr. Seine Bolks Depree USA, George DeRuyter USN, John DeRyke USA, Edward DeVos USA, Adrian Dewitt USA, Arie Dibbet USA, Floyd Dickman USN, Fred Dickman USA, Fred C. Dierks USA, James Doornink USA, Martin Dykshoorn USA, Albert Dykstra USA, Gradus Feekes USA, Opke Feekes USA, William Goemans USA, Jacob Harmsen USA, David Heusinkveld USA, Mark Meusinkveld USA, Ray Hogan USA, Syne Hogan USA, William A. Hubers USA, William Huitink USA, Gerrit W. Hulstein USA, Jerry J. Jansen USA, Andrew Jansma USA, John J. Janson USA, John J. Johnson USA, Conrad Jongewaard USN, Gerrit Juffer USA, Lee H. Kiel USA, Ben Kooi USA, Fred Kooi USA, Clarence "Case" Kooistra USA, Dick Kruizenga Jr. USA, Charles J. Kuyper USA, William D. Lammers USA, John Landegent USA, Adrianus "Ed" Langstraat USA, Lyle E. Mantor USA, Dr. William Maris USA, Thomas F. McDonald, William L. Mieras USA, Albert A. Mouw USA, Peter B. Mouw USA, Allan Muilenburg USA, Dave Muilenburg USA, Harry Muilenburg USA, Hubert Muilenburg USA, Ernest Mulder USA, James Mulder USA, Andrew Nettinga USA, Hendrikus "Henry" Nicolay USA, Anna Ossenwarde USA, William K. Pasma USA, Evert J. Plantage USA, John Pluim USA, Benjamin Poll USA, J. Reynold Postma USN, Cornelius A. Punt USA, Cornelius "Neal" C. Punt USA, Cornelius "Neal" M. Punt USA, Sanderis "Sam" A. Punt USA, William Punt, George Riemersma USA, James J. Riemersma USA, Herman Rowenhorst USA, Neal J. Rozeboom USA, John Scheffer USA, Andrew Schoep USA, William Schuiteman USA, Steve Slappendal USA, John H. Slickers USA, Volkert Spijker USN, William Termeer USA, Albert Terpstra USA, Edward Teveltrup USA, Gerrit Tilstra USA, Ralph Top USA, Stephen Top USA, Alvin S. Tostlebe USN, Jacob Vanek USA, Andrew VanBeek USA, Bert H. VandeBrake USA, Pearson G. VandeBrake USA, Gerrit VanderLugt USA, Dick VanderMeer USA, William VanderMey USA, Herman VanderMuelen USA, Cornelius VanderStelt USA, James VanderStoep, RIchard H. VanderStoep USA, Rients "Ray" VanderWeide USA, Arnold VanderWilt USA, Hessel VanderZee USA, Peter VanDyke USA, John VanGorkum USA, Bernard VanHeukelom USA, Martin VanNoort USA, John C. VanOosbree USA, Chester Otis VanPeursen USN, Joe VanRavenswaay USA, William VanRoekel USA, John VanSteenbergen USA, Bernard VanSteenwyk, Jacob W. VanSteenwyk USA, Teunis VanVeldhuizen USA, Paul Veenkamp USA, Gerrit G. Vermeer USA, Gerrit W. Visser USA, Gysbert Visser USA, Rykman "Richard" Wichers USA, George H. Winter USA, Arnold Winterfeld USA, Herman Winterfeld USA, Louis H. Winterfeld USA, Henry J. Wissink USA, Herman J. Wissink USA, Wall 1, side 2: , Civil War 1861 - 1865, General Ulysses S. Grant , United States President Abraham Lincoln , Confederate States President Jefferson Davis , General Robert E. Lee, Union Army , Served - 2,213,363 . Killed in Action - 364,511 . Wounded in Action - 281,881, Confederate Army , Served - 1,064,000 . Killed in Action - 164,821 . Wounded - 137,000 , Based on incomplete records, World War II , Charles Aardema USA, Clarence Aardema USN, Eugene J. Achterhof USN, Floyd E. Achterhof USCG, Henry W. Addink USA, Henry William Addink USN, Elmer J. Altena USA, James Altena, Julius Altena USA, Arnold "Buster" Arendsen USN, George F. Armington USA, Arthur Attema USA, Jake Attema USA, Tunis "Tony" Attema USA, Henry Baker USN, Marion J. Baker USA, Clayton N. Balkema USA, Eugene S. Bartels AAF, James A. Bartels USA, Paul D. Bauer USN, William R. Beernink USMC, Alfred Beukelman USN, Bert Beuzekom USA, Carl Bierma USA, Syne Bierma USA, William B. Bierma USA, Henry M. Blankespoor USA, Lawrence Bleeker USA, William "Billy" Bleeker USN, Albert "Bud" E. Bodnar USA, Jacob Boeyink USN, Paul W. Boeyink AAC, Nickolas J. Bomgaars USA, Richard Bonnema USA, William D. Boone USA, Alfred J. Borgman USA, Lawrence Bos USA, Richard Bos Jr. AAC, Gerald G. Bosch USA, Fred W. Braakman USA, John Brantsen USN, Gerald H. Breneman AAC, Arthur Brenneman USA, Daryle A. Brink AAC, Donald E. Brink AAC, Albert Broek USA, Barney Broek USA, David B. Broek USA, John Broek AAC, Donald Brommer USA, Lester Brommer AAF, Lloyd A. Brown USA, Aldred Bruins USA, Robert Bruins USA, Albertus "Bert" Bruinsma USA, Reynold Bruinsma USA, Albert Brunsting AAC, Arlene De Mots Brunsting USN WAVE, Bernard Robert Brunsting AAC, Hans Burgers USA, Percy Bylsma USA, Gerald F. Calsbeek USA, Stanley Campagne USA, Earl W. Clary USA, Herman S. Clemens USN, Donald Paul Colon USN, Henry Coulander USA, Raymond F. Debey USA, George DeBoer USN, John DeBoer USA, Oscar DeBoer USA, Peter DeBoer USA, Bernard DeBondt USA, Gerrit DeBondt USA, John DeGoei USA, Donald R. DeGooyer USA, Marvin DeGooyer USA, Abraham DeGroot USA, Cornelius DeGroot USA, Henry A. DeGroot USA, Henry J. DeGroot USA, Henry Neal DeGroot USA, John H. DeGroot Jr. USA, John R. DeGroot USA, John W. DeGroot USA, Reuben DeGroot USA, Gary Deinken USA, Angeline Deiters USN WAVE, Harold Deiters USN, Herman Deiters Jr. USN, John Deiters USNR, Art DeKoter USA, Robert D. DeKraay USN, Thomas DeLange USA, Ringert G. DeMots USN, Pershing J. DenHartog AAC, Alvin DenHerder USA, Gerald E. DenHerder USN, Jake DenOuden USA, Seine Byron DePree USN, David DeRuyter USN, George M. DeRuyter USMC, Jacob J. DeRyke USA, Cornelius DeStigter USA, Melvin DeStigter USA, Peter DeStigter USA, John DeVries USA, John H. DeVries AAF, Lorance E. DeVries USA, Dick DeWeerd USA, Gerald DeWeerd USA, Lawrence DeWild AAC, James A. DeWit USA, John A. DeZeeuw Jr. USA, John Dibbet USA, Wilbur Dokkumburg USN, Clarence J. Dorhout AAC, Nicholas Draayer USA, John Droog USA, Dick J. Duits USN, Peter Duits USN, Egbert "Bert" J. Dykhuizen USA, Neal Dykhuizen USA, Henry Dykstra USA, Cornelius Elshuis USA, Henrietta Eppink USA, Herman J. Eppink USA, Arnt Espeset USN, Norman J. Evenhuis USA, Arnold J. Feekes USA, Ted W. Feekes USA, Theo "Ted" H. Feekes USA, Edward H. Foreman USN, J. Lester Foreman AAC, Dries Franken USA, Everett G. Franken AAC, Everett J. Franken USA, Gerrit H. Franken Jr. USA, Henry A. Franken USA, Henry E. Franken USA, Howard Franken USA, Joe Franken USN, Louis G. Franken USA, Ernest J. Gerritsma USA, William D. Godsey USA, John Gosling USA, Theodore T. Goslinga USA, Peter Groen USA, James Robert Groff USA, Marvin J. Grotenhuis USA, Wall 2, side 1: , World War I 1917 - 1918 , Served - 4,734,991 . Killed in Action - 53,402 . Wounded in Action - 204,002 , Sioux Center - KIA , James Doornink · Gerrit Tilstra, World War II , Peter Haak USA, Cornelius R. Haverhals USA, Fred Herweyer USN, William Herweyer USA, Elmer J. Heusinkveld USA, Edward A. Hoeven, Evert A. Hoeven USN, Bernard Hogan USA, James John Hollander USN, Samuel Holtrop USA, Alfred J. Hoogland USA, John "Johnny" Hoogland USA, Henry Hooyer USN, Henry Hubers USA, Wilbur Huisman USA, Gerrit R. Hulstein USA, Raymond Hulstein USA, Charles R. Irwin USA, Edward H. Jansen USA, Marion Jasper USA, Albert J. Jongewaard USN, Richard C. Jongewaard USN, Ringert "Gene" Eugene Jongewaard USA, Harry "Pete" Juffer USN, James "Hans" L. Juffer USN, Arnold Kaemingk USA, Arthur Kamerman USN, Russell Kamerman USA, Gilbert Keizer USA, Roy J. Kelley USMC, John A. Kempers USA, Marion Kempers USA, Gerrit Kersbergen USA, Howard Kiel USA, Wilbert Kleene USA, Clarence Klein USA, Herman G.J. Klein USA, James Klein AAF, John J. Klein USA, Sam A. Klein USA, Harold D. Kleinwolterink USA, Gary Koerselman AAC, Orville K. Koerselman USN, Lewis B. Kooi USA, Raymond Kooi USN, James Koops USA, Bernard W. Koops USA, Gerrit William Kosters USN, Lloyd E. Kots USA, Albert Kramer USA, Steve Kramer USN, Charles "Max" M. Kreutz AAC, Bernard C. Kroon USN, Bert Kroon USA, Henry "Tubby" John Kroon USN, Richard J. Kroon AAC, William "Billy" J. Kroon USN, Gertrude Kroon-Plattner USN WAVE, Dick J. Kruizenga USA, Harry Kuhl USA, Gysbert E. Kuyper USA, Harold Lenters USA, John Lihudis USA, Abe Louwerse AAC, Howard Lubach USA, Elmer H. Lutjens USA, Robert Malisch USA, Henry Marema USA, Dr. Arthur L. McGilvra USA, Albert H. Meendering USA, Richard Meyer USA, Willis "Bill" Meylink USA, Helen Mieras USN, Lawrence H. Miller USA, Walter Mitchell AAC, Jacob "Jack" Moeller USA, Joyce Boeyink Moeller USN WAVE, Kenneth Arthur Moeller USN, Adrian Moerman USA, Arie "Harry" Moerman USA, Cornelius Moerman USA, Peter Moerman Jr. USA, William "Bill" Moerman USA, Clarence T. Mol USA, Cornelius C. Mol USN, Neal J. Mol AAC, Henry J. Moret USN, Lloyd Morrow, Albert Moss USA, Edward A. Moss USA, Bernard N. Mouw AAC, Clarence J. Mouw, Donald Mouw USMC, Harold B. Mouw USN, Irvin Mouw USA, Lawrence Mouw USA, Marvin Mouw USN, Melvin J. Mouw USA, Steven Mouw USA, Vernon P. Mouw USN, William L. Mouw USA, Everett Muilenburg USA, Wallace Muilenburg USA, Bernard A. Mulder USN, Dick B. Mulder USA, Elmer D. Mulder USA, Gary Mulder USA, James A. Mulder USN, James E. Mulder USA, John H. Mulder USA, Gerald Nettinga USA, Eugene F. Newel USA, Lubbert Niessink USA, Bernard Niezink USA, Elvin Norman USN, Dr. Carl D. Oelrich USA, John "Jack" M. Oliver USN, Arie J. Olivier USA, Arie P. Olivier USA, Asa Olivier USA, George M. Olson USA, Alfred Pals USA, Dale Pas USN, Dean Peterson USA, William Peuse USA, William E. Plantage USA, Lester R. Ploeger USN, Gerrit Postma USA, Martin Punt USN, Marvin Punt USA, G. Dennis Raak USMC, Gerald Ramaker USA, Bert Regnerus AAC, Gerald R. Reinders USA, Robert Rens USA, William Rens USA, Douglas Ribbens USA, Theodore "Ted" Ribbens USN, William Frank Richmond USA, Wilbur Riemersma USA, Bernard Riepma USA, Henry W. Rikkers USN, Jack Rodibaugh USA, Gerrit "Hein" H. Roelofs USA, Henry J. Roelofs USN, Stanley Roelofs AAC, Edwin Roetman USA, Edward J. Roghair USA, John Roos USA, Gerrit Roskam USA, Wall 2, side 2: , World War II 1941 - 1945 , Served - 16,112,566 . Killed in Action - 291,557 . Wounded in Action - 670,846 , Sioux Center - POW , Donald Brommer · Lester W. VanGorkum · Gilbert Wallenburg, World War II , Dick J. Rozebooom USA, Garret H. Rozeboom, Garrett G. Rozeboom USA, James Rozeboom USA, William R. Rozeboom USA, Howard Ruisch USA, Theodore "Ted" Ruisch USA, Leona Boeyink Russell USN WAVE, Bernard H. Sandbulte AAF, John H. Sandbulte USA, Andrew Santema USN, Bernard J. Santema USN, James Santema USA, John C. Schaap USN, Cornelius R. Schelling USA, Ralph Schelling AAF, Abe Schiebout USA, Benjamin Schiebout USN, Chris Schiebout USA, Ferdinand Schiebout AAC, Joe Schiebout AAC, Adrian H. Scholten USA, Henry J. Schouten USA, Peter C. Schouten USA, Arthur J. Schuiteman USA, Arthur W. Schuiteman USA, Gerald R. Schut USMC, John F. Schut USA, Marvin G. Schutt USN, Alton Shafer USN, Steve C. Siebersma USA, Myron W. Siemen USA, Clarence Sjaarda USA, Donald Sjaarda USA, Gerald John Sjaarda USA, Elmer L. Slob USA, Alfred W. Smith USN, William Martin Sneller USA, Bernard Spenkelink USA, John H. Stock AAC, Albert J. Tamminga AAC, James Tamminga USA, William Tamminga USA, William H. Taylor USA, Marvin Tegrotenhuis USA, Milo V. Tegrotenhius USN, Adelphos "Del" H. Tepaske USA, Garrit TerHaar USA, Cecil J. Thomas USA, John E. Vanaller USMC, C. A. VanAndel USA, Lawrence VanAndel USMC, Henry A. VanBeek AAC, Severt VanBerkel USA, Cornelius VanBochove USA, Maurice J. VandeBerg USA, Theodore Martin VandeBerg USN, James "Bud" C. VandeBerg USA, Clarence L. VandeBrake USA, John A. VandeBrake USA, Marion VandeBrake USA, Dr. Gerald C. VandeGarde USA, Peter VandeGriend AAF, John E. VandeKerk USA, John VandeKieft USA, Alvin G. VandeBerg USN, Clarence VandenBerg USA, Gerrit "Gary" Vandenberg USA, James "Jerry" G. VandenBerg USA, Richard VandenBerg USA, Theodore W. VandenBerg USA, Richard VandenBrink AAF, David L. VanderBerg, Elmer H. VanderBerg USN, Gerrit W. VanderBerg, James L. VanderBerg USA, Cornelius VanderBrink USA, Raymond VanderBroek USAF, Robert VanderBroek USN, Jake B. VanderGriend USA, Dick VanderHoef USA, Henry VanderKerk USN, Edward VanderPloeg USN, Elmer C. VanderPloeg USA, Harold VanderPloeg AAC, J. Freeman VanderPloeg USA, Marion VanderPol USA, Sam VanderSchaaf USA, Gerrit VanderStelt USA, Andrew