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Honoring Those Who Served A Veterans Story on Veterans Day Grundy County Veterans Assistance Commission fosters collaboration among veteran service organizations Abraham Lincoln Cemetery
Maria Acevedo
Charles Akin
Edward R. Aldrich
Leroy E. Aldrich
Nickalous N. Aldrich
Jon Allen
Kenneth Allen
Lester Allen
Richard J. Allen
Morris, IL Air Force H 1974-1979, 1982-1985
Morris, IL Army H 1963-1969
Morris, IL Army H 1968-1971
Aurora, IL Navy H 1943-1946 Died Sept. 29, 2011
Amarillo, TX MarinesH 2004 Died Aug. 27, 2004
South Wilmington, IL Army H 1969-1971
Coal City, IL Army H 1952
South Wilmington, IL Navy H 1943-1946
Livingston, CA Navy H1965-1971
Bryanna Andersen
Brooklyn Baudino Anderson
Ariel Anderson
Carl E. Anderson
Dan Anderson
Daniel Anderson
Glen Anderson
Kevin Anderson
Paul A. Anderson
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Minooka, IL Army H 2007-present
Ralph Anderson
Morris, IL Army H 2016-present
Morris, IL Army H 1942-1945 Died Nov. 26, 2008
Fort Dodge, IA Army Air Corp. H 1941-45 Died Oct. 21, 2001
Coal City, IL Army 1962-1963
Dwight, IL Marines H 2005-2010
Lisbon, IL Army H 1941-1945
Morris, IL Navy H 1985-1989
Morris, IL Army H 1942-1945 Died June 8, 2011
Rolf Anderson
William R. Anderson
Ronald Andrae
Raymond R. Andreae
Norman H. Appleton
Ken Arneson
Robert L. Arnsdorff
Lloyd Arthur
Seneca, IL Army H 1943-1945
Lisbon, IL Army H 1953-1955
Wilmington, IL Navy H 1974-1995
Barrington, IL Navy H 1955-1959 Died Oct. 1, 2010
Morris, IL Army H 1954-1956
Coal City, IL Marines H 1953-1956 Died May 29, 2011
Morris, IL Navy H 1946-1948
Morris, IL Air Force H 1951-1955
Verona, IL Navy H 1945-1946 Died April 16, 2007
Robert Ashbaugh
Alfred Austino
Kirk Babcock
Lowell Babcock
Max M. Babcock
Verne E. Babcock
Elwyn Baker
Aloysius Ballun
Marshall L. Bardell
Verona, IL Navy H 1965-1970 Deceased
Ransom, IL Army H 1950-1952
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By JON RINGER Special to the Morris Herald-News
It was a red and black plaid jacket. And it had a history in my family. My dad bought it when he returned from the war in 1945. He wore it for a long time. After that, he hung it in the closet by the back door.
OCS Prep was incredibly cool. 48 of us. All college grads with 12 masters and one Phd from Oxford of all places. Athletes, scholars, and really great people. Mostly classroom stuff and weekends at Norman to hang around with the Sooners.
My mom decided it was good for yard work in the autumn or a quick run to the store. It was far too big for her, but she rolled up the sleeves and wore it for several more years.
At the end, we had a choice: Continue with Officers School or drop out and take the next assignment. 24 went to OCS and 24 of us dropped. Of the latter, one went to Korea and 23 went to Vietnam. We had built great friendships in the 10 weeks together. Possibly (excluding me) the very best of American youth. Lean, mean, smart, witty, and ready for whatever was next. But…it was still not my “real life”. I took a 22-hour plane ride to Bien Hoa Airbase in the Republic of Vietnam.
When I came home after my sophomore year at college, she was about to give it to Goodwill. I asked if I could have it and wore it almost everyday for two more years at school. It became my identity, the “lumberjack jacket”, wheat jeans and penny loafers. Since the lady at the Draft Board had a feud with my family (and made it a project to draft me), I got my draft notice the very day I graduated. “No more student deferment. You are mine, chump”. The government gave me 35 days to get my affairs in order. Since I was only having one affair, I kissed her goodbye and went to New York for a month. One last 30-day party. It was a good idea to be careful in New York in the late 1960’s. We weren’t. When I got home, I put on my penny loafers, wheat jeans and plaid jacket and got on the Greyhound bus to get inducted in Des Moines. Raised my hand and took that step forward. They put us on a puddle jumper. Flew us from Des Moines to Omaha, Omaha to Denver, Denver to Salt Lake City, Salt Lake to Seattle-Tacoma. Then we bussed to Fort Lewis. The next morning they gave us two uniforms and a box. “Gentlemen, put your civilian clothing into the box. Everything. Write your home address on the box”. I also put in a note to my mother: Keep this stuff in one place. I’ll need it in two years. My plan was simple. The Army would not change me. I’d do those two years (like the movie gangsters used to say) “standin’ on my head”. When I got out, I’d put on those same clothes, wipe my memory clean, and go back to life. For a long time, it was a pretty good plan. Basic Training was with a bunch of guys from Minnesota…many from the Boundary Waters who had never “been to the big city or seen the elephant” so to speak. Naïve was too generous of a word. Nice guys, but I built few relationships. Just 9 weeks of small talk and transformation from a college punk into a “pretty good” (not great, but OK) soldier. Then it was off to Oklahoma and Officers Preparatory training. “I told them, I ain’t no officer” but they convinced me to try.
Artillery at a remote firebase. 10 to 12 hours of us in the section. We worked 8 hours on and 8 hours off (plus overtime) around the clock calculating fire data. Lived in an underground bunker with rats as big as dogs. Never left the tiny fort unless you went on R&R for a week, went home after a year, or…or…were on the wrong end of a mortar round. We ate a lot of C Rations and Tropical Hershey Bars, stayed dirty for long stretches, and counted the days. But those were the most unselfish guys I ever knew. No one had a personal agenda when it came to the war. We found things to laugh about, learned about each other’s civilian lives and truly celebrated when someone’s year was up…ushering them to a chopper for the goodbye ceremony.
for reclassification. I pretended to have handled everything with ease. She pretended to be happy I wasn’t dead. Then I packed some clothes, put on the red and black plaid jacket and headed for the left coast to see an Officer’s Prep buddy. We had a couple months. From Spokane to Tahoe to Frisco and L.A. we had a trip that put bookends on the Army adventure. New York before and Lala Land after. I came back to the Midwest and took a job. 40 years of real life. 40 years of not talking much about it because that war had not been a popular subject at first or a crisp memory later. But that was about to change. I found my Vietnam guys by accident. They had gone to Vegas in 2006 for a reunion. When they called a number of a guy with my name in Iowa, the kid said, “That was my dad. He’s dead.” So we had another Vegas reunion. I got the prize for having come the farthest…back from the grave. But, more importantly, it was emotional. I found out why I respected them so much in those days. They were the same funny, unselfish people who would still be my friends if we were cast together again. They were from all over the country, but we had an incredible bond and the commonality of combat.
I saw how genuine they were in conversation, how absolutely confident and cool they were during combat, and how much we all cared for each other. The guys at Officers Prep had been great friends. But my boys in Vietnam were brothers.
