Korea - Vietnam Memorial ~ Macon, MO
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YoSam.
N 39° 44.516 W 092° 28.353
15S E 545192 N 4399247
This courthouse lawn has specific memorials for the two world wars, a new non-specific memorial for future losses, and this for the two lost wars.
Waymark Code: WM67GW
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 04/18/2009
Views: 3
County of Memorial: Macon County.
Location of Memorial: Rollins St. & Washington St., courthouse lawn, Macon.
Monument Text:
In Remembrance of Those Who Paid the Supreme
Sacrifice in Service To Our Country
KOREA
June 1950 - January 1955
Junior Coram
22 July 1950
Wallace Evans Jr.
29 July 1950
John R. McDuffee
11 Aug. 1950
Harold W. Harris
5 Sept. 1950
Johnny C. Graham
2 Dec. 1950
Billy S. Ward
12 Aug. 1952
Bobbie C. Franks
16 June 1954
Roy Dean Richardson
19 June 1954
VIETNAM
December 1961 - May 1975
Merle Deanne Turner
4 Sept. 1967
Robert Allen Anspach
11 Sept. 1967
Bobby Joe Winkler
2 Jan. 1968
Noble Thomas Head
27 Oct. 1968
Robert Bruce Maddox
11 Feb. 1969
Thomas John Cross
1 Jan. 1970
Edward Lee Reynolds
18 Sept. 1970
Roger Lee Christensen
5 Dec. 1971
Charles Robert Hearrold
2 Feb. 1973This county is very Southern in its feelings. A statue of Confederate General Sterling Price is just to the west of here. And each small town around here they have a confederate statue in their cemetery.
Type of Memorial: Multi-War Memorial
Wars mentioned (Multi-war only):
Korea & Vietnam
In Honor Of: Those who paid the Supreme Sacrifice
Marker Text:
see above
Date of dedication: May 1985
Who Put it Here?: The People of Macon County
Description of Memorial:
A simple stone rising from a proper bed of red lava rock, flanked proper by two neatly trimmed hedges. A small white cross fronts the memorial from which rises an American flag. The upper portion of the stone are embossed the five seals of the services of this country topped with a shadowed bronze cross.
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