D. VanderStoep USA, Andrew VanderVliet USA, Everett Vanderweerd USA, Lawrence VanderWeerd USN, Edward VanderWeide AAC, Henry VanderWeide USA, John P. VanderWeide USA, George VanEngen USA, Gerrit VanEngen USA, Lester W. VanGorkum AAC, Earl VanGorp USA, Ricard VanHill AAF, Gerrit J. VanHolland AAC, Harry VanHunnick USN, Albert VanKley USA, Bert VanMaanen USN, Dick VanMaanen Jr. USA, Gerrit B. VanMaanen USA, Irwin VanMarel USA, Cornelius VanMiddendorp USA, Lester VanMuyden USA, Marvin VanMuyden USA, Milton VanMuyden USA, Peter VanMuyden USA, Chris L. VanOosbree USN, Cornelius VanOosbree USA, John C. VanOosbree Jr. USA, Anton "Tony" VanOosbree USN, Adrian VanRavenswaay USN, Gerald VanRavenswaay USA, Gerald VanRavenswaay USN, Dick VanRegenmorter USA, Abraham VanRoekel USA, Gordon VanRoekel USA, Kenneth W. VanRoekel USA, Merle VanRoekel USA, Warren VanRoekel USA, Cornelius VanSchouwen USA, Henry VanSloten USA, Wall 3, side 1: , World War II 1941 - 1945 , Sioux Center - KIA , Charles Aardema · Albert Brunsting · Peter DeBoer · John Deiters · Jake DenOuden · John A. Kempers · Bert Kroon · Arie "Harry" Moerman · John F. Schut , Garrit TerHaar · John A. VandeBrake · Benjamin Vermeer · Bernard M. Vermeer · David E. Vermeer · Gerrit J. Vis · Wallace C. Winans · Bernard Ykema, World War II , Cedric F. VanSteenwyk USN, William "Arny" A. VanSteenwyk Jr. AAC, Nick R. Vantil USA, Harry VanVoorst USA, John H. VanVoorst USA, Maurice VanVoorst USN, Richard H. VanVoorst USMC, Ted VanVoorst USA, Arthur VanWyhe USA, Joseph VanZweden USN, Conrad J. Veenkamp AAC, George Howard Veldboom RCAF, Lawrence Vellinga USA, Rodney Vellinga USA, William P. Verduin AAC, Andrew K. Vermeer USA, Arnold J. Vermeer USA, Benjamin Vermeer USA, Bernard E. Vermeer AAC, Bernard M. Vermeer AAC, David E. Vermeer AAC, E. Wayne Vermeer USA, Gerald James Vermeer USA, Harold B. Vermeer USN, James Vermeer USN, Loyd W. Vermeer USN, Ross K. Vernon USA, Arie M. Verrips USN, Gary H. Verrips AAC, Carl Versteeg USA, Cedric Versteeg USA, Gerrit J. Vis USA, Gerrit W. Visser USA, Gilbert W. Visser USA, John A. Visser USA, John J. Visser USA, Leonard Visser USA, Peter Visser USA, James Henry Vlieger USN, William Vlieger AAC, Henry Vogel, Leroy Vogel AAF, William Vogel USA, Ben Vonk Jr. USA, Henry Vonk USA, John W. Vonk USN, Arend Voorderman USA, John Voortman USA, Richard Voortman USA, Gerrit "Gary" W. Vreeman USA, Gilbert Wallenburg USA, Merrill H. Wallinga DVM USA, Harold D. Wandscheer USN, John Wandscheer AAC, Floyd Wanningen USN, Charles Warren USA, Arend T. Wassink USA, Jesse Knight Wells USN, Arthur H. Wesselink USN, Edward Wesselink USA, Gerrit Willem Wesselink AAC, John A. Wesselink USN, William Westhuis USA, Henry Westra USA, Louis H. Wielenga USA, Thomas Wierda USN, Clarence J. Wiersma USA, William T. Willemstyn USA, Wallace C. Winans USA, Alfred Wissink USA, Dick Wissink USN, Harvey Wissink USA, Lawrence Wissink AAF, Louis S. Wynia USA, Martin Wynia USA, Joe Wynja USN, Lloyd Yates USN, Wesley Yates USN, August Ykema AAC, Bernard Ykema USA, George Feekes USA, Lawrence Ykema USA, Tony Ykema AAC, Marion Zevenbergen USA, Gerrit Zomermaand USA, John Zomermaand USA, Eugene Helwig USN, Roy Kelley USMC, Peacetime , Raymond Moeller USA, Wall 3, side 2: , Korean War 1950 - 1953 , Served - 1,789,000 . Killed in Action - 36,574 . Wounded in Action - 103,284, Korean War , Truman D. Bartels USN, Donald Bernink USA, Eugene J. Beernink USA, Richard Berkenpas Jr. USA, Harold J. Boer USA, Norman G. Bonnema USN, Elmer P. Bonnema USA, Marvin A. Boone USN, Vernon E. Boone USA, Henry J. Brinks USA, Donald W. Broek USA, Byron R. Bruinsma USA, Earle Wayne Bruinsma USMC, Alvin L. Brunsting USA, John Buyert USA, Matthew Buyert USA, Christopher C. Claye USAF, Nelson Cleveringa USA, Tunis W. Cleveringa USA, William DeBondt USA, Conard DeBoom USA, Richard L. DeBoom USA, Harold J. DeGroot USA, James L. DenHerder USA, Daniel DeRuyter USN, Irwin D. DeVos USA, Kenneth W. DeVos USA, Alfred DeVries USA, Jacob Dibbet Jr. USA, Walter Disch USAF, Edwin D. Dokter USA, Gerrit "Gary" Dokter USA, Henry J. Dokter USA, Gerald N. Dolieslager USA, Junior Fred Dooyema USA, Harvard Dorhout USN, John G. Draayer USA, Joe Dragstra USA, Chester W. Faber USAF, Arnold J. Franken USA, Irwin E. Franken USA, Owen J. Gesink USAF, Clarence Goemaat USA, Herman A. Gradert USA, Lawrence Groen USA, Henry Haak USA, Bruce C. Hagen Sr. USA, Howard J. Hall USAF, Morris Harrison USMC, Donald L. Harskamp USA, John L. Harskamp USA, Robert Hellenga, Bert Holtrop USA, Alfred Hoogland, Dick Hoogland USA, Tony Hooyer USA, Elmer L. Hopper USA, Kenneth Hulstein USMC, Rodney Hulstein USA, Wayne E. Juffer USMC, Harold Kaemick USA, Thomas Kiernan MD ANG, Donald G. Koel USA, Duane Koele USA, James J. Koldenhoven USA, Lane V. Kooi USA, William D. Kooi USA, Arend Kraayenbrink USA, Harry Kraayenbrink USA, Stanton E. Kroon USA, Gerald H. Kruger USA, Gerrit J. Kruid USA, Harold Kuiken USA, Arnold L. Kwikkel USN, Kenneth R. Kwikkel USN, Gary "Garret" J. Lihudis USAF, Roger Lubbers USN, Jacob C. Mantel USA, George Meendering USA, John Meendering Jr. USA, Aaldert "Al" Mennega USA, Rudolph Meyer USA, Charles Miedema USA, Harold Moeller USA, Lowell G. Moeller USA, Verlyn Dean Moeller USA, Paul L. Moerman USA, John M. Mol USMC, Peter Mol USA, Eugene M. Moss USA, James Moss USA, Arvin Wayne Mouw, Orvin Mouw USAF, Ronald J. Mouw USA, Kenneth Muilenburg USN, Theron Mulder USA, Bernard E. Nibbelink USA, Roger Oliver USA, John Plantage USA, William John Plantage USA, Earl C. Potter USMC, Ralph Punt USA, Wilmer G. Rensink USA, William Roghair USA, Herbert Roos USA, William M. Rosenboom USA, Leonard Roskam USA, Marion W. Rozeboom USA, Howard H. Sandbulte USA, Milton W. Sandbulte USA, Conn "Cornie" Schiebout USN, Marvin J. Schoep USA, Peter G. Schouten USA, Robert J. Schouten USA, Arvin J. Schuiteman USA, Herlan Schut USA, Raymond Sneller USMC, Burton H. Snieder USA, Harvey C. Steinborn ARNG, Stanley Sybesma USA, George E. Tamminga USN, Lester G. Tegrotenhuis USA, Gerald S. TerHaar USA, Bernard James VandeBerg USA, Lowell D. VandeBerg USA, Charles A. VandeKamp USMC, Severt C. VanderEsch USA, Basil H. VanderHelm USA, Clarence VanderStoep USA, Dick J. VanderStoep USA, William L. VanderWerf USAF, Stanley W. VanDokkumburg USA, Richard VanDonge USA, Louis Y. VanDyke USA, Delbert M. VanMaanen USA, Donald VanRavenswaay USN, John VanRavenswaay USN, Ralph VanRavenswaay USN, Richard VanRavenswaay USN, Richard VanRegenmorter USA, Lloyd J. VanRoekel USA, Norman G. VanSteenwyk USA, Cornellius W. VanVelzen USA, John VanVoorst USA, Wall 4, side 1: , Vietnam War 1964 - 1975 , Served - 3,403,000 . Killed in Action - 58,272 . Wounded in Action - 303,644, Korean War , Duane VanWyhe USA, Elmer VanWyk USA, Willard J, Veenkamp USA, Harvey L. Velgersdyk USA, Donald Vermeer USAF, Richard A. Vermeer USA, Verlyn D. Vermeer USA, Wilbur H. Vermeer USMC, Gerrit Vonk USA, Peter Vonk USA, Donald W. Voortman USA, Gerald J. Vreeman USA, Bernard Wierda USA, Stanley M. Wiersma USA, Carroll E. Winterfeld USA, Merlyn A. Winterfeld USA, John Wynia USA, Melvin J. Wynia USA, Norman Ykema USA, Herbert G. Zeutenhorst USA, Arthur F. Zevenbergen USA, William J. Kleene USA, Peter A. Bartels USA, Peacetime , Wilmer Altena ARNG, Thurlow Beimers USA, Dick G. Bleyenberg USN, Rodney B. Bolkema USA, Edwin L. Boote USA, Abe Bos USA, Herman Brenneman USA, Delbert Broek ANG, David L. Bruinsma USA, Randolph D. Bruinsma USA, Robert J. Bruinsma USA, Sam L. Bruinsma USMC, Stanley G. Bruinsma USA, Arthur Buyert USA, John W. Cleveringa USA, Everett DeBondt USA, Donald D. DeGooyer USA, Rodney DeKruyf USA, Garold DenHerder ARNG, Roger A. DenHerder USA, Cornie "Jack" DeVos USA, Avan Eugene DeVries USA, Bernard A. DeWit USA, Harlan E. Doorenbos USN, Nelton "Bud" J. Doornink USA, Arnold Dorhout USMC, Lee Erickson USN, Norman J. Gaines USA, Melvin H. Gesink USN, Gerrit S. Hulstein USA, Wilbur H. Hulstein USA, Wilmer Hulstein ANG, Arnold Koekkoek USA, Elmer J. Kooi ARNG, Peter B. Kooi USA, Dick Kraayenbrink USA, Stanley Kroese USA, Herb Kuyper ARNG, Kenneth F. Lubbers USA, Daryl Moeller USA, Neal Moss ANG, John Mulder Jr. USAF, Leonard Nyhof USA, Frank Pollema USN, Marvin W. Prins ANG, Darrel H. Ramhorst USAF, Darrell Rensink ARNG, Bill Riphagen USA, Gary Riphagen ANG, Darrell Roetman USA, Arend J. Sandbulte USA, Dennis Schenk USMC, Peter L. Schouten USN, Vel Shicks USA, Delbert Swets USA, Cleo Teslaa ARNG, Gary Testroete ANG, Egbert VanBeek USA, Erwin VanBeek ARNG, Lowell VandeBerg USA, Jerace VandeGriend USA, Mike VandenBosch USAR, David J. VanderBerg USA, Donald G. VanderSchaaf USA, Harold VanderWeide USA, Kenneth VanderWeide USA, Wall 4, side 2: , Vietnam War , Sioux Center - KIA , Arlin D. Franken · Randall K. Schutt · Robert A. VanBallegooyen, Peacetime , Arnold R. VandeVegte USA, Herman J. VanDonge USMC, Donald VanEgdom USA, Gerrit VanEngelenhoven USA, Perry VanGorp USA, John B. VanMiddendorp ANG, Glen VanMuyden USA, Arlin D. VanRoekel USA, John H. VanWyk USA, Arnold G. VerHoef USA, Robert J. Vermeer USA, Bernard D. Versteeg USA, Ronald D. Voorderman USA, John C. Vreugdenhil ANG, John G. Westra USA, Gerald E. Wiekamp ARNG, Don E. Winterfeld USA, Marvin Gerald Wissink USA, Syne Wynia USA, Delmar L. Smit USA, Robert L. Harskamp USN, Alvin D. Harmelink USA, Leroy A. Kleene USA, Louis R. Tamminga USA, Jason D. VanderHeiden USAF, Peter Vermulm ARNG, Vietnam War , Michael R. Achterhof USA, Don Altena USA, Eugene "Oots" Altena USA, Gilbert Anker USA, Larry D. Armstrong USAF, Arthur L. Attema USN, Roger B. Bahrenfuss USAF, Carl Baker USAF, Herlon J. Baker USN, Larry D. Baker USAF, Dennis Bandstra USAR, David A. Bauder USN, William J. Beimers Jr. USA, Eldon Berkenpas USA, Lloyd W. Bierma USA, Gerrit Bleeker USA, William Bleeker USN, Dick Bleyenberg Jr. USA, Allen L. Bloemendaal USN, Dale A. Boerma USA, James Boeyink USN, Merle Bonnema USN, Norman Bonnema USN, Adrie "Dutch" Born USN, Fred Brandes Jr. ANG, Howard Brandes USA, David L. Breckenfelder USN, Robert A. Broek USA, James Brommer USA, Leslie J. Brommer USN, Francis O. Brooke USA, Edwin D. Brummel USN, Charles E. Brunsting USN, Arlin J. Buyert USN, John J. Buyert USA, Dennis Calkhoven ARNG, John P. Calsbeek ARNG, Richard "Rick" Cameron USAF, Brian Carr USA, Harlan K. Cleveringa USA, Andy Dalle USA, James R. Dean USN, Gerald D. DeBey USA, Irwin E. DeBoer USN, Kenneth W. DeBoer USA, Owen J. DeBoer USA, Richard L. DeBoer USN, Teunis "Tom" A. DeBondt USMC, Norman J. DeBoom USAF, Stanley DeBoom ANG, John P. DeGroot USAF, Larry DeGroot USA, Theodore M. DeHoogh USN, Alfred B. DeJong ANG, Gerald DeJong, Peter H. Dekkers ARNG, Dennis D. DeKruyf USA, Eugene M. DenHerder USA, Ronald DenHerder ANG, W. Dale DenHerder USA, Carroll E. DeNooy USAF, Mark DeRuyter USAF, Glenn H. DeStigter USA, Harlan W. DeStigter USA, Roger E. DeStigter USA, Ronald DeStigter USA, Thane DeStigter USN, Vincent DeStigter USN, Harold DeVos USA, Gordon DeWeerd USA, Garry DeYoung Jr. USA, Ron C. Dieck USAF, Donald E. Dixon USAF, Corwin P. Dolieslager USA, Donald Dorhout USA, Kenneth Dorhout USN, Lester J. Dorhout USN, Marlin Dorhout USA, Warren Dorhout USN, Wendell Dorhout USA, Ned Douma USAF, Gary Draayer ARNG, Gerald L. Droog USA, Owen Dykshorn USA, Wayne Dykshorn USN, Arlan Dykstra USAF, David Eekhoff USA, Kenneth L. Ehrp USA, Cornelius Eshuis USN, Roger Evans USA, Howard D. Faber USAF, Bernard Fedders USA, Gary L. Fedders USAF, Robert Fedders USAF, Stanley Feekes ARNG, Wall 5, side 1: , Bay of Pigs - Cuba 1961 , US Backed Brigade of 2,506 Soldiers. , Casualties - 118 (5 American) . POW - 1,100+, Operation Urgent Fury Grenada 1983 , Served - 7,900+ . Killed in Action - 19 . Wounded in Action - 116, Operation Just Cause Panama 1989 - 1990 , Served - 2,000 . Killed in Action - 23, Vietnam War , Judy Schiebout Fisher, Jerald Fluit USA, Arlin D. Franken USA, Daniel J. Franken USN, Dick Frank Jr. USA, John Franken ANG, Sylvan E. Gerritsma