Somewhere along the way I lost the lumberjack jacket. Literally and figuratively. I realized that I could no more have held my breath for two years than I could have not changed. Their perspective on doing the job, their ability to focus on the mission under duress, and their talent for communication, patience and being concerned about each other was remarkable. Even I had gathered some of their traits and used them without knowing it.
I did my 365, came home and kept in contact with a few for awhile. I still had 5 months at Fort Hood in Texas and ran into some guys down there I knew; guys who had gone on to Officers School and were now just being sent to Vietnam. I felt I had made the right decision.
November 11 is a very special day for me. It’s the day I held my wife’s hand as our daughter was born. And it’s the reason I tear up a bit during a Medal of Honor presentation or a fly over…or just a memory of their bravery and humor during dire times.
When September 16th arrived, the guy across the hall loudly played the Young Rascals singing “It’s a Beautiful Morning”. I dressed in my penny loafers, wheat jeans and lumberjack jacket and cleared post. At the last stoplight before leaving Fort Hood, a Corvette convertible pulled up beside me. It was a Captain I knew through another officer friend. “When you gettin’ out of this Army, trooper,” he asked. I replied, “When this light changes, I’ll get amnesia about these last 2 years.” The light turned green, he saluted me and I drove off to be the guy I was 730 days ago. I went home and visited the Draft Board Lady
And just one more thing…I love long-term relationships. I just returned from a weekend with my college fraternity guys who were there when I turned into me. My golf friends, with whom I have played 2000 rounds of golf. High school buddies, old work friends and the two pretty girls who are my family. I love my eclectic comrades with whom I shared a war. I am lucky to have them all. May God Bless all who interrupted and risked their lives throughout our 245-year history. May God Bless the guys from A Battery.
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Arthur Ronald Barker
Robert Barkley
Andy Barla
Poplar Bluff, MO Army H 1965-1968
Morris, IL Army H 1966-1968 Died Aug. 29, 2011
Seneca, IL Navy H 1942-1945 Died 1994
H. Michael Bates
Arvin Battersby
Carl T. Bauter
Morris, IL Army H 1966-1968
Morris, IL Army H 1968-1970
Braidwood, IL Army H 1965 – 1967 Died June 24, 2019
Brian Barla
Jerry Barla
Louis Barla
Rob Barla
Edward D. Basham
Matthew D. Basham
Seneca, IL Navy H 1985-1989
Seneca, IL Navy H 1956-1959
Cherokee Village, AR Marines H 1956-1959
Marseilles, IL Navy H 1992-1996
Braidwood, IL Army H 1952-1954
Coal City, IL Navy H 2005-2009
Jeff Beck
Todd Beck
Richard Becker
Dalton R. Bednarik
Edward R. Bednarik
Gerald Bednarik
Morris, IL Army H 1972-1975
Morris, IL Navy H 2009-2015
Minooka, IL Army H 1963-1966 Died July 5, 2016
Morris, IL Navy H 1942-1944 Died July 28, 1964
Morris, IL Navy H 1967-1971
Morris, IL Navy H 1943-1946
Ronald K. Belt
Morris, IL Navy H 1944-1946 Died March 21, 1970
Harry Behrens
Donald Bekker
Gregory L. Bell
Harold Bell
Kenneth Bell
Robert Bell
Ronald L. Bell
Gerald Belt
Morris, IL Army Air BorneH1943-45 Died 2002
Morris, IL Marines H WWII & Korea Died Dec. 11, 2008
Morris, IL Marines H 1988-1992 Desert Storm
Morris, IL Army H 1951-1954
Morris, IL Marines H 1953-1956
Morris, IL Army H 1951-1953 Died Aug. 4, 1972
Morris, IL Marines H 1952-1953
Morris, IL Army H 1957-1959
Charles L. Benbrooks
Earl Benge
George S. Benger
Butch Benson
Clarence Benson
Earl Benson
Ed Benson
George Keith Benson II
Ronald Benson
So. Wilmington, IL Army H 1956-1957
Coal City, IL Marines H 1944-1946 Died Dec. 23, 2009
Kissimmee, FL Air Force H 1966-1970
Morris, IL Army H 1968-1970
Newark, IL Army H WWII Died 1985
Morris, IL Navy H 1945-1946 Died Oct. 29, 2002
Newark, IL Army H 1917-1919 Died Nov. 16, 1971
Coal City, IL Army H 1966-1968 Died Oct. 28, 2008
Mazon, IL Army H 1957-1959
Sven Benson
John Berg
Orland Berg
John Bertot
Dennis Best
George Bexson
Edward Beyer
Joseph A. Bien
Jospeh P. Bien
Newark, IL Army H 1917-1919 Died 1945
Morris, IL Army H 1917-1919 Died June 22, 1978
Minooka, IL Army H 1943-1946
Coal City, IL Army H 1942-1946 Died April 23, 2009
Morris, IL Army H 1970-1972
Gardner, IL Army H 1958-1961
Joliet, IL Army H 1955-1958
Morris, IL Army H 1942-1945 Died July 1, 2000
Green Valley, AZ Army H 1969-1970 Died Feb. 14, 2004
By Allison Selk
case and guide the veteran.
Out of 3,000 registered veterans in Grundy County, the Grundy County Veterans Assistance Commission has at one point helped 1,300 of them. The group continues to assist up to eight new veterans a month.
“We have guys who come into the marine league or legion and ask, ‘What about this?’” said Jeff Alexander of the Marine Corp League of Grundy County Detachment 1372 and Minooka American Legion Post 1188. “I tell them to go see Ken because he can give you the answers you are looking for.”
The GCVAC, led by superintendent Ken Buck and assistant superintendent Sarah Fisher, acts as a hub in the wheel of 10 active veteran service organizations within Grundy County, all geared to assist veterans. These service organizations offer members to serve on the commission board of the GCVAC, which meets monthly to discuss new information that has come down from Veterans Affairs and current needs the groups see with veterans, share fundraisers and activities, and brainstorm ways to better serve veterans in the county. “That’s who I work for,” Buck said. These 10 service organizations are AMVETS Post 53, Chief Shabbona DAV Post 86, Danner-Madsen American Legion Post 663, John Martin Steele VFW Post 6049, La Societe de 40 Hommes et 8 Cheveaux Voiture 1195, Marine Corp League Grundy County Detachment 1372, Mazon American Legion Post 352, Minooka American Legion Post 1188, Morris American Legion Post 294 and St. Juvin VFW Post 1336. Carter Corsello holds the title of GCVAC secretary but also works with various veteran organizations. He said he sees the benefit of a collaboration of the service organizations with the GCVAC when a veteran comes to him and asks for help. He can present information he has learned from being in the commission group to the veteran, and then suggest an appointment with Buck or Fisher, who can open a
Alexander said before he became involved with service organizations, he contacted Fisher, who helped him apply for hearing aids. He now uses that link to the GCVAC to be a delegate for veterans who come to him with questions. “I’m trying to do more for the veteran as far as outreach programs to help the guys in need and do things for the town,” Alexander said. Corsello said if the county did not have a veterans assistance commission, each service organization would need to have a well-trained, designated person to be the liaison, which may not be feasible. “These groups may not have the resources to commit to it or may not have the capability. Roles change within groups, it’s good to have one person designated by the county,” Corsello said. “If someone needs assistance, we can send them to Ken; he has the resources behind him.”