USA, Benjamin H. Gesink USA, David Gesink USA, Ron Groeneweg ARNG, Bruce T. Groff DVM USA, Roger Haug USMC, Harvard Haverhals USN, Michael G. Haverhals ARNG, Johan H. Hegeman USA, Alan Heidecker USA, Bob Helwig USN, Michael H. Hilleman USA, Daryl L. Holtrop USAF, Bruce Hooyer USA, Roger J. Hotalen USA, Virgil Houtkooper USA, Don Huisman USMC, Roland J. Hulstein USA, Robert Huyser ANG, Bennis J. Jans USA, Merlyn V. Johnson USA, Gerald W. Juffer USA, Daryl Kleinhesselink USA, Arlyn Kleinwolterink USAF, John Koerselman USN, Daniel W. Kooiker ANG, Larry Koopmans USA, Robert F. Koopmans USMC, Bernard Koops Jr. USA, Henrich L. Kraayenbrink USAF, Allan Kramer USA, Henry L. Kroon ANG, John A. Kruid USA, Leroy G. Kruid USAF, Marvin H. Kruid USA, David P. Kruse USA, Ralph D. Lammers II USA, John Langstraat USA, David A. Lein USN, Louis A. Louwerse USA, John S. Maatman USA, Richard E. Magnuson USAF, Terry McGilvra USA, Harry Allen Meendering USA, Larry J. Meyer USA, Martin J. Moeller USA, Preston Moerman ARNG, Roger Moerman USAF, Clifford J. Mol USN, Reid Mosher USAF, Glen Moss USAF, Gregory A. Mouw USA, Ken Mouw USAF, Phillip Mouw USA, Robert L. Mouw USAF, Ronald G. Mouw USA, Marvin Mulder USA, Terry L. Nibbelink USAF, Loren Olson USA, Stanley M. Oordt USA, Ronald Oostra USA, Tom Overman USAF, Larry Peterson USA, Dennis E. Pieper USA, Jerry Plasier USA, Warren L. Post USA, Michael Bruce Prince, Richard Prince Jr. USA, Leslie Punt ANG, Hans Rodenburgh USN, Ronald Roskam USA, Glenn A. Rozeboom USAF, Gerus Rubingh USAF, Wilfert Gene Rus USA, Rick Ryan USN, Daniel J. Sandbulte USA, Leon Schimmel USA, Arnold W. Schoellerman USA, Robert L. Schuiteman USA, Randall K. Schutt USA, Marlow Scheffer USA, Albert Schelling USA, Harold Schelling USA, James E. Smith USA, Perry Sneller USA, Stan Sneller USN, Dennis J. Spitler USA, Carl S. Sybesma USA, Jon A. Sybesma USMC, Leon M. Tegrotenhuis, Loran K. Tegrotenhuis USA, Donald G. Tennapel USAF, Judson R. Tepaske USN, Leon Terpstra, Lewis B. Terpstra USA, Myron D. Toering USAF, Robert A. VanBallegooyen USA, Klaas F. VanBeek USA, Wilmer J. VandeBerg USA, William "Bill" VandeHoef USN, Harlan VandeHoef USA, Dennis W. VandenBerg USN, Ronald VandenBerg USN, Marlin VandenBosch USA, Herm VandenHul USAF, Eldon VanderBerg USA, Michael L. VanderPol USA, Delbert VanderSchaaf USA, Jay A. VanderStouwe USA, Harlyn J. VanderVliet USA, Walt VanderWaal USAF, Gene VanderWeide USA, Larry L. VanderWeide USMC, Hugh VanderWilt ANG, Ken VanderZiel ARNG, Bennie J. VanderZwaag USAF, Russell D. VandeVegte USA, Conrad VandeZandschulp USMC, Marvin D. VandeZandSchulp USA, Floyd A. VanEngen USN, Quentin VanEssen USAR, Jeroy H. VanMiddendorp, Larry Larue VanMuyden USA, Donald L. VanOtterloo USA, Arthur D. VanRavenhorst Jr. USA, Arlen VanRavenswaay USA, Conrad VanRoekel USA, Larry L. VanRoekel USAF, Lyle L. VanRoekel USA, Wall 5, side 2: , Operations Desert Shield / Desert Storm Kuwait 1991 , Served - 2,225,000 . Killed in Action - 147 . Wounded in Action - 467, Vietnam War , Ned VanSteenwyk USA, Paul VanSteenwyk USA, Conrad VanVoorst USAF, Don VanVoorst USA, Gary G. VanVoorst USMC, Gerald VanVoorst USA, Harlan L. VanVoorst USA, Henry A. VanVoorst USMC, Kenneth J. VanVoorst USN, Myron "Mike" VanVoorst USN, Wayne VanVoorst USA, Glenn A. VanWyhe USA, Corneil I. Verduin USA, Dale Verduin USA, James Verduin USA, Bruce A. Verhoef USAF, Daniel J. Verhoef USA, Philip Vermeer ARNG, Bruce H. Vernon USAF, Dennis G. Visser USA, Larry J. Visser USA, Marlyn T. Visser USA, Stanton L. Visser USA, James A. Vos USA, Dennis Walstra USAR, William G. Wassink USA, Duane F. Winterfeld USA, Terry J. Winterfeld USA, Alvin Wissink USA, Sherman Wissink USA, Jim Wolfswinkel ANG, John K. Wolfswinkel ANG, Arthur J. Zeilenga USA, Marlo D. Zeutenhorst USA, Marlyn G. Zeutenhorst USAF, Lyle J. Klein ARNG, Dennis L. Zomermaand USAF, Edwin H. Zomermaand USA, Peter L. Zomermaand USAF, Henry W. Langstraat USA, Norm Te Slaa USA, Gerald J. Kleene USA, Anthony "Teak" Van Ravenswaay ARNG, Robert Van Ruler ANG, Robert D. Kleene USA, Peacetime , Merrill C. Bohnenkamp Jr. USMC, Reginald C. Boot USA, Dale E. Brands USA, David L. Bruinsma ARNG, Lisa Bruinsma Timmer ARNG, Michael T. Franken USN, Christina Goemaat USA, Randal B. Harlow USAF/ANG, Steven E. Harlow ARNG, David J. Horstman ARNG, Dedra A. Leffring USAF, Todd J.D. Leffring USAF, Renae Wierda Macy USAF, Jeff Matheis ARNG, Richard P. McManimon USA, Douglas H. Moret USN, Leo Nyhof ARNG, Lyle Nyhof ARNG/ANG, Jim Oliver ARNG, Dean Reichert ARNG, Derek Schenk USA, Garry Schenk USMC, Teresa Schenk USA, Victor D. Schiebout ARNG, Douglas G. VanBeek ARNG, Tim B. VanDonge USMC, Tim VanEngelenhoven USN, Alvin VanRavenswaay USAF, Evan VanRegenmorter USMC, Joe VanSchouwen ARNG, Jeffrey A. Visser USAF, Donald Walburg ARNG, Rick L. Wierda USAF, Terry Wiersma USAF, Randy S. Wiese USA, Panama Conflict , Larry Rensink USA, Wall 6, side 1: , War On Terror 2001 - , Terrorism knows no borders, it seldom has a face. We will continue to fight terror, to protect our freedom and this place. , Sioux Center - KIA , William "B Jay" Leusink, Gulf War/Post Gulf War , Rob Baker USMC, Danny Barnes USA, Dan Bruinsma USAF, Jason Bruinsma USN, Nathan L. Brunsting USA, Mark A. Cleveringa ARNG, Susan Vermeer Cox USAF, Brian Damstra USN, Emily VanVoorst Davis ARNG, Teunis "Tom" G. DeBondt USMC, Vincent DeGroot ANG, Scott E. Driesen USA, Dan Hodgson USAF, Shawn M. Huisman USMC, Karlowe Kroon USAF, Holly Menke Salsman USAF, Scott Mulder USAF, Robin Huygens Ortega USAF, Alex Peat USAF, Michael R. Popovich USAF, Chad M. Robertson USN, David Samani USAF, Gary L. Schaap USAF, Garry Schenk USA, Keith D. Stahl ARNG, Troy D. Tennapel USAF, Lyle VanderSchaaf USAF, Scott VanVoorst USAF, Y. Brad VanVoorst USMC, Brandy L. Borchers ANG, Jeris Visscher ANG, Justin Zevenbergen USA, Ryan Moret USN, Global War On Terror , Michael Apol USAF, Mick Argo ARNG, Anousinh Richard Baccam ARNG, Matthew L. Behrens ARNG, Richard Bleeker USMC, Allen L. Bloemendaal ARNG/USA, Benjamin T. Bloemendaal ANG, Cory A. Bloemendaal ARNG, Tyler Bohnenkamp USMC, Sean Brons USMC, Christen Brouwer Elms USAF, James Bruinsma USMC, Blake Bruns USAF, Teri Byl USAF, Michael E. DeBoer USA, Davis M. DeJong ANG, Dustin A. DeJong ARNG, Jeremy Eric DeWit ANG, Dan Doornink USN, Aaron Dreise USA, Bradley Emerson USN, Brian L. Erickson USN, Michael T. Franken USN, Curtis J. Hayes USCG, Keith Hoekstra USMC, Dustin Horstman USA, Alexander Hurtado USMC, Calvin Hurtado USMC, Diego Hurtado USMC, Jeffrey A. Husa ANG, Brett A. Huyser USAF, Christopher J. Huyser ANG, Matthew Huyser ANG, Kenzie Huyser Buhl ANG, Tyler L. Jacobsma USMC, Meggan Jacobsma Purkett USAF, Adam Koopman ARNG, Jaime Koopman ARNG, Jeremy D. Kruid USMC, Jonathan W. Leffring ANG, William "B Jay" Leusink USMC, Benjamin Leusink ARNG, Landon Nohava USA, Kevin Paultz USA, Daniel J. Peat USN, Serina Peterson USAF, Mitchell F. Phomphakdy USMC, Ned E. Popovich USA, Wade O. Popovich USA, Trevor Pritchard USAF, Austin Reichle USA, Nathaniel J. Renes USAF, Bradley Ribbens USAF, Colten Rozeboom USA, Matthew Sandbulte USMC, Jessica Sneller ARNG, Matthew Sneller USA, Jeremy Spaans USMC, Eric Swets USN, Andrew TerHaar ANG, Anthony TerHaar USA, Daniel TerHaar USAF, Jonathan TerHaar USAF, Apolonio "Polo" Topete USMC, Jessica Tubergen ARNG, Jade VandeKamp USMC, Wall 6, side 2: , freedom is not free, Global War On Terror , Nicholas VandeKieft ARNG, Wade VandenBurg ARNG, Joshua VanderSchaaf USN, Lloyd VanderSchaaf USN, Brent A. VandMiddendorp ARNG, Trevor VanMiddendorp ARNG, Daniel VanSchouwen USA, David VanSchouwen ANG, Jacob VanSchouwen USA, Joshua VanSchouwen USA, Cory L. VanSloten ARNG, Tygue Wierda USA, Kevin Wynia ARNG, Bruce K. VanderWilt USAF, Jordan A. Carlson ARNG, Paul De Stigter USAF, Matthew L. Punt ARNG
Lest We Forget
U.S. and Sioux Center timeline:
1775---
Battle of Lexington
Battle of Concord
2nd Continental Congress formed
Battle of Bunker Hill
Olive Branch Petition issued
USS independence commissioned
Military Branches: Army-Navy- Marines established
George Washington appointed Commander of Continental Army
Patrick Henry's Speech "Give me Liberty or Give me Death"
Benjamin Franklin appointed first Postmaster General
1776---
British capture New York City
United States becomes nation's new name
Virginia is first state to enact its own constitution
"Common Sense" published
"Wealth of Nations" published
"The American Crisis" published
Nathan Hale executed by British
Declaration of Independence issued
Battle of Trenton
1777---
Battle of Saratoga
Official Flag "Stars and Stripes" Design
Continental Army winters at Valley Forge
Battle of Brandywine
Battle of Princeton
Battle of Germantown
1781---
Battle of Yorktown
Articles of Confederation ratified
6th Pennsylvania Regiment mutinies
1783---
Treaty of Paris ends Revolutionary War
George Washington resigns commission
Pennsylvania Evening Post is 1st Daily Paper
Approximately
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100,000 Tories emigrate
Last British troops leave America
Continental Army disbanded
Newburgh conspiracy
1787---
Delaware is first state to ratify U.S. Constitution
Northwest Ordinance passed
Shay's rebellion ends
Federalist Papers published
Constitutional Convention adopts U.S. Constitution
Bill of Rights is promised
Three-Fifths Compromise
Connecticut Compromise
James Madison introduces the Virginia Plan
1787 Constitutional Convention held in Philadelphia
1789---
George Washington becomes president
New York City temporary capital
U.S. Congress meets for first time
Bill of Rights introduced to Congress
First Tariff Act passed
George Washington forms first Cabinet
First Judiciary Act passed
John Adams becomes first Vice-President
Thomas Jefferson becomes first Secretary of State
Henry Knox becomes first Secretary of War
Alexander Hamilton becomes first Secretary of the Treasury
1791---
Whiskey Act passed
Pierre Charles L'Enfant designs Washington DC
First Bank of the United States is established
U.S. capital named "Washington DC"
Vermont is admitted as the 14th state
Bill of Rights ratified
1800---
Library of Congress is founded
Revolution of 1800
Congress meets in DC for
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2. Sioux Center, Iowa Veterans Memorial Marker
first time
Washington DC is official capital
U.S. population exceeds five million
Quasi-War Ends
U.S. Average Life Expectancy Thirty-Five Years
House of Representatives decide presidential election (1801)
1803---
Future state of Iowa part of Louisiana Territory
First public library opens in Connecticut
Ohio is admitted as the 17th state
Congress passes the 12th Amendment
America purchases Louisiana Territory
Supreme Court Case Marbury v. Madison
1804---
Thomas Jefferson is reelected president
Aaron Burr kills Alexander Hamilton in a duel
Congress impeaches federal judge John Pickering
12th Amendment ratified
Lewis & Clark expedition begins
Lewis & Clark camp south of present day Sioux City, Iowa
1807---
Steamboat Clermont launched
Prohibiting Importation of Slaves Act
USS Chesapeake incident
Aaron Burr acquitted of treason
Embargo Act passed
1808---
Fort Madison established
James Madison elected president
1812---
War of 1812 begins
U.S. invades Canada
James Madison reelected president
Gerrymandering first used
Louisiana is admitted as 18th State
USS Constitution sinks British Frigate Guerriere
1814---
Dolly Madison saves National Treasures
Treaty of Ghent
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3. Battlefield Cross
ends War of 1812
Hartford Convention meets
Battle of Horseshoe Bend
Battle of Lake Champlain
"Star Spangled Banner" written
Battle of Fort McHenry
British forces burn Washington D.C
1816---
James Monroe elected president
Second Bank of the United States
Indiana is admitted as 19th State
Martin v. Hunter's Lessee
"Era of Good Feelings" begins
1819---
Alabama is admitted as 22nd State
Spain cedes Florida to U.S.
McCulloch v. Maryland
1820---
Missouri Compromise enacted
James Monroe reelected president
HMS Beagle launched
Maine is admitted as 23rd State
Daniel Boone dies
U.S. population approximately ten million
Missouri Compromise makes Iowa a non-slave territory
1824---
Bureau of Indian Affairs established
Gibbons v. Ogden
The "Corrupt Bargain"
"Favorite Sons" run for president
1828---
Andrew Jackson elected president
Tariff of Abominations passed
Jacksonian Democracy begins
Andrew Jackson begins "Spoils System"
1830---
First U.S. Steam Locomotive "Tom Thumb"
Webster-Hayne Senate Debate
Indian Removal Act passed
1835---
America has no National Debt
First presidential assassination attempt
Liberty Bell cracks a second time
Battle
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Years on base: 1775-1839
of Goliad
1836---
Martin Van Buren elected president
Battle of San Jacinto
Battle of the Alamo
1838---
Trail of Tears
Iowa Territory organized
1839---
Iowa & Missouri "Honey War"
U.S. Congress bans dueling in DC
1840---
U.S. population 17 million
"Penny Blacks" first issued
William Harrison elected president
1841---
Preemption Act passed
VP John Tyler becomes president
President Harrison dies
William Harrison becomes president
1844---
James K. Polk elected president
Notre Dame University Chartered
1845---
Congress designates National Election Date
Andrew Jackson dies
Edgar Allen Poe publishes "The Raven"
James Polk becomes president
American annexes Texas
First Congressional veto override
1846---
Iowa becomes the 29th state
U.S. & Canadian border established
U.S. declares War on Mexico
First Baseball game is played
Ansel Briggs first Governor of Iowa
Neptune is discovered
Oregon Treaty signed
Construction begins on Smithsonian
1848---
Zachery Taylor elected president
California Gold Rush begins
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo signed
Seneca Falls Convention
1850---
Compromise of 1850
Fugitive Slave
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Years on base: 1840-1883
Law passed
"Scarlet Letter" published
American Express is founded
U.S. population exceeds twenty-three million
California is admitted as 31st State
Slave Trade abolished in District of Columbia
1852---
Franklin Pierce elected president
"Uncle Tom's Cabin" published
1854---
Kansas-Nebraska Act passed
Republican Party is formed
Missouri Compromise ends
1856---
Republican Party's first National Convention
Senator Charles Summer attacked
James Buchanan elected president
1857---
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Financial Panic of 1857
Spirit Lake Massacre
Iowa capital moved to Des Moines
1858---
Minnesota is admitted as 32nd State
Trans-Atlantic Cable laid
Lincoln-Douglas debates
1859---
Harper's Ferry Raid
"On the Origin of Species" published
1860---
Abraham Lincoln elected president
South Carolina secedes from Union
Pony Express makes its first delivery
Sioux County, Iowa is established
Calliope first county seat of Sioux County
U.S. population exceeds 31 million
1861---
Confederate Congress declares war on United States
President Lincoln suspends Writ of Habeas Corpus
West Virginia secedes from Virginia
First transcontinental telegraph is transmitted
Congress
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Years on base: 1886-1927
authorizes "Medal of Honor"
Battle of Athens (Croton Skirmish)
Succeeding states form the Confederacy
Abraham Lincoln becomes 16th president
First Battle of Bull Run
Confederate forces fire on Fort Sumter
Confederate forces fire on "Star of the West"
1862---
Battle of Antietam
Homestead Act passed
Congress authorizes segregated military
USS Monitor is launched & sunk
Legal Tender Act passed
Pacific Railroad Act passed
Seven Days Battle
Battle of Shiloh
Battle of Fredericksburg
Second Battle of Bull Run
Department of Agriculture established
1863---
Thomas J. Jackson dies
National Conscription Act passed
West Virginia is admitted as the 35th state
Thanksgiving proclaimed a National Holiday
Anti-Draft riots break out in NYC
Emancipation Proclamation issued
Battle of Chancellorsville
Battle of Vicksburg
Enrollment Act passed
Gettysburg Address
Battle of Gettysburg
1865---
General Lee surrenders at Appomattox Courthouse
John Wilkes Booth assassinates President Lincoln
Vice President Andrew Johnson becomes president
President Johnson restores Writ of Habeas Corpus
Steamship USS Sultana sinks in Mississippi River
Ku Klux Klan is formed
U.S. Secret Service established
Major Henry
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Years on base: 1928-1954
Wirz executed
13th Amendment ratified
Reconstruction begins (1865-1877)
Freedman's Bureau established
1868---
Decoration Day (Memorial Day) first observed
Thomas Edison patents his first invention
Ulysses S. Grant is elected president
Senate fails to impeach President Andrew Johnson
14th Amendment ratified
1870---
West Branch "Sioux Center" settled
15th Amendment ratified
Joseph Rainey sworn into House of Reps.
Christmas proclaimed a National Holiday
Robert E. Lee dies
U.S. Department of Justice established
U.S. population approximately 40 million
Standard Oil Company incorporated
1873---
First Women's prison opens
Coinage Act passed
Economic Panic of 1873
San Francisco starts cable car service
1876---
Telephone is invented
"Tom Sawyer" published
Battle of Little Big Horn
U.S. Centennial celebrated
Dewey Decimal System debuts
James Butler Hickok killed
1877---
Post Office opens in Sioux Center
Bell Telephone Company incorporated
Great Railroad Strike of 1877
Thomas Edison invents phonograph
Newspaper Washington Post is first published
Rutherford B. Hayes becomes president
First Church established in Sioux Center
Compromise of 1877
1881---
James
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Years on base: 1955-1988
A Garfield becomes president
President Garfield is assassinated
Chester A Arthur becomes president
American Red Cross founded by Clara Barton
Booker T. Washington establishes Tuskegee Institute
Barnum & Bailey Circus debuts
O.K. Corral shoot out
1883---
Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show premieres
America divided into four time zones
Brooklyn Bridge opens
Spoil System ends
Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act passed
1886---
Statue of Liberty officially dedicated
Haymarket Riot
President Cleveland marries
Coca-Cola introduced
Apache Geronimo surrenders
American Federation of Labor founded
1889---
Sioux Center School District formed (1891)
First Railroad in Sioux Center
Benjamin Harrison becomes president
Thomas Edison invents Kinetoscope
Andrew Carnegie's "Gospel of Wealth"
Jane Addams opens Hull House
1893---
Thomas Edison opens first movie studio
Grover Cleveland becomes president
Diplomatic Appropriations Act passed
Gasoline powered Automobile introduced
American Railway Union formed
Hawaiian Queen Liliuokalani overthrown
1896---
William McKinley elected president
James B. Connelly wins Gold Medal
First Modern Olympic Games are held
Rural Free Delivery Act passed
Supreme
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Years on base: 1989-2013
Court Case Plessy v. Ferguson
1898---
U.S.S. Maine explodes
Spanish-American War begins
Battle of Kettle Hill
Battle of San Juan Hill, Cuba
U.S. captures the Philippines
U.S. seizes Guam
Puerto Rico surrenders to U.S
1898 Treaty of Paris
Guam becomes a U.S. Territory
1900---
U.S. Average Life Expectancy Forty-Five Years
Foraker Act passed
U.S. population exceeds 75 million
Brownie Box Camera introduced
"The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" published
William McKinley reelected President
1901---
President McKinley assassinated
Theodore Roosevelt becomes president
Platt Amendment passed
U.S. Steel formed
Hay-Pauncefote Treaty passed
1904---
Sioux Center Christian School formed (1905)
U.S. begins Panama Canal construction
Deficiency Act passed
Roosevelt Corollary issued
Theodore Roosevelt reelected President
1906---
Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" published
Theodore Roosevelt wins Nobel Peace Prize
Hepburn Act passed
Susan B. Anthony dies
"The Bitter Cry of Children" published
Meat Inspection Act passed
World's first radio broadcast transmitted
Pure Food & Drug Act passed
1908---
General Motors formed
First Model T automobile produced
William Howard Taft
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Upper section images: American Revolution, War of 1812, Indian Wars, Mexican War, Spanish-American War
Lower section names: World War I
elected president
1910---
Boy Scouts of American founded
Camp Fire Girls founded
Halley's Comet causes mass panics
Mann-Elkins Act passed
U.S. population approximately 92 million
Mark Twain dies
Angel Island Immigration Center opens
1911---
Carry Nation dies
Cy Young retires from baseball
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Scandal
1912---
Woodrow Wilson elected president
"Bull Moose" political party formed
Arizona is admitted as the 48th state
Titanic sinks on maiden voyage
Japan gifts 2,000 Cherry Trees to Mrs. Taft
Jim Thorpe dominates Olympic games
Theodore Roosevelt shot
1913---
Harriet Tubman dies
Department of Labor established
Buffalo Nickel debuts
17th Amendment ratified
Henry Ford institutes moving assembly line
Woodrow Wilson becomes president
Federal Reserve Act passed
Underwood Tariff Act passed
16th Amendment ratified
1914---
Construction on Lincoln Memorial begins
World War I begins
Federal Trade Commission created
Clayton Antitrust Act passed
Henry Ford pays his workers $5 per day
Panama Canal officially opens
US Congress establishes Mother's Day
Babe Ruth plays his first pro game
Eastman Kodak introduces color photos
1915---
Movie
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Upper section images: Civil War
Lower section names: World War II
"Birth of a Nation" debuts
$355 is average annual income for farm laborers
$328 is average annual income for teachers
Germany is first nation to use Chemical weapons
Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan resigns
U.S. Coast Guard established
Lusitania is sunk
Germany begins unrestricted submarine warfare
1916---
Jeannette Rankin elected to Congress
Woodrow Wilson reelected president
National Defense Act establishes ROTC
Sussex is sunk by a German Submarine
Germany agrees to the Sussex Pledge
Official flag of U.S. president adopted
U.S. forces invade Dominican Republic
"Great Migration" of African Americans
1917---
Iowan Merle Hay first U.S. soldier killed in WWI
Espionage Act passed
Liberty Bonds & Victory Bonds sold
Pulitzer Prizes are first awarded
War Industries Board established
Army Nursing Corps established
Women officially serve the military for first time
Military Draft enacted
Zimmerman Telegram revealed
Blue Star Banner authorized
America enters World War I
1918---
National War Labor Board established
Pvt. James Doornink, Camp Dodge, Iowa
Sedition Act passed
Daylight Savings Time begins
Gold Star Banner authorized
Battle of the Argonne Forest
U.S. Army's 77th Divisions "Lost
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Upper section images: World War I
Lower section names: World War II
Battalion"
Alvin York most decorated soldier of WWI
World War I armistice signed
Woodrow Wilson introduces Fourteen Points plan
1919---
Sioux Center American Legion Auxiliary Unit 199 (Chartered 1920)
Sioux Center American Legion Doornink Post 199 (Chartered 1920)
U.S. Senate refuses to allow American to join League of Nations
U.S. Senate refuses to sign Treaty of Versailles
First Armistice Day celebrated
Labor Strikes & Race Riots breakout
U.S. American Legion auxiliary established
U.S. American Legion is Chartered
Red Scare begins
18th Amendment ratified
Schenck v. United States
1921---
Warren G. Harding becomes president
Emergency Quota Act passed
Iowa imposes 1st state cigarette tax
First National religious radio broadcast
First National sports radio broadcast
First National Hospital Day observed
U.S. Veterans Bureau is established
Nicola Sacco & Bartolomeo Vanzetti are found guilty
Franklin Delano Roosevelt is stricken with polio
President Harding's political appointments "Ohio Gang"
Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon introduces 'Supply-Side Economics"
1923---
Sioux Center Boy Scout Troop #1 Chartered
The "Hollywood" sign is dedicated
Insulin for diabetics becomes available
Ku Klux Klan attacks Rosewood,
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Upper section images: World War II
Lower section names: World War II
Florida
Calvin Coolidge becomes president
Warren G. Harding dies in office
1924---
National Origins Act passed
Calvin Coolidge elected president
J. Edgar Hoover appointed director of FBI
Comic strip "Little Orphan Annie" debuts
1st Negro League World Series
Teapot Dome Scandal results in indictments issued
Iowa Representative Gilbert Haugen proposes McNary-Haugen Bill
1927---
Babe Ruth hits sixty home runs
Duke Ellington opens at Cotton Club in Harlem
Henry Ford's Model T ends production
Charles Lindbergh flies across Atlantic Ocean
Nicola Sacco & Bartolomeo Vanzetti executed
Movie "Jazz Singer" debuts
1928---
Iowan Herbert Hoover elected President
Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin
Mickey Mouse debuts in "Steamboat Willie"
Ty Cobb retires with 4,191 hits
Kellogg-Briand Pact signed
1929---
Wyatt Earp dies
Babe Ruth is first to hit 500 homeruns
"All Quiet on the Western Front" is published
Albert Fall convicted of bribery
First Academy Awards Ceremony
Saint Valentines Day Massacre
Great Depression begins
Stock Market Crash
1932---
Franklin Delano Roosevelt elected president
"Dust Bowl" begins
Emergency Relief & Construction Act passed
"Bonus Army" marches on U.S.