Ken Buck, Superintendent of the Grundy County Veterans Assistance Commission
tions and how to address the issues on a regional or state level and talk to representatives,” Buck said.
chapters can express concerns and in turn, the groups can take issues to Congress to be a voice for the veteran.
Many of these organizations have national chapters, Buck said, so the local
Buck and Fisher can be reached at 815-941-3152.
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Buck said in addition to the commission group being a resource to connect veterans with services, these groups come together to discuss current events in the veteran world and how to be an advocate for the veterans in Grundy County. “We discuss common issues through the VAC or the 10 service organiza-
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‘Taking care of our own’: Veteran employees give back through cemetery work By Allison Selk Of the 30 employees at Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery in Elwood, 22 have served in the military and now give back to other veterans as a career. “The veterans who work here are an asset because they have served, they know what its like to have served and they continue to serve,” said Quincy McCall, director of the cemetery. “Because of their military service, most are very well disciplined, accustomed to challenges, hard workers and the list can go on.” McCall said the 22 employees serve in these positions: director, assistant director, director intern trainee, foreman, administrative officer, program specialist, budget analyst, cemetery representatives, interment work leader, grounds work leader, engineering equipment operators, equipment maintenance worker, gardener, facility maintenance worker and cemetery caretakers. After 11 years in the Army and six deployments, budget analyst Josh Polega applied to the cemetery in order to give back to the veteran community. “I’m able to work with veterans; I understand where they came from, it’s one team, one fight. I can understand their trials and tribulations of what they went through. Only a veteran can understand a veteran,” Polega said. Chris Lowe spent four years in the Marine Corps as a landing support specialist. When he returned home, he visited his best friend who was buried at the cemetery.
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“I wasn’t sure what life would be like after the military,” Lowe said. “I was just talking to my buddy at his grave not sure what to do.”
ilies who come to the funerals or to visit gravesites. Lowe said a man visits a grave almost daily and opens up to.
are taking care of our own veterans and families after death,” Wenner said of the importance of veteran employees at the cemetery. “We have compassion and can assist them better because we are veterans ourselves. One team, one fight.”
Lowe walked into the office on the cemetery grounds and asked if there were any positions open. He began as a caretaker and then made his way up to interment work leader, a job where he helps his staff plan out their day in the field and stresses the importance of grave and grounds management. He said he expects the staff to take care of the graves as if they were family. “Leave a grave as if it was your brother or sister because these are our brothers and sisters in arms,” Lowe said. He also felt his military background allowed him to not only connect with fellow veteran employees, but the fam-
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“He said, ‘Coming out here and talking to you guys helps, you are all veterans and you can relate to what I’m saying,’” Lowe said. Cemetery representative David Wenner spent 25 years in the Army and three years in the reserves before he came to the cemetery two years ago. He escorts families to shelters for services, introduces the memorial squad and assists in the preparation of cases. He said it was important for him to work a job in this capacity so he could honor the veterans in their final resting places as well as be of service to the families. “We were veterans ourselves, now we
McCall said the veterans are assets as employees, “But this is also an opportunity for us to continue to service our brothers and sisters even in death by ensuring that they receive the dignified burial and that they rest in a place of honor because of their unselfish and honorable service to our nation. It’s an honor and a privilege to work at Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery.” Polega agreed. “There’s not a better way to help a veteran, and give back to the greatest generation than at their final resting place.”
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Michael Biros
August Black
Brian Black
Robert “Bob” Blaine
John A. Blake
Warren Blake
William “Bud” Blake Morris, IL Army H 1944-1946 Died Oct. 21, 2006
Morris, IL Calvary Vet Corp.H1918-1919 Died May 26, 1973
Don Born
Ervin Born
Seneca, IL Army Air Force H 1942-44 Died March 4, 1994
Seneca, IL Marines H 1969-1971 Died March 13,1997
Morris, IL Military Intelligence Army H 1941-1945
Morris, IL Navy H 2003-2007
Coal City, IL Army H 1957-1959 Died June 20, 2007
Morris, IL Army Air Corp. H 1946-47 Died Feb. 5, 2002
Morris, IL Army H 1945-1946 Died June 30, 2011
Stephen V. Bliefield
Micheal W. Bogart
Bruce A. Boling
Leon Bonneur
Robert Borgstrom
Bob Born
Brad Born
Verona, IL Air Force H 2008-present
John Born
Joliet, IL Marines H 1973-1977
Ray Born
Mazon, IL Air Force H 1991-present
William Boswell
Morris, IL Army H 1956-1966 Died Oct. 10, 2015
Bernard Bounds
Morris, IL Navy H 1959-1964
Richard Bradley
Richard L. Bradley
Coal City, IL Air Force H 1971-1975
John E. Brady
Coal City, IL Marines H 1943-1946 Died Dec. 15, 2006
LeRoy W. Brady
Coal City, IL Army H 1942-1946 Died June 1, 2009
Leroy Brandt
Coal City, IL Army H 1942-1945 Died March 9, 2010
Coal City, IL Army/Air ForceH1939-45 Died Aug. 13, 1991
Seneca, IL Army, Nat’l Guard H 2011-present
Bloomington, IL Marines H 1965-1967
George Brayton
Charles Brehm
Raymond L. Brenczewski
Raymond P. Brenczewski Joliet, IL Army H WWII Died 2004
Joliet, IL Air Force H 1986-2006
Morris, IL Army H 1974-1975
Coal City, IL Army National Guard H 2006-present
Morris, IL Army H 2006-2008
Morris, IL Army H 1951-1953
Rhode J. Bronk
Robert E. Brooks I
William L. Brooks
John Broucek
George Brown
Robert D. Brown
Morris, IL Navy H 1951-1955
Morris, IL Army H 1952-1954
Joliet, IL Army H 1966-1968
Lonnie Briley
Walter D. Britz
Joe Brochman
Morris, IL Army H 1956-1976 Died Aug. 7, 2009
Joliet, IL Army H 1968-1970 Died April 3, 2005
Stillwater, MN Army H 1954-1956
Morris, IL Army H 1966-1968
Morris, IL Army H 1942-1945 Died Aug. 18, 2009
Coal City, IL Marines H 1973-1977
William L. Blake
Hugh Brennan
Morris, IL Army H 1939-1945 Died March 14, 1963
Morris, IL Army H 1962-1965
Morris, IL Marines H 1943-1946
Northlake, IL Army H 1964-1966 Died March 22, 2014
Coal City, IL Navy H 1943-1946 Died June 11, 2001
Scott Breslar