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Upper section images: World War II
Lower section names: World War II, Peacetime
capital
American Farmers Revolt
Approximately 30,000 U.S. companies close
Amelia Earhart flies solo across Atlantic Ocean
U.S. Yearly Average Household Income was $1,600
"Dust Bowl" Years (1932-1939)
Northwest Iowa Farmers protest foreclosures (1932-1933)
1933---
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Act passed
"Fireside Chat" by FDR
21st Amendment ratified
20th Amendment ratified
Tennessee Valley Authority Act passed
Frances Perkins 1st Female Cabinet Member
Agricultural Adjustment Act passed
U.S. abandons Gold Standard
FDR declares a Bank Holiday
First New Deal begins
1935---
2nd New Deal begins
Social Security Insurance Act passed
Resettlement Act is passed
Sioux Center Boy Scout Troop 94 Chartered
Schechter v. United States
Huey Long is assassinated
Board Game Monopoly introduced
National Labor Relations Act passed
First U.S. Neutrality Act passed
1936---
Rural Electrification Act passed
Statue of Liberty's 50th Anniversary
Life magazine is first published
Jesse Owens wins four Olympic Gold Medals
First players elected to baseball Hall of Fame
Congress authorizes flag for the Vice President
United Auto Workers stage first sit-down strike
First Girt Scout unit in Sioux Center
Hoover
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Upper section images: Korean War
Lower section names: Korean War
Dam completed
FDR is re-elected president
1937---
FDR's Recession begins
FDR's Supreme Court packing bill is defeated
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs premieres
Supreme Court upholds the National Labor Relations Act
Neutrality Act of 1937 passed
Hindenburg Disaster
Amelia Earhart disappears
Golden Gate Bridge opens
Joe Lewis wins Heavyweight title
1938---
House of Representatives forms HUAC
Kate Smith sings "God Bless American"
Teflon & Fiberglas introduced
"Superman" comic debuts
The "War of the Worlds" broadcasted
First Minimum Wage enacted
Fair Labor Standards Act passed
1939---
Congress passes "Cash and Carry" Law
World War II begins SS St. Louis denied permission to dock in America
"The Grapes of Wrath" published
"The Wizard of Oz" premieres
"Gone with the Wind" premieres
"Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" premieres
Hatch Act passed
Submarine SS Squalus sinks
Marian Anderson sings in front of the Lincoln Memorial
1940---
Sioux County voters favored Wendell-Willkie for president
Sioux County Draft Board selected 2,830 men for service
U.S. population exceeds 130 million
Iowan Henry Agard Wallace elected Vice-president
U.S. declares a Hemispheric Defense Zone
First U.S. Helicopter
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Upper section images: Vietnam War
Lower section names: Korean War, Peacetime
debuts
FDR's Destroyers for Bases Deal
FDR elected to 3rd term as president
Selective Service and Training Act passed
1941---
Japan Bombs Pearl Harbor
America enters World War II
Japan invades the Philippines
Battle of Wake Island
Atlantic Charter
USS Greer incident
USS Reuben James sunk
Lend-Lease Act passed
Mount Rushmore construction finished
Jeannette Rankin votes against war
1942---
Double V Campaign begins
Battle of Guadalcanal
Bracero Program begins
Navajo Code talkers first used
Sullivan Brothers are killed in Action
Manhattan Project begins
Des Moines first training center for WAACs
Women's Army Auxiliary Corps established
Executive Order 9066 issued
Bataan Death March
Doolittle Raid
Battles of Coral Sea & Midway
1943---
Battle of Tarawa
Zoot Suit Riots
Executive Order 9320 issued
99th Pursuit Squadron 1st Combat Mission
Boy Scout Troop 211 Chartered
Lt. Albert Brunsting, English Channel
Seaman Apprentice John Dieters
TSGT. Bernard M. Vermeer, England
Sgt. Bert Kroon, Battle of Anzio, Italy
Japanese forces are defeated in Aleutians
1944---
Sioux County voters favored Thomas Dewey for president
Staff Sgt. Peter De Boer, Ground campaign in Germany
Sgt.
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Upper section images: Vietnam War
Lower section names: Peacetime, Vietnam War
Arie Moerman, Bombing run over Germany
PFC. John A. Kempers, St. Lo at La Bashare, France
Pvt. Benjamin Vermeer, Camp Hood, Texas
Servicemen's Readjustment Act (G.I. Bill) passed
Battle of Leyte Gulf
Korematsu v. United States
Battle of the Bulge
FDR elected to 4th term as president
Operation Overlord (D-Day)
1945---
Battle of Iwo Jima
Battle of Okinawa
President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies
Enola Gay drops first atomic bomb on Hiroshima
USS Indianapolis sunk
V-E Day & V-J Day
United Nations formally established
Cold War begins (1945-1989)
1st Lt. David E. Vermeer, Bombing run over Germany
Pvt. Gerrit Ter Haar, Battle of Okinawa
Sgt. Charles Aardema, Battle of Luzon
1947---
Levittown construction begins
Jackie Robinson breaks Baseball's color barrier
Baseball's World Series first televised
Loyalty Review Program begins
Chuck Yeager breaks sound barrier
Truman Doctrine issued
U.S. Air Force established
1948---
U.S. military desegregated
U.S. recognizes state of Israel
Berlin Blockade/Airlift begins
Harry S. Truman elected president
Peace Time draft reinstated
Marshall Plan passed
Alger Hiss indicted
McCollum v. Board of education
1949---
Berlin Blockade/Airlift ends
NATO
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Upper section images: Bay of Pigs - Cuba, Operation Urgent Fury Grenada, Operation Just Cause Panama
Lower section names: Vietnam War
established
1950---
McCarthyism begins
Korean War begins
McCarran Act passed
Great Brinks Robbery
Battle of Inchon
Armed Forces Day is first celebrated
U.S. population exceeds 150 million
Comic stirp "Peanuts" debuts
U.S. wins first fighter jet dogfight
Assassination attempt on President Truman
Judith Coplon convicted of spying for Soviets
1951---
William Randolph Hearst dies
James Jabara becomes first fighter jet ace
U.S. develops Hydrogen Bomb
UNIVAC revealed
TV show "I Love Lucy" debuts
Julius & Ethel Rosenberg convicted
22nd Amendment ratified
President Truman fires General MacArthur
1953---
Sioux Center Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 6129 formed
Korean War armistice is signed
Julius & Ethel Rosenberg executed for treason
Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes president
Jacqueline Cochran breaks sound barrier
Earl Warren becomes Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
1954---
Gunmen open fire in House of Representatives
"Under God" added to the Pledge of Allegiance
U.S. launches first atomic sub SS Nautilus
Armistice Day becomes Veterans Day
Brown v Board of Education
U.S. Army versus McCarthyism
1955---
Rosa Parks arrested
Montgomery Bus Boycott begins
Sioux Center's
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Upper section images: Operations Desert Shield / Desert Storm Kuwait
Lower section names: Vietnam War, Peacetime, Panama Conflict
Dordt College founded
Minimum Wage is .75 cents per hour
Disney Land opens in California
Albert Einstein dies
Gunsmoke premieres on television
Jonas Salk's polio vaccine is declared safe "In God We Trust" placed on U.S. currency
1956---
President Eisenhower reelected
Federal Highway Act passed
1957---
U.S.S.R. launches Sputnik I
Little Rock Nine
Civil Rights Act passes
Joseph McCarthy dies
$5,234 Median Income for a family of four
First Nuclear power plant opens
Senator John F. Kennedy wins Pulitzer Prize
1958---
Hoola Hoop craze hits America
Defense Reorganization Act
Operation Northwest Passage
Sherman Adams resigns
NASA is created
1959---
Kitchen Debate
NASA selects its first astronauts
Alaska & Hawaii become states
1960---
John F. Kennedy elected president
First nuclear powered aircraft carrier launched
Submarine Triton circles globe under water
Civil Rights Sit-In Protests begin
First televised presidential debate
U-2 Incident
1961---
Mapp v Ohio
Bay of Pigs Invasion
Berlin Wall begins construction
Executive Order 10924 issued
Freedom Riders attacked
23rd Amendment ratified
Alan B. Shepard is first American in space
Robert
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Upper section images: War On Terror
Lower section names: Gulf War/Post Gulf War, Global War On Terror
Kennedy becomes Attorney General
1962---
Engel v. Vitale
Baker v Carr
Cuban Missile Crisis
1963---
President John F. Kennedy assassinated
Lyndon B. Johnson becomes president
March on Washington DC
Marin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech
Gideon v. Wainwright
Lee Harvey Oswald killed
America and U.S.S.R. establish a 'Hotline"
Submarine Thresher sinks
Medgar Evers assassinated
First African-Americans graduate Air Force Academy
1964---
Douglas MacArthur dies
Race riots erupt in New York City
Martin Luther King wins Nobel Peace Prize
Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
24th Amendment ratified
Escobedo v. Illinois
Lyndon B. Johnson elected president
Warren Commission report issued
Westberry v. Sanders
1965---
Congress establishes Medicare
Congress establishes Medicaid
Race Riots erupt in Watts
Malcolm X is assassinated
March on Selma
Voting Rights Act is passed
American Edward White walks in space
Operation Rolling Thunder
Battle of La Drang Valley
1966---
Robert Weaver is first African-American cabinet member
Ronald Reagan elected Governor of California
Fair Packaging & Labor Act passed
Chester W. Nimitz dies
Child Nutrition
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Upper section: patriotic images
Lower section names: Global War On Terror
Act passes
Gemini 8 completes first space docking
Race riots erupt in Atlanta & Chicago
United Farm Workers of America is formed
Highway Safety Act is passed
Miranda v Arizona
1968---
Martin Luther King assassinated
Shirley Chisholm elected to U.S. Congress
Tet Offensive
Democratic National Convention Protest
Richard Millhouse Nixon elected president
Massacre at May Lai
Apollo 8 orbits the Moon
Cpl. Randall K. Schutt TET Offensive, Vietnam
Cpl. Arlin D. Franken, HAU NGHIA Province, Vietnam
Robert Kennedy is assassinated
PFC Robert A. Van Ballegooyen, Vietnam (1967)
1969---
Alexander v. Holmes
Dwight D. Eisenhower dies
Vietnamization Plan begins
U.S. population exceeds 200 million
Neil Armstrong walks on Moon
1970---
U.S. invades Cambodia
Kent State tragedy
First Earth Day observed
EPA established
Clean Air Act passed
Lt. Everett Alvarez longest prisoner of war
Apollo 13 incident
Chicago Seven are found not guilty
1971---
Lt. William Calley is found guilty
Amtrak begins railway service
Attica prison revolt
26th Amendment ratified
Congress extends military draft
Pentagon Papers are released
1973---
Vietnam cease fire signed
War Powers Act passed
Roe
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v Wade
Endangered Species Act passed
Senate Watergate investigation begins
OPEC Oil Embargo leads to fuel shortages
Skylab is launched into space
Vice-President Spiro Agnew resigns
"Wounded Knee" incident
1974---
USS Monitor wreck discovered
Duke Ellington dies
Hank Aaron hits his 715th homerun
Freedom of Information Act passed
United States v. Nixon
President Ford pardons Nixon
Gerald Ford becomes president
President Nixon resigns
1977---
James Carter becomes president
Federal Minimum wage is $2.30 an hour
Department of Energy established
Alaskan pipeline opens
U.S. agrees to sign over Panama Canal
Mini Series "Roots" debuts
Shuttle Enterprise makes first test flight
1979---
Camp David Accords signed (1978)
U.S. embassy in Tehran seized
Three Mile Island accident
1980---
Ronald Reagan elected president
U.S. population exceeds 226 million
Mariel Boatlift
U.S. boycotts summer Olympics
Mt. St. Helens erupts
U.S. Hockey team wins Olympic gold
Operation Eagle Claw ends in disaster
Love Canal declared Federal disaster area
Mothers Against Drunk Driving formed
1981---
133rd Army Infantry National Guard Unit established in Sioux Center
Sandra Day O'Connor becomes
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first female Supreme Court Justice
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome is identified
President Reagan fires air traffic controllers
President Reagan introduces Reaganomics
Space Shuttle Columbia orbits Earth
Assassination attempt on President Reagan
American Hostages in Iran are released
1983---
U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon bombed
Reagan proposes Strategic Defense initiative
Operation Urgent Fury launched
Martin Luther King's birthday a national holiday
U.S. Marine barracks bombed in Beirut, Lebanon
Guion Bluford is first African-American in space
U.S. spacecraft Pioneer 10 leaves Solar System
Sally Ride is first American woman in space
1984---
Bruce Springsteen releases "Born in the U.S.A."
Kathryn Sullivan first woman to walk in space
Federal Government bails out U.S. banks
Ronald Reagan is reelected president
1986---
Iran-Contra Scandal
Space shuttle Challenger explodes
Statue of Liberty celebrates its 100th birthday
National Debt exceeds $2 trillion
U.S. bombs Libya
Jonathan Pollard convicted of spying for Israel (1987)
1988---
USS Vincennes shoots down Iranian passenger jet
George H.W. Bush elected president
1989---
Exxon Valdez disaster
Berlin Wal is torn down
Cold War ends
Operation
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Just Cause
DC-10 crashes in Sioux City, Iowa
House Speaker Jim Wright resigns
47 USS Iowa Seamen are killed
1991---
Minimum Wage is $4.25 per hour
U.S. population exceeds 250 million
Operation Desert Storm begins
1993---
Black Hawk down incident in Somalia
William J. Clinton becomes president
World Trade Center bombed
Whitewater Investigation begins
Military policy of "Don't ask, don't tell" begins
Holocaust Museum in Washington DC opens
1994---
Aldrich Adams convicted of spying for Russia
Contract with America introduced
NAFTA enacted
U.S. intervenes in Bosnia (1995)
2000---
Supreme Court Case Bush v. Gore
George W. Bush elected president
Sioux Center 67% of population is of Dutch heritage USS Cole Bombing
International Space Station begins operations
Sioux Center's population exceeds 6,000 residents
2001---
War on Terrorism begins
Operation Enduring Freedom begins
Nearly 3,000 Americans are killed on 9/11
9/11 Terrorist attacks on America
2003---
U.S. invades Iraq
Space shuttle Columbia breaks up
Department of Homeland Security officially begins operations
Human genome Project completed
Army Staff Sergeant Eric Maddox is credited with the capture of Saddam
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Hussein
2006---
Construction on the Freedom Tower in New York City begins
U.S. Army decommissions last M.A.S.H. unit
Western Union discontinues use of its telegram service
NASA launches New Horizons probe
Lance Cpl. William J. Leusink, Anbar Province, Iraq
2008---
Barak Obama elected president
Emergency Economic Stabilization Act passed
2013---
NSA Documents leaked to the public
Sioux Center's Veterans Memorial is dedicated on 11-11-2013
Barak Obama begins second term as president
Sioux Center's population exceeds 7,200 residents
U.S. Navy Seal Team VI kills Terrorist Osama Bin Laden
Wall 1, side 1: American Revolution 1775 - 1783
Served - 217,000*
Killed in Action - 4,435
Wounded in Action - 6,188
*VA estimate
War of 1812 1812 - 1815
Served - 286,730
Killed in Action - 2,260
Wounded in Action 4,505
Indian Wars 1817 - 1898
Served - 106,000*
Killed in Action - 1,000*
*VA estimate
Mexican War 1846 - 1848
Served - 78,718
Killed in Action - 13,283
Wounded in Action - 4,152
Spanish-American War 1898 - 1902
Served - 306,760
Killed in Action - 385
Wounded in Action - 1,662
World
War I
Klaas Aardema USA, Nicholas Aardema USA, Nonnie Aardema USA, Lutje Achterhof USA, Peter Arendsen USA, Raymond P. Balkema USN, John Bierma USA, Gerrit H. Blekkink USA,
Gerrit Boerma USA, Edward Bolluyt USA, Joe N. Bomgaars USA, Ben Borgman USA, Seine Brandts USA, William Brandts USA, Henry Brinkman USA, James Brommer USA,
Nick Buyert USA, Gerrit Bernard Debey USA, William DeBruyn USA, George W. Dekraay USA, Henry Dekraay USA, William E. DeMots USA, Gerrit J. DenHerder USA,
Teunis "Tony" DenHerder USA, Dr. Seine Bolks Depree USA, George DeRuyter USN, John DeRyke USA, Edward DeVos USA, Adrian Dewitt USA, Arie Dibbet USA, Floyd Dickman USN,
Fred Dickman USA, Fred C. Dierks USA, James Doornink USA, Martin Dykshoorn USA, Albert Dykstra USA, Gradus Feekes USA, Opke Feekes USA, William Goemans USA,
Jacob Harmsen USA, David Heusinkveld USA, Mark Meusinkveld USA, Ray Hogan USA, Syne Hogan USA, William A. Hubers USA, William Huitink USA, Gerrit W. Hulstein USA,
Jerry J. Jansen USA, Andrew Jansma USA, John J. Janson USA, John J. Johnson USA, Conrad Jongewaard USN, Gerrit Juffer USA, Lee H. Kiel USA, Ben Kooi USA, Fred Kooi USA,
Clarence "Case" Kooistra USA, Dick Kruizenga Jr. USA, Charles J. Kuyper USA, William D. Lammers USA, John Landegent USA, Adrianus "Ed" Langstraat USA, Lyle E. Mantor USA,
Dr. William Maris USA, Thomas F. McDonald, William L. Mieras USA, Albert A. Mouw USA, Peter B. Mouw USA, Allan Muilenburg USA, Dave Muilenburg USA, Harry Muilenburg USA,
Hubert Muilenburg USA, Ernest Mulder USA, James Mulder USA, Andrew Nettinga USA, Hendrikus "Henry" Nicolay USA, Anna Ossenwarde USA, William K. Pasma USA,
Evert J. Plantage USA, John Pluim USA, Benjamin Poll USA, J. Reynold Postma USN, Cornelius A. Punt USA, Cornelius "Neal" C. Punt USA, Cornelius "Neal" M. Punt USA,
Sanderis "Sam" A. Punt USA, William Punt, George Riemersma USA, James J. Riemersma USA, Herman Rowenhorst USA, Neal J. Rozeboom USA, John Scheffer USA, Andrew Schoep USA,
William Schuiteman USA, Steve Slappendal USA, John H. Slickers USA, Volkert Spijker USN, William Termeer USA, Albert Terpstra USA, Edward Teveltrup USA, Gerrit Tilstra USA,
Ralph Top USA, Stephen Top USA, Alvin S. Tostlebe USN, Jacob Vanek USA, Andrew VanBeek USA, Bert H. VandeBrake USA, Pearson G. VandeBrake USA, Gerrit VanderLugt USA,
Dick VanderMeer USA, William VanderMey USA, Herman VanderMuelen USA, Cornelius VanderStelt USA, James VanderStoep, RIchard H. VanderStoep USA,
Rients "Ray" VanderWeide USA, Arnold VanderWilt USA, Hessel VanderZee USA, Peter VanDyke USA, John VanGorkum USA, Bernard VanHeukelom USA, Martin VanNoort USA,
John C. VanOosbree USA, Chester Otis VanPeursen USN, Joe VanRavenswaay USA, William VanRoekel USA, John VanSteenbergen USA, Bernard VanSteenwyk,
Jacob W. VanSteenwyk USA, Teunis VanVeldhuizen USA, Paul Veenkamp USA, Gerrit G. Vermeer USA, Gerrit W. Visser USA, Gysbert Visser USA, Rykman "Richard" Wichers USA,
George H. Winter USA, Arnold Winterfeld USA, Herman Winterfeld USA, Louis H. Winterfeld USA, Henry J. Wissink USA, Herman J. Wissink USA
Wall 1, side 2: Civil War 1861 - 1865
General Ulysses S. Grant
United States President Abraham Lincoln
Confederate States President Jefferson Davis
General Robert E. Lee
Union Army
Served - 2,213,363
Killed in Action - 364,511
Wounded in Action - 281,881
Confederate Army
Served - 1,064,000
Killed in Action - 164,821
Wounded - 137,000
Based on incomplete records
World War II
Charles Aardema USA, Clarence Aardema USN, Eugene J. Achterhof USN, Floyd E. Achterhof USCG, Henry W. Addink USA, Henry William Addink USN, Elmer J. Altena USA,
James Altena, Julius Altena USA, Arnold "Buster" Arendsen USN, George F. Armington USA, Arthur Attema USA, Jake Attema USA, Tunis "Tony" Attema USA, Henry Baker USN,
Marion J. Baker USA, Clayton N. Balkema USA, Eugene S. Bartels AAF, James A. Bartels USA, Paul D. Bauer USN, William R. Beernink USMC, Alfred Beukelman USN,
Bert Beuzekom USA, Carl Bierma USA, Syne Bierma USA, William B. Bierma USA, Henry M. Blankespoor USA, Lawrence Bleeker USA, William "Billy" Bleeker USN,
Albert "Bud" E. Bodnar USA, Jacob Boeyink USN, Paul W. Boeyink AAC, Nickolas J. Bomgaars USA, Richard Bonnema USA, William D. Boone USA, Alfred J. Borgman USA,
Lawrence Bos USA, Richard Bos Jr. AAC, Gerald G. Bosch USA, Fred W. Braakman USA, John Brantsen USN, Gerald H. Breneman AAC, Arthur Brenneman USA,
Daryle A. Brink AAC, Donald E. Brink AAC, Albert Broek USA, Barney Broek USA, David B. Broek USA, John Broek AAC, Donald Brommer USA, Lester Brommer AAF,
Lloyd A. Brown USA, Aldred Bruins USA, Robert Bruins USA, Albertus "Bert" Bruinsma USA, Reynold Bruinsma USA, Albert Brunsting AAC, Arlene De Mots Brunsting USN WAVE,
Bernard Robert Brunsting AAC, Hans Burgers USA, Percy Bylsma USA, Gerald F. Calsbeek USA, Stanley Campagne USA, Earl W. Clary USA, Herman S. Clemens USN,
Donald Paul Colon USN, Henry Coulander USA, Raymond F. Debey USA, George DeBoer USN, John DeBoer USA, Oscar DeBoer USA, Peter DeBoer USA, Bernard DeBondt USA,
Gerrit DeBondt USA, John DeGoei USA, Donald R. DeGooyer USA, Marvin DeGooyer USA, Abraham DeGroot USA, Cornelius DeGroot USA, Henry A. DeGroot USA,
Henry J. DeGroot USA, Henry Neal DeGroot USA, John H. DeGroot Jr. USA, John R. DeGroot USA, John W. DeGroot USA, Reuben DeGroot USA, Gary Deinken USA,
Angeline Deiters USN WAVE, Harold Deiters USN, Herman Deiters Jr. USN, John Deiters USNR, Art DeKoter USA, Robert D. DeKraay USN, Thomas DeLange USA,
Ringert G. DeMots USN, Pershing J. DenHartog AAC, Alvin DenHerder USA, Gerald E. DenHerder USN, Jake DenOuden USA, Seine Byron DePree USN, David DeRuyter USN,
George M. DeRuyter USMC, Jacob J. DeRyke USA, Cornelius DeStigter USA, Melvin DeStigter USA, Peter DeStigter USA, John DeVries USA, John H. DeVries AAF,
Lorance E. DeVries USA, Dick DeWeerd USA, Gerald DeWeerd USA, Lawrence DeWild AAC, James A. DeWit USA, John A. DeZeeuw Jr. USA, John Dibbet USA,
Wilbur Dokkumburg USN, Clarence J. Dorhout AAC, Nicholas Draayer USA, John Droog USA, Dick J. Duits USN, Peter Duits USN, Egbert "Bert" J. Dykhuizen USA,
Neal Dykhuizen USA, Henry Dykstra USA, Cornelius Elshuis USA, Henrietta Eppink USA, Herman J. Eppink USA, Arnt Espeset USN, Norman J. Evenhuis USA,
Arnold J. Feekes USA, Ted W. Feekes USA, Theo "Ted" H. Feekes USA, Edward H. Foreman USN, J. Lester Foreman AAC, Dries Franken USA, Everett G. Franken AAC,
Everett J. Franken USA, Gerrit H. Franken Jr. USA, Henry A. Franken USA, Henry E. Franken USA, Howard Franken USA, Joe Franken USN, Louis G. Franken USA,
Ernest J. Gerritsma USA, William D. Godsey USA, John Gosling USA, Theodore T. Goslinga USA, Peter Groen USA, James Robert Groff USA, Marvin J. Grotenhuis USA
Wall 2, side 1: World War I 1917 - 1918
Served - 4,734,991
Killed in Action - 53,402
Wounded in Action - 204,002 Sioux Center - KIA
James Doornink ·
Gerrit Tilstra
World War II
Peter Haak USA, Cornelius R. Haverhals USA, Fred Herweyer USN, William Herweyer USA, Elmer J. Heusinkveld USA, Edward A. Hoeven, Evert A. Hoeven USN,
Bernard Hogan USA, James John Hollander USN, Samuel Holtrop USA, Alfred J. Hoogland USA, John "Johnny" Hoogland USA, Henry Hooyer USN, Henry Hubers USA,
Wilbur Huisman USA, Gerrit R. Hulstein USA, Raymond Hulstein USA, Charles R. Irwin USA, Edward H. Jansen USA, Marion Jasper USA, Albert J. Jongewaard USN,
Richard C. Jongewaard USN, Ringert "Gene" Eugene Jongewaard USA, Harry "Pete" Juffer USN, James "Hans" L. Juffer USN, Arnold Kaemingk USA, Arthur Kamerman USN,
Russell Kamerman USA, Gilbert Keizer USA, Roy J. Kelley USMC, John A. Kempers USA, Marion Kempers USA, Gerrit Kersbergen USA, Howard Kiel USA, Wilbert Kleene USA,
Clarence Klein USA, Herman G.J. Klein USA, James Klein AAF, John J. Klein USA, Sam A. Klein USA, Harold D. Kleinwolterink USA, Gary Koerselman AAC,
Orville K. Koerselman USN, Lewis B. Kooi USA, Raymond Kooi USN, James Koops USA, Bernard W. Koops USA, Gerrit William Kosters USN, Lloyd E. Kots USA,
Albert Kramer USA, Steve Kramer USN, Charles "Max" M. Kreutz AAC, Bernard C. Kroon USN, Bert Kroon USA, Henry "Tubby" John Kroon USN, Richard J. Kroon AAC,
William "Billy" J. Kroon USN, Gertrude Kroon-Plattner USN WAVE, Dick J. Kruizenga USA, Harry Kuhl USA, Gysbert E. Kuyper USA, Harold Lenters USA, John Lihudis USA,
Abe Louwerse AAC, Howard Lubach USA, Elmer H. Lutjens USA, Robert Malisch USA, Henry Marema USA, Dr. Arthur L. McGilvra USA, Albert H. Meendering USA,
Richard Meyer USA, Willis "Bill" Meylink USA, Helen Mieras USN, Lawrence H. Miller USA, Walter Mitchell AAC, Jacob "Jack" Moeller USA, Joyce Boeyink Moeller USN WAVE,
Kenneth Arthur Moeller USN, Adrian Moerman USA, Arie "Harry" Moerman USA, Cornelius Moerman USA, Peter Moerman Jr. USA, William "Bill" Moerman USA,
Clarence T. Mol USA, Cornelius C. Mol USN, Neal J. Mol AAC, Henry J. Moret USN, Lloyd Morrow, Albert Moss USA, Edward A. Moss USA, Bernard N. Mouw AAC,
Clarence J. Mouw, Donald Mouw USMC, Harold B. Mouw USN, Irvin Mouw USA, Lawrence Mouw USA, Marvin Mouw USN, Melvin J. Mouw USA, Steven Mouw USA,
Vernon P. Mouw USN, William L. Mouw USA, Everett Muilenburg USA, Wallace Muilenburg USA, Bernard A. Mulder USN, Dick B. Mulder USA, Elmer D. Mulder USA,
Gary Mulder USA, James A. Mulder USN, James E. Mulder USA, John H. Mulder USA, Gerald Nettinga USA, Eugene F. Newel USA, Lubbert Niessink USA,
Bernard Niezink USA, Elvin Norman USN, Dr. Carl D. Oelrich USA, John "Jack" M. Oliver USN, Arie J. Olivier USA, Arie P. Olivier USA, Asa Olivier USA, George M. Olson USA,
Alfred Pals USA, Dale Pas USN, Dean Peterson USA, William Peuse USA, William E. Plantage USA, Lester R. Ploeger USN, Gerrit Postma USA, Martin Punt USN,
Marvin Punt USA, G. Dennis Raak USMC, Gerald Ramaker USA, Bert Regnerus AAC, Gerald R. Reinders USA, Robert Rens USA, William Rens USA, Douglas Ribbens USA,
Theodore "Ted" Ribbens USN, William Frank Richmond USA, Wilbur Riemersma USA, Bernard Riepma USA, Henry W. Rikkers USN, Jack Rodibaugh USA,
Gerrit "Hein" H. Roelofs USA, Henry J. Roelofs USN, Stanley Roelofs AAC, Edwin Roetman USA, Edward J. Roghair USA, John Roos USA, Gerrit Roskam USA
Wall 2, side 2: World War II 1941 - 1945
Served - 16,112,566
Killed in Action - 291,557
Wounded in Action - 670,846 Sioux Center - POW
Donald Brommer ·
Lester W. VanGorkum ·
Gilbert Wallenburg
World War II
Dick J. Rozebooom USA, Garret H. Rozeboom, Garrett G. Rozeboom USA, James Rozeboom USA, William R. Rozeboom USA, Howard Ruisch USA, Theodore "Ted" Ruisch USA,