Andrew R. Brewer
Andrew W. Brian
Donald E. Bright
Gardner, IL Navy Reserves H 1956-1962
Braceville, IL Army H 1954-1956
Morris, IL Army H 1942-1964 Died June 6, 2007
Zephyr Hills, FL Army H 1951-1953
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Nate Buck
Bruce Burkhart
Charles G. Butterfield, Sr. Morris, IL Army H 1946-1947 Died Feb. 25, 2005
Morris, IL Navy H 1944-1946 Died March 19,1996
Coal City, IL Navy H 1943-1946 Died April 23, 2006
Carbon Hill, IL Army H 1967-1969
Gene Burd
Carl B. Burkett
Arthur Burns
Walter Burns
Coal City, IL Air Force H 2016-present
Mazon, IL Army Air Corp. H 1942-46 Air Force H 1946-1979
Toledo, OH Navy H 1945-1949
Francis A. Bunton
John Patrick Bunton
Jeff Alan Burchfield
Jeff Alan Burchfield
Coal City, IL Navy H 1944-1945 Died April 19, 1966
Coal City, IL Marines H 1973-1975
Morris, IL Air Force H 1989-1994
Morris, IL Army H 2001-present
Plano, IL Navy H 1963-1967
William Butterfield
Morris, IL Navy H 1942-1945 Died Jan. 1, 1999
Emil Buberle
Charles L. Bumgardner
Melvin Butler
Morris IL Air ForceH1943-46, 1950-51 Died Sept. 1987
Coal City, IL Army Air Corps, WWII H 1942-1945 Died Jan. 10, 2002
Kenneth E. Bunker
Morris, IL Army H 1941-1945 Died Aug. 24, 1972
James Butz
Morris, IL Air Force H 1943-1945 Died June 15, 2007
Coal City, IL Army WWII H 1942-1945 Died Nov. 12, 2004
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Agnes LaDelle Byers Braceville, IL Navy H 1943-1945 Died 2010
Edward L. Canik
Robert A. Byers
Braceville, IL Marines H 1943-1945 Died 2002
Paul Canik
Jack Cacello
Pete Cacello
Danny Cain
Charles Callahan
South Wilmington, IL Army H 1970-1971
South Wilmington, IL Army H 1941-1945
Morris, IL Air Force H 1942-1945 Died Dec. 11, 1968
Morris, IL Air Force H 1956-1959 Died Oct. 14, 2010
Morris, IL Air Force H 1955-1958
Charles L. Carey
Albert “Swede” Carlson Morris, IL Navy H 1943-1945 Died May 6, 2001
Leonard S. Carlson
Kinsman, IL Air ForceH1941-45, 52-53 Died Feb. 1998
Robert S. Carlson
Morris, IL Marines H 1969-1972
Eric Carriger
Louis Bernard Cheshareck
William Cheshareck
Willie Cheshareck
Homer Glen, IL Marines H 1942-1944 Died March 9, 2007
Morris, IL Navy H 1964-1967
Morris, IL Army H 1943-1946 Died June 17, 2013
Ralph Chamness
Ralph T. Chandler
Frank Cheshareck
Catherine A. Canik
Daniel Callahan
Brodhead, WI Navy H 1968-1971
Chapin, IL Marines H 2006-2011
Edward J. Cepiel, Sr.
Morris, IL Army H 1951-1953 Died June 20, 2011
Bridget Lenzie Cermak
Richard “Riz” Chouinard
Milford Christianson
Ron Cingrani
Coal City, IL IL Nat’l Guard H 1990-1996
Reddick, IL Army H 1942-1945 Died June 2006
Morris, IL Army H 1942-1945 Died 1980
Morris, IL Marines H 1953-1955 Died July 7, 2009
Morris, IL Army Air ForceH1946-49 Died April 15, 1955
Morris, IL Army H 1945-1946 Died Feb. 27, 2010
Morris, IL Army H WWII Died Feb. 7, 1997
Morris, IL Air Force H 1942-1953 Died July 19, 2016
Morris, IL Army H 1942-1945 Died Feb. 28, 1982
Morris, IL Navy H 1964-1967
John Clampitt
Evan E. Clark
Candace M. Clay
Christine M. Clay
Matthew R. Clay
Chester Claypool
Jared Claypool
John LeRoy Claypool
Lester Claypool
Morris, IL Army H 1943-1945 Died March 6, 2002
Gardner, IL Army H 1955-1957
Minooka, IL Navy H 2002-2013
Minooka, IL Navy H 2005-2010
Minooka, IL Marines H 2004-2013
Rodney A. Clements
Jack Cobb
Robert E. Cohenour
Bob Coleman
Noble E. Collins
Morris, IL Marines H 1968-1972 Died May 21, 2007
Glen Allen, MO Air Force H 1951-1955
Morris, IL Navy H 1943-1947 Died July 31, 1985
Morris, IL Army H 1961-1967
Minooka, IL Army H 1942-1945 Died January 20, 1997
Morris, IL Army H 1942-1945 Died May 2001
Morris, IL Marines H 2003-2004
Morris, IL Army H 1958-1960
Morris, IL Army H 1942-1945 Died May 25,1980
Edward “Ted” Conley
Chad Cook
Daniel R. Cook, Sr.
Orin C. Cooper
Morris, IL Navy H 1941-1945 Died Dec. 16, 2007
Morris, IL Army H 1991-present
Morris, IL Army H 1967-1969
Morris, IL Army H 1951-1953
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Clemer Corn
S. Carter Corsello
Joseph Corsello
Thomas F. Costello
Douglas Cotter
Daniel P. Cox
Dean W. Cox
Robert Craig
Don Crater
Braidwood, IL Navy H 1942-1947
Morris, IL Army H 1988-2010
Morris, IL Army H 1952-1954
Morris, IL Navy H 1942-1945 Died July 4, 2003
Morris, IL Army H 1968-1970
Branson, MO Navy H 1980-1983
Rockdale, IL Army H 1985-1988
Morris, IL Army H 1953-1954
So. Wilmington, IL Army H 1952-1956 Died April 11, 2009
Jim Crinister
Walter Cripe
Paul Crisman
George Cromwell
William Cromwell
Andy Cronin
Curtis Cronin
Joshua Crosby
James K. Cryder
Morris, IL Army H 1989-1992
Harold H. Cunning
Cedar Lake, MN Air Force H 1968-1972
Morris, IL Air Force H 1987-1992 Navy H 2000-2003
Mazon, IL Army H 1950-1958 Died April 21, 1980
Mazon, IL Coast Guard H 1942-44 Died Dec. 23, 1983
Dwight, IL Navy H active
Dwight, IL Navy H 1998-2011
Seneca, IL Army H 2004-present
Morris, IL Army H 1951-1953 Died July 15, 2010
Bill G. Daniels
Curtis Danielson
Jerome Danielson
Robert Darin
Eugene W. Datti
Bernard C. Davidson
John R. “Jack” Davidson
Maurice R. “Buck” Davidson
Elvin Davy
Harry Davy
So. Wilmington, IL Air Force H 1951-1953
Coal City, IL Army H 1951-1953
Marseilles, IL Army H 1946-1948 Died Jan. 7, 1982
Marseilles, IL Army H 1941-1946 Died Sept. 6, 1948
Morris, IL Marines H 1975-1979
Marseilles, IL Army H 1965-1967
Morris, IL Army H 1941-1961 Died March 15, 1981
Mark Davis
Matthew Davis
Robert Davis
Wesley J. Davis
Ryan P. Davisson
Joseph L. Davito
Lee J. Davito
Joliet, IL Army H 2003-present
Joliet, IL Army H 2005-present
Morris, IL Army H 1962-1964
Morris, IL Navy H 2005-present
Minooka, IL Navy H 2005-present
Coal City, IL Army Air Force H 1943-45 Died July 17, 2001
Coal City, IL Army H 1972-1975
Morris, IL Navy H 1946-1948 Died Sept. 15, 1991
Morris, IL Army H 1944-1946 Died April 25, 1994
Coal City, IL Army H 1945-1946 Died Nov. 22, 2001
Morris, IL Navy H 1958-1964
Robert DeLong
Zachary D. DeLong
Glenn “Dutch” DeLong Dwight/Streator, IL Marines H Korea Died 1990s
Neil E. Davy
Coal City, IL Air Force H 1968-1973
Juan R. De Leon
Seguin, TX Army H 1970-1973
Glenn G. Dearth
Coal City, IL Navy H 1942-1945 Died Sept. 2003
Wilbert J. Dearth
Coal City, IL Army H 1941-1945 Died 1975
Robert Lee Decker
Morris, IL Army H 1942-1946 Died June 30, 2019
Gary DeLong
Dwight, IL Marines H 1968-1970
Dwight, IL Army H WWII Died 1994
Dwight, IL Marines H active
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Irving DeWald
John N. Diederich
Albert Dinelli
Louis A. Dinelli
Mario D. Dinelli
Peter Dinelli
Terry Dingbaum
Tim Dippon
Morris, IL Army H 1997-2009
Coal City, IL Navy H 1957-1976
Morris, IL Army H 1958-1963
So. Wilmington, IL Navy H 1942-1945 Died June 25, 2001
So. Wilmington, IL Army H 1943-1945 Died Nov. 21, 2011
So. Wilmington, IL Army H 1944-1946 Died April 5, 2006
So. Wilmington, IL Army H 1943-1945 Died Oct. 2, 1981
Dubuque, IA Army H 1988-1991
Dwight, IL Marines H 2000-2004
Raymond Dirker
Kyle Dite
Louis C. Dite
Owen P. Dite
Raymond Dite
Richard A. Dite
James W. Dolan, Jr.