Leona Boeyink Russell USN WAVE, Bernard H. Sandbulte AAF, John H. Sandbulte USA, Andrew Santema USN, Bernard J. Santema USN, James Santema USA,
John C. Schaap USN, Cornelius R. Schelling USA, Ralph Schelling AAF, Abe Schiebout USA, Benjamin Schiebout USN, Chris Schiebout USA, Ferdinand Schiebout AAC,
Joe Schiebout AAC, Adrian H. Scholten USA, Henry J. Schouten USA, Peter C. Schouten USA, Arthur J. Schuiteman USA, Arthur W. Schuiteman USA,
Gerald R. Schut USMC, John F. Schut USA, Marvin G. Schutt USN, Alton Shafer USN, Steve C. Siebersma USA, Myron W. Siemen USA, Clarence Sjaarda USA,
Donald Sjaarda USA, Gerald John Sjaarda USA, Elmer L. Slob USA, Alfred W. Smith USN, William Martin Sneller USA, Bernard Spenkelink USA, John H. Stock AAC,
Albert J. Tamminga AAC, James Tamminga USA, William Tamminga USA, William H. Taylor USA, Marvin Tegrotenhuis USA, Milo V. Tegrotenhius USN, Adelphos "Del" H. Tepaske USA,
Garrit TerHaar USA, Cecil J. Thomas USA, John E. Vanaller USMC, C. A. VanAndel USA, Lawrence VanAndel USMC, Henry A. VanBeek AAC, Severt VanBerkel USA,
Cornelius VanBochove USA, Maurice J. VandeBerg USA, Theodore Martin VandeBerg USN, James "Bud" C. VandeBerg USA, Clarence L. VandeBrake USA, John A. VandeBrake USA,
Marion VandeBrake USA, Dr. Gerald C. VandeGarde USA, Peter VandeGriend AAF, John E. VandeKerk USA, John VandeKieft USA, Alvin G. VandeBerg USN,
Clarence VandenBerg USA, Gerrit "Gary" Vandenberg USA, James "Jerry" G. VandenBerg USA, Richard VandenBerg USA, Theodore W. VandenBerg USA, Richard VandenBrink AAF,
David L. VanderBerg, Elmer H. VanderBerg USN, Gerrit W. VanderBerg, James L. VanderBerg USA, Cornelius VanderBrink USA, Raymond VanderBroek USAF,
Robert VanderBroek USN, Jake B. VanderGriend USA, Dick VanderHoef USA, Henry VanderKerk USN, Edward VanderPloeg USN, Elmer C. VanderPloeg USA,
Harold VanderPloeg AAC, J. Freeman VanderPloeg USA, Marion VanderPol USA, Sam VanderSchaaf USA, Gerrit VanderStelt USA, Andrew D. VanderStoep USA,
Andrew VanderVliet USA, Everett Vanderweerd USA, Lawrence VanderWeerd USN, Edward VanderWeide AAC, Henry VanderWeide USA, John P. VanderWeide USA,
George VanEngen USA, Gerrit VanEngen USA, Lester W. VanGorkum AAC, Earl VanGorp USA, Ricard VanHill AAF, Gerrit J. VanHolland AAC, Harry VanHunnick USN,
Albert VanKley USA, Bert VanMaanen USN, Dick VanMaanen Jr. USA, Gerrit B. VanMaanen USA, Irwin VanMarel USA, Cornelius VanMiddendorp USA, Lester VanMuyden USA,
Marvin VanMuyden USA, Milton VanMuyden USA, Peter VanMuyden USA, Chris L. VanOosbree USN, Cornelius VanOosbree USA, John C. VanOosbree Jr. USA,
Anton "Tony" VanOosbree USN, Adrian VanRavenswaay USN, Gerald VanRavenswaay USA, Gerald VanRavenswaay USN, Dick VanRegenmorter USA, Abraham VanRoekel USA,
Gordon VanRoekel USA, Kenneth W. VanRoekel USA, Merle VanRoekel USA, Warren VanRoekel USA, Cornelius VanSchouwen USA, Henry VanSloten USA
Wall 3, side 1: World War II 1941 - 1945 Sioux Center - KIA
Charles Aardema ·
Albert Brunsting ·
Peter DeBoer ·
John Deiters ·
Jake DenOuden ·
John A. Kempers ·
Bert Kroon ·
Arie "Harry" Moerman ·
John F. Schut
Garrit TerHaar ·
John A. VandeBrake ·
Benjamin Vermeer ·
Bernard M. Vermeer ·
David E. Vermeer ·
Gerrit J. Vis ·
Wallace C. Winans ·
Bernard Ykema
World War II
Cedric F. VanSteenwyk USN, William "Arny" A. VanSteenwyk Jr. AAC, Nick R. Vantil USA, Harry VanVoorst USA, John H. VanVoorst USA, Maurice VanVoorst USN,
Richard H. VanVoorst USMC, Ted VanVoorst USA, Arthur VanWyhe USA, Joseph VanZweden USN, Conrad J. Veenkamp AAC, George Howard Veldboom RCAF,
Lawrence Vellinga USA, Rodney Vellinga USA, William P. Verduin AAC, Andrew K. Vermeer USA, Arnold J. Vermeer USA, Benjamin Vermeer USA, Bernard E. Vermeer AAC,
Bernard M. Vermeer AAC, David E. Vermeer AAC, E. Wayne Vermeer USA, Gerald James Vermeer USA, Harold B. Vermeer USN, James Vermeer USN, Loyd W. Vermeer USN,
Ross K. Vernon USA, Arie M. Verrips USN, Gary H. Verrips AAC, Carl Versteeg USA, Cedric Versteeg USA, Gerrit J. Vis USA, Gerrit W. Visser USA, Gilbert W. Visser USA,
John A. Visser USA, John J. Visser USA, Leonard Visser USA, Peter Visser USA, James Henry Vlieger USN, William Vlieger AAC, Henry Vogel, Leroy Vogel AAF,
William Vogel USA, Ben Vonk Jr. USA, Henry Vonk USA, John W. Vonk USN, Arend Voorderman USA, John Voortman USA, Richard Voortman USA, Gerrit "Gary" W. Vreeman USA,
Gilbert Wallenburg USA, Merrill H. Wallinga DVM USA, Harold D. Wandscheer USN, John Wandscheer AAC, Floyd Wanningen USN, Charles Warren USA, Arend T. Wassink USA,
Jesse Knight Wells USN, Arthur H. Wesselink USN, Edward Wesselink USA, Gerrit Willem Wesselink AAC, John A. Wesselink USN, William Westhuis USA, Henry Westra USA,
Louis H. Wielenga USA, Thomas Wierda USN, Clarence J. Wiersma USA, William T. Willemstyn USA, Wallace C. Winans USA, Alfred Wissink USA, Dick Wissink USN,
Harvey Wissink USA, Lawrence Wissink AAF, Louis S. Wynia USA, Martin Wynia USA, Joe Wynja USN, Lloyd Yates USN, Wesley Yates USN, August Ykema AAC, Bernard Ykema USA,
George Feekes USA, Lawrence Ykema USA, Tony Ykema AAC, Marion Zevenbergen USA, Gerrit Zomermaand USA, John Zomermaand USA, Eugene Helwig USN,
Roy Kelley USMC
Peacetime
Raymond Moeller USA
Wall 3, side 2: Korean War 1950 - 1953
Served - 1,789,000
Killed in Action - 36,574
Wounded in Action - 103,284
Korean War
Truman D. Bartels USN, Donald Bernink USA, Eugene J. Beernink USA, Richard Berkenpas Jr. USA, Harold J. Boer USA, Norman G. Bonnema USN, Elmer P. Bonnema USA,
Marvin A. Boone USN, Vernon E. Boone USA, Henry J. Brinks USA, Donald W. Broek USA, Byron R. Bruinsma USA, Earle Wayne Bruinsma USMC, Alvin L. Brunsting USA,
John Buyert USA, Matthew Buyert USA, Christopher C. Claye USAF, Nelson Cleveringa USA, Tunis W. Cleveringa USA, William DeBondt USA, Conard DeBoom USA,
Richard L. DeBoom USA, Harold J. DeGroot USA, James L. DenHerder USA, Daniel DeRuyter USN, Irwin D. DeVos USA, Kenneth W. DeVos USA, Alfred DeVries USA,
Jacob Dibbet Jr. USA, Walter Disch USAF, Edwin D. Dokter USA, Gerrit "Gary" Dokter USA, Henry J. Dokter USA, Gerald N. Dolieslager USA, Junior Fred Dooyema USA,
Harvard Dorhout USN, John G. Draayer USA, Joe Dragstra USA, Chester W. Faber USAF, Arnold J. Franken USA, Irwin E. Franken USA, Owen J. Gesink USAF,
Clarence Goemaat USA, Herman A. Gradert USA, Lawrence Groen USA, Henry Haak USA, Bruce C. Hagen Sr. USA, Howard J. Hall USAF, Morris Harrison USMC,
Donald L. Harskamp USA, John L. Harskamp USA, Robert Hellenga, Bert Holtrop USA, Alfred Hoogland, Dick Hoogland USA, Tony Hooyer USA, Elmer L. Hopper USA,
Kenneth Hulstein USMC, Rodney Hulstein USA, Wayne E. Juffer USMC, Harold Kaemick USA, Thomas Kiernan MD ANG, Donald G. Koel USA, Duane Koele USA,
James J. Koldenhoven USA, Lane V. Kooi USA, William D. Kooi USA, Arend Kraayenbrink USA, Harry Kraayenbrink USA, Stanton E. Kroon USA, Gerald H. Kruger USA,
Gerrit J. Kruid USA, Harold Kuiken USA, Arnold L. Kwikkel USN, Kenneth R. Kwikkel USN, Gary "Garret" J. Lihudis USAF, Roger Lubbers USN, Jacob C. Mantel USA,
George Meendering USA, John Meendering Jr. USA, Aaldert "Al" Mennega USA, Rudolph Meyer USA, Charles Miedema USA, Harold Moeller USA, Lowell G. Moeller USA,
Verlyn Dean Moeller USA, Paul L. Moerman USA, John M. Mol USMC, Peter Mol USA, Eugene M. Moss USA, James Moss USA, Arvin Wayne Mouw, Orvin Mouw USAF,
Ronald J. Mouw USA, Kenneth Muilenburg USN, Theron Mulder USA, Bernard E. Nibbelink USA, Roger Oliver USA, John Plantage USA, William John Plantage USA,
Earl C. Potter USMC, Ralph Punt USA, Wilmer G. Rensink USA, William Roghair USA, Herbert Roos USA, William M. Rosenboom USA, Leonard Roskam USA,
Marion W. Rozeboom USA, Howard H. Sandbulte USA, Milton W. Sandbulte USA, Conn "Cornie" Schiebout USN, Marvin J. Schoep USA, Peter G. Schouten USA,
Robert J. Schouten USA, Arvin J. Schuiteman USA, Herlan Schut USA, Raymond Sneller USMC, Burton H. Snieder USA, Harvey C. Steinborn ARNG, Stanley Sybesma USA,
George E. Tamminga USN, Lester G. Tegrotenhuis USA, Gerald S. TerHaar USA, Bernard James VandeBerg USA, Lowell D. VandeBerg USA, Charles A. VandeKamp USMC,
Severt C. VanderEsch USA, Basil H. VanderHelm USA, Clarence VanderStoep USA, Dick J. VanderStoep USA, William L. VanderWerf USAF, Stanley W. VanDokkumburg USA,
Richard VanDonge USA, Louis Y. VanDyke USA, Delbert M. VanMaanen USA, Donald VanRavenswaay USN, John VanRavenswaay USN, Ralph VanRavenswaay USN,
Richard VanRavenswaay USN, Richard VanRegenmorter USA, Lloyd J. VanRoekel USA, Norman G. VanSteenwyk USA, Cornellius W. VanVelzen USA, John VanVoorst USA
Wall 4, side 1: Vietnam War 1964 - 1975
Served - 3,403,000
Killed in Action - 58,272
Wounded in Action - 303,644
Korean War
Duane VanWyhe USA, Elmer VanWyk USA, Willard J, Veenkamp USA, Harvey L. Velgersdyk USA, Donald Vermeer USAF, Richard A. Vermeer USA, Verlyn D. Vermeer USA,
Wilbur H. Vermeer USMC, Gerrit Vonk USA, Peter Vonk USA, Donald W. Voortman USA, Gerald J. Vreeman USA, Bernard Wierda USA, Stanley M. Wiersma USA, Carroll E. Winterfeld USA, Merlyn A. Winterfeld USA, John Wynia USA, Melvin J. Wynia USA, Norman Ykema USA, Herbert G. Zeutenhorst USA, Arthur F. Zevenbergen USA,
William J. Kleene USA, Peter A. Bartels USA
Peacetime
Wilmer Altena ARNG, Thurlow Beimers USA, Dick G. Bleyenberg USN, Rodney B. Bolkema USA, Edwin L. Boote USA, Abe Bos USA, Herman Brenneman USA, Delbert Broek ANG,
David L. Bruinsma USA, Randolph D. Bruinsma USA, Robert J. Bruinsma USA, Sam L. Bruinsma USMC, Stanley G. Bruinsma USA, Arthur Buyert USA, John W. Cleveringa USA,
Everett DeBondt USA, Donald D. DeGooyer USA, Rodney DeKruyf USA, Garold DenHerder ARNG, Roger A. DenHerder USA, Cornie "Jack" DeVos USA, Avan Eugene DeVries USA,
Bernard A. DeWit USA, Harlan E. Doorenbos USN, Nelton "Bud" J. Doornink USA, Arnold Dorhout USMC, Lee Erickson USN, Norman J. Gaines USA, Melvin H. Gesink USN,
Gerrit S. Hulstein USA, Wilbur H. Hulstein USA, Wilmer Hulstein ANG, Arnold Koekkoek USA, Elmer J. Kooi ARNG, Peter B. Kooi USA, Dick Kraayenbrink USA, Stanley Kroese USA,
Herb Kuyper ARNG, Kenneth F. Lubbers USA, Daryl Moeller USA, Neal Moss ANG, John Mulder Jr. USAF, Leonard Nyhof USA, Frank Pollema USN, Marvin W. Prins ANG,
Darrel H. Ramhorst USAF, Darrell Rensink ARNG, Bill Riphagen USA, Gary Riphagen ANG, Darrell Roetman USA, Arend J. Sandbulte USA, Dennis Schenk USMC,
Peter L. Schouten USN, Vel Shicks USA, Delbert Swets USA, Cleo Teslaa ARNG, Gary Testroete ANG, Egbert VanBeek USA, Erwin VanBeek ARNG, Lowell VandeBerg USA,
Jerace VandeGriend USA, Mike VandenBosch USAR, David J. VanderBerg USA, Donald G. VanderSchaaf USA, Harold VanderWeide USA, Kenneth VanderWeide USA
Wall 4, side 2: Vietnam War Sioux Center - KIA
Arlin D. Franken ·
Randall K. Schutt ·
Robert A. VanBallegooyen
Peacetime
Arnold R. VandeVegte USA, Herman J. VanDonge USMC, Donald VanEgdom USA, Gerrit VanEngelenhoven USA, Perry VanGorp USA, John B. VanMiddendorp ANG,
Glen VanMuyden USA, Arlin D. VanRoekel USA, John H. VanWyk USA, Arnold G. VerHoef USA, Robert J. Vermeer USA, Bernard D. Versteeg USA, Ronald D. Voorderman USA,
John C. Vreugdenhil ANG, John G. Westra USA, Gerald E. Wiekamp ARNG, Don E. Winterfeld USA, Marvin Gerald Wissink USA, Syne Wynia USA, Delmar L. Smit USA,
Robert L. Harskamp USN, Alvin D. Harmelink USA, Leroy A. Kleene USA, Louis R. Tamminga USA, Jason D. VanderHeiden USAF, Peter Vermulm ARNG
Vietnam War
Michael R. Achterhof USA, Don Altena USA, Eugene "Oots" Altena USA, Gilbert Anker USA, Larry D. Armstrong USAF, Arthur L. Attema USN, Roger B. Bahrenfuss USAF,
Carl Baker USAF, Herlon J. Baker USN, Larry D. Baker USAF, Dennis Bandstra USAR, David A. Bauder USN, William J. Beimers Jr. USA, Eldon Berkenpas USA, Lloyd W. Bierma USA,
Gerrit Bleeker USA, William Bleeker USN, Dick Bleyenberg Jr. USA, Allen L. Bloemendaal USN, Dale A. Boerma USA, James Boeyink USN, Merle Bonnema USN, Norman Bonnema USN,
Adrie "Dutch" Born USN, Fred Brandes Jr. ANG, Howard Brandes USA, David L. Breckenfelder USN, Robert A. Broek USA, James Brommer USA, Leslie J. Brommer USN,
Francis O. Brooke USA, Edwin D. Brummel USN, Charles E. Brunsting USN, Arlin J. Buyert USN, John J. Buyert USA, Dennis Calkhoven ARNG, John P. Calsbeek ARNG,
Richard "Rick" Cameron USAF, Brian Carr USA, Harlan K. Cleveringa USA, Andy Dalle USA, James R. Dean USN, Gerald D. DeBey USA, Irwin E. DeBoer USN, Kenneth W. DeBoer USA,
Owen J. DeBoer USA, Richard L. DeBoer USN, Teunis "Tom" A. DeBondt USMC, Norman J. DeBoom USAF, Stanley DeBoom ANG, John P. DeGroot USAF, Larry DeGroot USA,
Theodore M. DeHoogh USN, Alfred B. DeJong ANG, Gerald DeJong, Peter H. Dekkers ARNG, Dennis D. DeKruyf USA, Eugene M. DenHerder USA, Ronald DenHerder ANG,
W. Dale DenHerder USA, Carroll E. DeNooy USAF, Mark DeRuyter USAF, Glenn H. DeStigter USA, Harlan W. DeStigter USA, Roger E. DeStigter USA, Ronald DeStigter USA,
Thane DeStigter USN, Vincent DeStigter USN, Harold DeVos USA, Gordon DeWeerd USA, Garry DeYoung Jr. USA, Ron C. Dieck USAF, Donald E. Dixon USAF,
Corwin P. Dolieslager USA, Donald Dorhout USA, Kenneth Dorhout USN, Lester J. Dorhout USN, Marlin Dorhout USA, Warren Dorhout USN, Wendell Dorhout USA,
Ned Douma USAF, Gary Draayer ARNG, Gerald L. Droog USA, Owen Dykshorn USA, Wayne Dykshorn USN, Arlan Dykstra USAF, David Eekhoff USA, Kenneth L. Ehrp USA,
Cornelius Eshuis USN, Roger Evans USA, Howard D. Faber USAF, Bernard Fedders USA, Gary L. Fedders USAF, Robert Fedders USAF, Stanley Feekes ARNG
Wall 5, side 1: Bay of Pigs - Cuba 1961
US Backed Brigade of 2,506 Soldiers.
Casualties - 118 (5 American)
POW - 1,100+
Operation Urgent Fury Grenada 1983
Served - 7,900+
Killed in Action - 19
Wounded in Action - 116
Operation Just Cause Panama 1989 - 1990
Served - 2,000
Killed in Action - 23
Vietnam War
Judy Schiebout Fisher, Jerald Fluit USA, Arlin D. Franken USA, Daniel J. Franken USN, Dick Frank Jr. USA, John Franken ANG, Sylvan E. Gerritsma USA,
Benjamin H. Gesink USA, David Gesink USA, Ron Groeneweg ARNG, Bruce T. Groff DVM USA, Roger Haug USMC, Harvard Haverhals USN, Michael G. Haverhals ARNG,
Johan H. Hegeman USA, Alan Heidecker USA, Bob Helwig USN, Michael H. Hilleman USA, Daryl L. Holtrop USAF, Bruce Hooyer USA, Roger J. Hotalen USA, Virgil Houtkooper USA,
Don Huisman USMC, Roland J. Hulstein USA, Robert Huyser ANG, Bennis J. Jans USA, Merlyn V. Johnson USA, Gerald W. Juffer USA, Daryl Kleinhesselink USA,
Arlyn Kleinwolterink USAF, John Koerselman USN, Daniel W. Kooiker ANG, Larry Koopmans USA, Robert F. Koopmans USMC, Bernard Koops Jr. USA, Henrich L. Kraayenbrink USAF,
Allan Kramer USA, Henry L. Kroon ANG, John A. Kruid USA, Leroy G. Kruid USAF, Marvin H. Kruid USA, David P. Kruse USA, Ralph D. Lammers II USA, John Langstraat USA,
David A. Lein USN, Louis A. Louwerse USA, John S. Maatman USA, Richard E. Magnuson USAF, Terry McGilvra USA, Harry Allen Meendering USA, Larry J. Meyer USA,
Martin J. Moeller USA, Preston Moerman ARNG, Roger Moerman USAF, Clifford J. Mol USN, Reid Mosher USAF, Glen Moss USAF, Gregory A. Mouw USA, Ken Mouw USAF,
Phillip Mouw USA, Robert L. Mouw USAF, Ronald G. Mouw USA, Marvin Mulder USA, Terry L. Nibbelink USAF, Loren Olson USA, Stanley M. Oordt USA, Ronald Oostra USA,
Tom Overman USAF, Larry Peterson USA, Dennis E. Pieper USA, Jerry Plasier USA, Warren L. Post USA, Michael Bruce Prince, Richard Prince Jr. USA, Leslie Punt ANG,
Hans Rodenburgh USN, Ronald Roskam USA, Glenn A. Rozeboom USAF, Gerus Rubingh USAF, Wilfert Gene Rus USA, Rick Ryan USN, Daniel J. Sandbulte USA,
Leon Schimmel USA, Arnold W. Schoellerman USA, Robert L. Schuiteman USA, Randall K. Schutt USA, Marlow Scheffer USA, Albert Schelling USA, Harold Schelling USA,
James E. Smith USA, Perry Sneller USA, Stan Sneller USN, Dennis J. Spitler USA, Carl S. Sybesma USA, Jon A. Sybesma USMC, Leon M. Tegrotenhuis, Loran K. Tegrotenhuis USA,
Donald G. Tennapel USAF, Judson R. Tepaske USN, Leon Terpstra, Lewis B. Terpstra USA, Myron D. Toering USAF, Robert A. VanBallegooyen USA, Klaas F. VanBeek USA,
Wilmer J. VandeBerg USA, William "Bill" VandeHoef USN, Harlan VandeHoef USA, Dennis W. VandenBerg USN, Ronald VandenBerg USN, Marlin VandenBosch USA,
Herm VandenHul USAF, Eldon VanderBerg USA, Michael L. VanderPol USA, Delbert VanderSchaaf USA, Jay A. VanderStouwe USA, Harlyn J. VanderVliet USA,
Walt VanderWaal USAF, Gene VanderWeide USA, Larry L. VanderWeide USMC, Hugh VanderWilt ANG, Ken VanderZiel ARNG, Bennie J. VanderZwaag USAF, Russell D. VandeVegte USA,
Conrad VandeZandschulp USMC, Marvin D. VandeZandSchulp USA, Floyd A. VanEngen USN, Quentin VanEssen USAR, Jeroy H. VanMiddendorp, Larry Larue VanMuyden USA,
Donald L. VanOtterloo USA, Arthur D. VanRavenhorst Jr. USA, Arlen VanRavenswaay USA, Conrad VanRoekel USA, Larry L. VanRoekel USAF, Lyle L. VanRoekel USA
Wall 5, side 2: Operations Desert Shield / Desert Storm Kuwait 1991
Served - 2,225,000
Killed in Action - 147
Wounded in Action - 467
Vietnam War
Ned VanSteenwyk USA, Paul VanSteenwyk USA, Conrad VanVoorst USAF, Don VanVoorst USA, Gary G. VanVoorst USMC, Gerald VanVoorst USA, Harlan L. VanVoorst USA,
Henry A. VanVoorst USMC, Kenneth J. VanVoorst USN, Myron "Mike" VanVoorst USN, Wayne VanVoorst USA, Glenn A. VanWyhe USA, Corneil I. Verduin USA,
Dale Verduin USA, James Verduin USA, Bruce A. Verhoef USAF, Daniel J. Verhoef USA, Philip Vermeer ARNG, Bruce H. Vernon USAF, Dennis G. Visser USA, Larry J. Visser USA,
Marlyn T. Visser USA, Stanton L. Visser USA, James A. Vos USA, Dennis Walstra USAR, William G. Wassink USA, Duane F. Winterfeld USA, Terry J. Winterfeld USA,
Alvin Wissink USA, Sherman Wissink USA, Jim Wolfswinkel ANG, John K. Wolfswinkel ANG, Arthur J. Zeilenga USA, Marlo D. Zeutenhorst USA, Marlyn G. Zeutenhorst USAF,
Lyle J. Klein ARNG, Dennis L. Zomermaand USAF, Edwin H. Zomermaand USA, Peter L. Zomermaand USAF, Henry W. Langstraat USA,
Norm Te Slaa USA, Gerald J. Kleene USA, Anthony "Teak" Van Ravenswaay ARNG, Robert Van Ruler ANG, Robert D. Kleene USA
Peacetime
Merrill C. Bohnenkamp Jr. USMC, Reginald C. Boot USA, Dale E. Brands USA, David L. Bruinsma ARNG, Lisa Bruinsma Timmer ARNG, Michael T. Franken USN, Christina Goemaat USA,
Randal B. Harlow USAF/ANG, Steven E. Harlow ARNG, David J. Horstman ARNG, Dedra A. Leffring USAF, Todd J.D. Leffring USAF, Renae Wierda Macy USAF, Jeff Matheis ARNG,
Richard P. McManimon USA, Douglas H. Moret USN, Leo Nyhof ARNG, Lyle Nyhof ARNG/ANG, Jim Oliver ARNG, Dean Reichert ARNG, Derek Schenk USA, Garry Schenk USMC,
Teresa Schenk USA, Victor D. Schiebout ARNG, Douglas G. VanBeek ARNG, Tim B. VanDonge USMC, Tim VanEngelenhoven USN, Alvin VanRavenswaay USAF,
Evan VanRegenmorter USMC, Joe VanSchouwen ARNG, Jeffrey A. Visser USAF, Donald Walburg ARNG, Rick L. Wierda USAF, Terry Wiersma USAF, Randy S. Wiese USA
Panama Conflict
Larry Rensink USA
Wall 6, side 1: War On Terror 2001 -
Terrorism knows no borders, it seldom has a face. We will continue to fight terror, to protect our freedom and this place. Sioux Center - KIA
William "B Jay" Leusink
Gulf War/Post Gulf War
Rob Baker USMC, Danny Barnes USA, Dan Bruinsma USAF, Jason Bruinsma USN, Nathan L. Brunsting USA, Mark A. Cleveringa ARNG, Susan Vermeer Cox USAF,
Brian Damstra USN, Emily VanVoorst Davis ARNG, Teunis "Tom" G. DeBondt USMC, Vincent DeGroot ANG, Scott E. Driesen USA, Dan Hodgson USAF, Shawn M. Huisman USMC,
Karlowe Kroon USAF, Holly Menke Salsman USAF, Scott Mulder USAF, Robin Huygens Ortega USAF, Alex Peat USAF, Michael R. Popovich USAF, Chad M. Robertson USN,
David Samani USAF, Gary L. Schaap USAF, Garry Schenk USA, Keith D. Stahl ARNG, Troy D. Tennapel USAF, Lyle VanderSchaaf USAF, Scott VanVoorst USAF, Y. Brad VanVoorst USMC,
Brandy L. Borchers ANG, Jeris Visscher ANG, Justin Zevenbergen USA, Ryan Moret USN
Global War On Terror
Michael Apol USAF, Mick Argo ARNG, Anousinh Richard Baccam ARNG, Matthew L. Behrens ARNG, Richard Bleeker USMC, Allen L. Bloemendaal ARNG/USA, Benjamin T. Bloemendaal ANG,
Cory A. Bloemendaal ARNG, Tyler Bohnenkamp USMC, Sean Brons USMC, Christen Brouwer Elms USAF, James Bruinsma USMC, Blake Bruns USAF, Teri Byl USAF,
Michael E. DeBoer USA, Davis M. DeJong ANG, Dustin A. DeJong ARNG, Jeremy Eric DeWit ANG, Dan Doornink USN, Aaron Dreise USA, Bradley Emerson USN, Brian L. Erickson USN,
Michael T. Franken USN, Curtis J. Hayes USCG, Keith Hoekstra USMC, Dustin Horstman USA, Alexander Hurtado USMC, Calvin Hurtado USMC, Diego Hurtado USMC, Jeffrey A. Husa ANG, Brett A. Huyser USAF, Christopher J. Huyser ANG, Matthew Huyser ANG, Kenzie Huyser Buhl ANG, Tyler L. Jacobsma USMC, Meggan Jacobsma Purkett USAF,
Adam Koopman ARNG, Jaime Koopman ARNG, Jeremy D. Kruid USMC, Jonathan W. Leffring ANG, William "B Jay" Leusink USMC, Benjamin Leusink ARNG, Landon Nohava USA,
Kevin Paultz USA, Daniel J. Peat USN, Serina Peterson USAF, Mitchell F. Phomphakdy USMC, Ned E. Popovich USA, Wade O. Popovich USA, Trevor Pritchard USAF, Austin Reichle USA,
Nathaniel J. Renes USAF, Bradley Ribbens USAF, Colten Rozeboom USA, Matthew Sandbulte USMC, Jessica Sneller ARNG, Matthew Sneller USA, Jeremy Spaans USMC, Eric Swets USN,
Andrew TerHaar ANG, Anthony TerHaar USA, Daniel TerHaar USAF, Jonathan TerHaar USAF, Apolonio "Polo" Topete USMC, Jessica Tubergen ARNG, Jade VandeKamp USMC
Wall 6, side 2:
freedom is not free
Global War On Terror
Nicholas VandeKieft ARNG, Wade VandenBurg ARNG, Joshua VanderSchaaf USN, Lloyd VanderSchaaf USN, Brent A. VandMiddendorp ARNG, Trevor VanMiddendorp ARNG,
Daniel VanSchouwen USA, David VanSchouwen ANG, Jacob VanSchouwen USA, Joshua VanSchouwen USA, Cory L. VanSloten ARNG, Tygue Wierda USA, Kevin Wynia ARNG,
Bruce K. VanderWilt USAF, Jordan A. Carlson ARNG, Paul De Stigter USAF, Matthew L. Punt ARNG
Erected 2013.
Topics. This memorial is listed in this topic list: Military.
Location. 43° 4.593′ N, 96° 10.508′ W. Marker is in Sioux Center, Iowa, in Sioux County. Memorial is on S Main Ave, 0.1 miles north of 2nd St SW, on the right when traveling north. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 148 S Main Ave, Sioux Center IA 51250, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Credits. This page was last revised on February 22, 2024. It was originally submitted on June 18, 2018, by Ruth VanSteenwyk of Aberdeen, South Dakota. This page has been viewed 249 times since then and 70 times this year. Photos:1, 2, 3. submitted on June 18, 2018, by Ruth VanSteenwyk of Aberdeen, South Dakota. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25. submitted on February 22, 2024. • Bill Pfingsten was the editor who published this page.