James Wayne Dolan
Pete Dolan
Morris, IL Army H 1941-1945 Died April 6, 2003
Terre Haute, IN Army H 2009-present
Morris, IL Army H 1942-1946 Died April 15, 1967
Joliet, IL Army H 1970-1972
Morris, IL Army H 1945-1946
Morris, IL Army H 1959-1960
Morris, IL Army H 1966-1969
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Morris, IL Army H 1991-1996 Died Jan. 20, 1996
Diamond, IL Army H 1953-1956, 1962-1965
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Terrence Donahue
John F. Doran
Andrew J. Downs
Jacob Downs
Michael A. Downs
Bob Drake
Dan Dransfeldt
Robert B. Duket
Carl Eugene Dummitt
Morris, IL Army H 1966-1968
Dwight, IL Army H 1941-1945 Died April 10, 1959
Channahon, IL Army H 1966-1969 Died Dec. 6, 2010
New Lenox, IL Army H 2013-present
Channahon, IL Army H 1990-2008
New Lenox, IL Marines H 1941-1946 Died Sept. 13, 1999
Morris, IL Army H 1969-1971
Rockford, IL Navy H 1942-1945 Died Feb. 13, 2005
Morris, IL Army H 1946-1947 Died May 4, 2006
Mike Dummitt
Peter Dummitt
David Dunlap
Bob Durkee
Donald “Tink” Durkee Morris, IL Army H 1946-1948 Died 1993
Erwin “Nick” Durkee
Morris, IL Navy H 1944-1946 Died Sept. 20, 2011
George Durkee
Morris, IL Navy H 1944-1946 Died 1972
Jim Durkee
Morris, IL Army H 1951-1953 Died 1975
John Durkee
Morris, IL Army H 1953-1955 Died 1957
Everett Egeland
Roy Egeland
Tyler Eichelberger
Jerry Einhaus, Sr.
Tom Einhaus
Morris, IL Army H 1969-1972
Morris, IL Marines H 1964-1988
Dwight, IL Air Force H active
Morris, IL Army H 1943-1945 Died 2007
Henry (Hank) Dyer
Vincent J. Eddy
David Edge
Donald Edmondson
Morris, IL Army H 1951-1953 Died Dec. 30, 2011
Morris, IL Air Force H 1965-1969
Ashland, MS Marines H 1966-1967
Minooka, IL Air Force H 1962-1966 Died May 29, 2021
Morris, IL Army H 1941-1945 Died March 7, 2005
Morris, IL Marines H 1943-1945
Diamond, IL Navy H 2009-2013
Seneca, IL Army H 1968-1970
Seneca, IL Navy H 1961-1981 Died July 14, 1986
Kenneth D. Elberson
Louie Eliakis
Steve A. Eliakis
Derek W. Ellis
Dwayne L. Ellis
Derek Elsey
John R. Ely
Harion Enervold
Harris Enervold
Morris, IL Marines H 1960-1963
Morris, IL Army H 1954-1956
Morris, IL Army H 1942-1945 Died 1996
Ottawa, IL Navy H 1983-1988
Ottawa, IL Navy H 1956-1960
Dwight, IL Air Force H active
Mazon, IL Air Force H 1961-1964
Seneca, IL Marines H 1966-1970
Morris, IL Navy H 1943-1946
Olaf Enervold
Richard Enervold
Burdett O. Enger
Matt Enger
Raymond “Bud” Enger
William English, Jr.
John Enrietta
Dale B. Eslinger
Roger Eslinger
Seneca, IL Marines H 1970-1974
Morris, IL Army H 1956-1958
Morris, IL Navy H 1943-1946 Died June 20, 2005
Morris, IL Marines H 2007-2011
Morris, IL Army H 1941-1945 Died Dec. 1971
So. Wilmington, IL Army H WWII Died 1994
Coal City, IL Army H 1942-1945 Died March 8, 1997
Minooka, IL Army H 1968-1972
Thomson, IL Air Force H 1962-1966 Died March 11, 2006
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Wilmer “Bill” Falck Melvin, IL Army H 1942-1945 Died Oct. 16, 2005
Morris, IL Army Air ForceH1942-1945 Died 1976
Camp Dix, KY Army H 1941-1945 Died Nov. 10, 2000
Morris, IL Air Force H 1949-1954 Died August 3, 2017
John D. Farrero, Sr.
Richard Farrero
Leo Fatlan
Anton H. Favero
Tom Feehan
Gadsden, TN Army H 1952-1954 Died June 9, 2010
Coal City, IL Navy H 1943-1948 Died Feb. 20, 1990
Coal City, IL Army H 1966-1968
Joseph O. Fancher
Gardner, IL Army H 1942-1945 Died Feb. 21, 2010
Ersel Fannin
Braceville, IL Army H 1953-1955 Died February 27, 2005
J. Marvin Fannin
Morris, IL Navy H 1945-1946 Died 1980
Lloyd V. Fannin
Robert Fararre
Morris, IL Army H 1949-1952 Died February 24, 2019
Lloyd Fannin
Morris, IL Army H 1944-1945 Died 1980
James R. Feeney, Sr.
Elwood Ferguson
Richard J. Ferguson
Morris, IL Army H 1941-1945 Died Oct. 28, 1971
Morris, IL Navy H 1945 Army H 1950-1952
Marseilles, IL Army H 1979-1989
Morris, IL Navy Air H 1950-1954
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Morris, IL Marines H 2007-2011
Russell Ferguson
Morris, IL Marines H 1958-1961
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William M. Ferguson
Dominic Ferrari
Russell J. Finch
Bill Finfrock
Daniel Finn
William Finn
Leonard R. Fioritto
Leonard Fioritto
Kevin Fischer
Morris, IL Marines H 1951-1953
Gardner, IL Army H 1958-1960
Verona, IL Navy H 1940-1945 Died June 25, 1986
Morris, IL Army H 1965-1967
Coal City, IL Army H 1970-1972
Coal City, IL Army H 1942-1945
Coal City, IL Army H 1943-1946 Died March 11, 1996
Coal City, IL Air Force H 1966-1970
Morris, IL Navy H 1993-1997
Dale W. Fitch
Gary P. Fitzmaurice
Maurice Fleetwood
Bob Flynn
Rocky L. Flynn
Jules H. Fortin
Dorsey Foster
Nathan Fox
Jessica (Claypool) Franz
Morris, IL Army H 1968-1970
Morris, IL Air Force H 1963-1967
Morris, IL Army H 1941-1945 Died Oct. 29, 1973
Morris, IL Navy H 1948-1952
Morris, IL Marines H 1968-1969
Greenville, NH Army H 1953-1955
Morris, IL Navy H 1981-1985
Dwight, IL Marines H 2006-2010
Morris, IL Marines H 2007-2010
Wayne Gabehart
Coal City, IL Korea H Air Force H Air Borne Died 1997
Howard Fread
William A. Freis
Gerald L. Friant
Glenn Friant
Leonard Friddle
Natalie Friend
Larry J. Frosch
William E. Fruland
Morris, IL Army H 1917-1919 Died 1980
Seneca, IL Army H 1963-1965
Morris, IL Army H 1964-1965
Morris, IL Army H 1958-1961
Coal City, IL Army H 1965-1968
Morris, IL Air Force H 1981-1985
Thomson, IL Air Force H 1961-1965 Died 2011
Morris, IL Air Force H 1974-2000
Raymond D. Gaddo
Kevin J. Gaffney
Marvin J. Gagliardo
Jim Gallagher
Michael Gallagher
Norval Galloway
Robert A. Gallup
Gene Gang
Ralph Gilbertson, Sr.
Morris, IL Army H 1941-1945 Died May 9, 2007
Poplar Grove, IL Navy H 2003-2012
Coal City, IL Army H 1952-1953 Died June 17, 2011
Seneca, IL Navy H 1987-1991
Robert Garcia
Charles “Chuck” Garling
Phil Gilbert
Bob Gilbertson
Morris, IL Marines H 1963-1967
Morris, IL Army H 1952-1954 Died March 1, 2007
Reddick/Gardner, IL Army H 1940-1945 Died Nov. 10, 2006
Morris, IL Army H 1969-1971
Morris, IL Navy H 1979-1983
Mazon, IL Army H 1944-1946 Died Nov. 5, 2008
Maurice G. Gantzert
Streator, IL Army H 1942-1945
Verona, IL Air Corp. H 1942-1946
Morris, IL Navy H 1952-1956
Mazon, IL Army H 1941-1963 Died Jan. 8, 1989
Dick Gilchrist
John Gilchrist
Richard A. Gilmour
LeRoy Gilmoure
Coal City, IL Army H 1953-1955
Coal City, IL Marines H 1968-1970
Coal City, IL Army H 1957-1959
Mazon, IL Army H 1943-1946
15 Crestview, FL Marines H 1953-1955 Died Nov. 8, 2006
Lando Gingerich
Kalona, IA Air Force H 1950-1954
Roy Gleen
Morris, IL Army H 1941-1953 Died Feb. 14, 2005
Edward J. Glenney
Lyle Goff
Keith Golimowski
Michael Golimowski
Ronald Goode
Morris, IL Navy H 1956-1960
Morris, IL Air Force H 1966-1969
Morris, IL Army H 2009-present
Morris, IL Army H 1968-1970
Mazon, IL Army H 1968-1970
Edna Roach Graham
L. Rice Graham
Lawrance Graham
Tracy N. Graham
Elmer T. Granger
James W. Gonnam
Verona, IL Army H 1972-1974
Roger M. Gordon
Palmyra, IL Air Force H 1949-1953 Died May 30, 1989
Jesse W. Gonnam
Verona, IL Air Force H 1941-1945 Died Aug. 2, 2002
Ole M. Greenley, Jr.
Ole M. Greenley, Sr.
Tom Granger
John Gram
Camp Point, IL Army Flight NurseH1941-45 Died March 1986
Griffin, GA Navy H 1941-1945 Died Feb. 2002
Morris, IL Army H 1949-1955
Morris, IL Navy H 2003-2008 Coast Guard ReservesH2009-present
So. Wilmington, IL Army H 1946 Died Feb. 23, 2009
So. Wilmington, IL National Guard H 1976-1981
Morris, IL Army H 1951-1953
Nicholas W. Gregoire
Dale Grieff
William J. Griffiths
Frank Grimes
Eric Gronski
Eddie Grove
Ken Grudis
Matteson, IL Air Force H 1964-1967
Morris, IL Navy H 1969-1970 Died Oct. 11, 2013
Morris, IL Navy H 1941-1945 Died Aug. 25, 1974
Morris, IL Marines H 2003-2006
So. Wilmington, IL Army H 1968-1970
Mazon, IL Army H 1949-1953 Died March 6, 1996
Robert L. Gualandi
Mervin “Bud” Guard Morris, IL Navy H 1943-1946 Died Dec. 2000
Stephen Guard
Morris, IL Army H 1969-1972
Gary Gunnerson
Morris, IL Army H 1965-1967
Christopher Guthrie
Morris, IL Air Force H 2010-2019
Morris, IL Navy H 1943-1945 Died Aug. 14, 1993
Morris, IL Navy H 1953-1961 Died March 18, 2019
Morris, IL Army H 1942-1945 Died April 21, 2015
Mazon, IL Army Air Corp.H1941-45 Died Nov. 19, 2014
Peter Hammond
Daniel Hamric
Harvey A. Hansen
Lars M. Hansen
Leonard M. Hansen
Lowell R. Hansen
Sherman Hansen
Jerry Hanson
Lloyd Hanson
Braceville, IL Marines H 1987-1997
Morris, IL Navy H 1987-1990 Died Oct. 2, 2017
Morris, IL Army H 1988-1992
Morris, IL Air Force H 1943-1946 Died Jan. 27, 2013
Morris, IL Army H 1917-1919 Died Feb. 2, 1969
Morris, IL Army H 1950-1952 Died March 29, 2019
John Iverson
Morris, IL Army H 1944-1946 Died 1988
Babcock, WI Army H 1965-1968
Morris, IL Army H Korean War Died March 13, 1996
Verona, IL Navy H 1949-1953
Elwood Hahn
George W. Hall
William S. Halterman
Morris, IL Seabees H 1946-1949 Died Oct. 26, 2006
Bristol, IL Army H 1964-1966
Sheridan, IL Army H 1951-1953 Died Feb. 28, 2008
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Raymond Hanson
Stanley Hanson
Wally Hanson
William Hanson
Willis J. Hanson, Jr.
Willis J. Hanson, Sr.
David A. Harper
Joshua W. Harris
George E. Harrop
Newark, IL H Army H Died Jan. 31, 1955
Lisbon, IL Army H 1942-1945 Died May 29, 1964
Morris, IL Coast Guard H 1969-1973
Morris, IL H Army H Died June 26, 1988
Morris, IL Air Force H 1967-1971 Died Sept. 3, 2014
Morris, IL Army H 1944-1946 Died March 15, 2003
Morris, IL Army H 1965-1967
Romeoville/Forest Park, IL Army Nat’l GuardH2005 Died Sept. 17, 2008
Gardner, IL Army H 1942-1945 Died Nov. 10, 2013
Henry D. Harseim
Donald Harvey
Josh Harvey
Lonnie Harvey
Merrill C. Harvey
Maynard Hawkins
George Heap
Ron Heap
Trent Heap
Morris, IL Army H 1965-1968
Braceville, IL Air Force H 1965-1969
Gardner, IL Navy H 2011
Coal City, IL Army/Air Force H 1982-1988, 2005-2011
Gardner, IL Army H 1964-1966 Died Oct. 8, 2015
Morris, IL Army H 1939-1945 Died Jan. 23, 2014
Morris, IL Air Force H 1943-1945
Morris, IL Army H 1965-1967
Morris, IL Army H 1989-1993
John Heavens
William Heermann
Nathan Hefner
Arnold Helgeson
Bennie Helland
Joseph G. Hemmersbach
Raymond E. Hemmersbach
Victor D. Hemmersbach
Adam Henderson
Coal City, IL Air Corps H 1963-1966
Morris, IL Army H 1951-1956 Died April 19, 2009
Minooka, IL Army H 1995-present
Morris, IL Coast Guard H 1942-1945
Morris, IL Army H 1953-1955
Morris, IL Air Force H 1973-1977
Morris, IL Air Force H 1968-1972
Morris, IL Air Force H 1966-1970
Morris, IL Marines H 2004-2008
Jake Hendrix
Jay Hendrix
Herbert Hentschel
Duane L. Heren
Gil Herrera
Leslie E. Hertenstein
Myron L. Hexdall
John Hextell
Ronald G. Hibler
Wedron, IL Marines H 1963-1967 Died April 18, 1993
Jupiter, FL Army H 1986-1996
Morris, IL Navy H 1964-1970
Green Valley, IL Army H 1951-1952
New Lenox, IL Army H 2001-2009
Coal City, IL Army H 1943-1946 Died Jan. 5, 2003
Morris, IL Army H 1961-1963
Morris, IL Army H 1962-1968 Died Feb. 3, 1992
Coal City, IL Army H 1965-1967
Daniel Hicks
Greg Higgins
John R. Higgins
Merlyn Higgins
Ruth Hiles
William Hiles
Earlyn K. Hill
Elton J. Hill
Lester M. Hill
Marseilles, IL Air Force H 1948-1952
Seneca, IL Army H 2006-2010
Seneca, IL Army H 1951-1953
Seneca, IL Army H 1951-1953
Morris, IL Navy H WWII
Morris, IL Navy H WWII Died July 21, 2001
Mazon, IL Army H 1944-1945 Died May 18, 1964
Gardner, IL Army H 30 years Died Jan. 10, 1988
Mazon, IL Army H 1943-1945 Died March 14, 1945
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Andrew M. Hillegass
Vernon Hilt, Sr.
Bill Hiney
Gary Hively
Wayne Hodgson
Ralph Holbrook
Noel Holman
Raymond Holzhauer
Mazon, IL Army H 1942-1946 Died April 3, 2008
Morris, IL Army H 1941-1945 Died Sept. 14, 2004
Lisbon, IL Army H 1944 Died July 13, 2003
Morris, IL Army H 1965-1967
Minooka, IL Navy H 1990-present
Morris, IL Army H 1942-1945 Died July 25, 2008
Minooka, IL Army H 1942-1945 Died Sept. 18, 1975
Cedar Point, IL Navy H 1951-1955 Died March 4, 2007
Dwight, IL H Marines H KIA March 15, 2007
Stephen Homerding
Timothy Hood
Elizabeth Hortega
Josiah Hortega
William “Bill” Horton Yorkville, IL Army H 1956-1958 Died 1994
Gerald R. Houchin
Seneca, IL Marines H 1957-1972 Died Nov. 18, 1972
Keith O. Houchin
Seneca, IL Marines H 1952-1956 Died April 22, 2010
Harold G. Hougas
Marseilles, IL Army H 1951-1953
Irvin L. Hougas, Sr.
Morris, IL Marines H 1943-1945 Died March 1, 1945
Steven M. Huettemann
Brian Humbert
Albert L. Hume
Michael T. Hume
Robert A. Hume
Plainfield, IL Army H WWII Died Oct. 1, 2001
Morris, IL Navy H 2006-present
Ottawa, IL Navy H 2002-2007
Ottawa, IL Marines H 1998-2006
James E. Hougas
Troy Householder
Willard Howen
Nicholas Huerta
Morris, IL Army H 1952-1956 Died Sept. 11, 2009
Morris, IL Air Force H 1986-1989
Morris, IL Army H 1942-1946 Died June 4, 1993
Braceville, IL Army H active
Peru, IL Army H Desert Sheild/ Desert Storm
Dwight, IL Navy H active
Morris, IL Army H 1942-1945 Died 1993
Morris, IL Army H 1972-1974
Morris, IL Navy H 1968-1972
Dennis Huston
Robert Hutchings
Roy Hutchings, Jr.
Ronald Hutton
Jim Hynds
Gary L. Ingraham
Robert H. Inman
Paul Izral
Melvin L. Jackman
Gardner, IL Navy H 1964-1968 Died Jan. 22, 2017
Morris, IL Army H 1951-1953
Morris, IL Army H 1945-WWII Died Dec. 24, 2001
Wilmington, IL Army H 1965-1967 Died June 19, 2012
Luke Jackson
Barry W. Jaicomo
Walter Jaicomo
William J. Jaicomo
Seneca, IL Navy H 2011-2015 Marines H 2015-present
So. Wilmington, IL Army H 1968-1970
So. Wilmington, IL Army H WWII Died Dec. 4, 1982
So. Wilmington, IL Navy H 1943-1946 Died March 4, 2011
Morris, IL Army H 1966-1968
Ronald Jamieson
Dwight, IL Army H 1983-2010
Verona, IL Navy H 1957-1979
Coal City, IL Air Force H 1943-1945
Alfred “Red” Jenkins
Carroll Jewett
Mazon, IL Army H 1965-1967
Mazon, IL Marines H 1918-1919 Died 1977
Morris, IL Army H 1988-1991
George Jisa
Coal City, IL Coast Guard H 1941-1947 Died Oct. 29, 1997
Gardner, IL Army H 1954-1956
Carl R. Johnson
Chicago, IL Navy H 1941-1945
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Morris, IL H Marines H Died June 7, 1967
Donald Johnson
Gary LeRoy Johnson
Gene A. Johnson
Harold F. Johnson
John O. Johnson
Harry A. Johnson
Verona, IL Army H 1958-1960
Morris, IL Air Force H 1966-1970
Newark, IL Army H 1952-1954
Gardner, IL Marines H 1943-1945
Morris, IL Army H 1942-1945 Died May 10, 1975
LeRoy Palmer Johnson
Lester W. Johnson
Oliver Johnson
Scott Johnson
Silas Johnson
Vernon E. Johnson
Dr. Larry C. Johnson
Lavern Johnson
Morris, IL Army H 1942-1945 Died Jan. 24, 2010
Brookfield, MO Army H 1969-1972
Morris, IL Air Force H 1963-1967
Vernon K. Johnson
Hank Jones
Wesley E. Jorstad
Morris, IL Seabees H 1966-1968
Morris, IL Army H 1941-1945 Died Oct. 7, 2006
Morris, IL Air Force H 1942-1944 Died April 1, 1944
Mazon, IL Army H 1971-1973
Morris, IL Army H 1917-1921 Died July 24, 1959
Morris, IL Army H 1942-1945 Died April 28, 2000
Joliet, IL Army Air Force H 1944-46 Died Jan. 3, 1986
Morris, IL Army H 1941-1945 Died Nov. 11, 2009
Morris, IL Navy H 1944-1946 Died Dec. 27, 2008
Michael H. Joyce
Harold Kaldheim
Helen Kaldheim
Donald C. Kaufman
Robert R. Keech
Scott A. Keech
Ben F. Kelly
Jacob A. Kelly
Marvin Kessler
So. Wilmington, IL Navy H 1944-1946
Seneca, IL Army H 1942-1946 Died July 23, 2003
Seneca, IL Air Corp. H 1942-1945
Morris, IL Army H 1958-1961
Morris, IL Navy H 1945-1946 Died March 22, 2013
Morris, IL Navy H 1977-1981
Morris, IL Army Air Corp. H 1942-46
Mazon, IL Marines H 2013-present
Coal City, IL Navy H 1945-1946
Robert M. Kimmey
Raymond C. “Dick” Kindelspire Morris, IL Army Air Corp. H 1941-45 Died Aug. 28, 2005
Larry L. Kingman
Morris, IL Army H 1953-1955 Died March 9, 2012
Eugene Klainsek
Joliet, IL Navy, ArmyH1943-1954 Died Feb. 8, 2017
Jessica Klein
Morris, IL Navy H 1999-2007
Earl F. Kleinfeldt
Morris, IL Navy Air CorpH1942-45 Died Jan. 25, 2008
J. E. Kleinfeldt
Morris, IL Navy H 1966-1970
Lee E. Kleinfeldt
Morris, IL Army H 1972-1974
John H. Kleinmaier
Morris, IL Army H 1942-1945 Died February 16, 1999
Cate Klepacki
George F. Knudson
Gerald R. Knudson
Nathan D. Knutson
Harry Kolb
Don Komnick
John Kopczick
Raymond A. Kopczick
Frank B. Kuntz
Braceville, IL Army H 1968-1970
Dwight, IL Air Force H active
Morris, IL Army H 1953-1955 Died 1999
Minooka, IL Army H 1951-1953
Newark, IL Army H 2010-present
Morris, IL Marines H 1941-1946 Died 1969
Morris, IL Army H 1968-1970
Morris, IL Army H Korean War Died 1964
Morris, IL Army Air Corp.H1940-46 Died 1995
Strawn, IL Army H 1941-1962 Died April 20, 2012
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Gary R. Kuriger
William R. Kuriger
Ron Kyrouac
Charles Labaj
Walter R. Lacyk
James F. Lamie
Kurt Lamping
Stanley “Ike” Kopczick
William J. Lanning
Morris, IL Navy H 1959-1962
Coal City, IL Army H 1972-1974
Coal City, IL Army H 1946-1947
Harvey, IL Army H 1953-1955
Crete, IL Navy H WWII
Morris, IL Army H 1950-1952
Coal City, IL Army H 1917-1919 Died March 9, 1968
Morris, IL Army H 1987-2011
Albert Kowalczyk
Ami Kowalczyk
Dennis E. Kowalczyk
Richard Kowalczyk
Marc Krakar
Carl Kramer
Russell Kukman
Frank Kulig
Morris, IL Navy H WWII Died 1970
Morris, IL Navy H 1943-1946 Died Dec. 29, 1975
Morris, IL Navy H 2007-2009
Morris, IL Army H 1966-1969
Morris, IL Navy H 1961-1965
Joliet, IL Marines H 1956-1958
Morris, IL Navy H 1953-1957
Morris, IL Army H 1951-1953
Morris, IL Navy H 1944-1945 Died 2010
Morris, IL Navy H 1962-1966 Died March 3, 2012
Daniel Lardi
So. Wilmington, IL Army H 1966-1968
Keith Larson
Morris, IL Army H 1958-1961
Milford “Muff” Larson Morris, IL Army H 1951-1953
David E. Latham
Essex, IL Air Force H 1968-1971 Died Jan. 12, 1991
John T. Latham, Jr.
Custer Park, IL Army H 1964-1967
John T. Latham, Sr.
Essex, IL Army H 1939-1945 Died Sept. 4, 1965
Joe Laughary
Morris, IL Army Air CorpH1940-45
Keith Laughary
Morris, IL Marines H 1970-1972
Kevin Laughary
Morris, IL Navy H 2002-present
Kurt Laughary
Ruth Laughary
Gary L. Lawless
Walter L. Lawless
Ray Layton
Arthur R. Leach
Rich Leach
Harry Leasure
Frank D. Lee
Morris, IL Navy H 2002-present
Massillon, OH Navy H 2003-present
Gardner, IL Army H 1970-1972
Gardner, IL Navy H 1945-1953
Richmond Hill, GA Army H 1960-1962
Morris, IL Naval Aviation H 1942-1946
Morris, IL Navy H 1959-1965
Morris, IL Navy H 1947-1950 Died Jan. 11, 2011
Elgin, IL Marines H 1958, 8 yrs Reserves
George E. Lee
Kevin W. Leeds
Tim Lehman
Daniel L. Leiter
Dennis Lenzie
Donald Lenzie
Allan O. Leranger
Lindsay Leskanich
Eugene E. Lewis
Elgin, IL Army H 1954-1956
Morris, IL Air Force H 1984-1988
Dwight, IL Marines H 2002-2008
Coal City, IL Air Force H 1981-1985
Gardner, IL Army H 1967-1968
Gardner, IL Army H 1959-1960 Died 1965
Morris, IL Marines H 1969 Died May 20, 2008
Dwight, IL Army H active
Morris, IL Army H 1951-1954 Died Aug. 19, 2001
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Norman Lewis
Samantha Limbach
Adam Lindley
Ray L. Lindley
Gary P. Linick
Brandon M. Linn
Terry Livingston
Scott Lock
Raymond J. Loeffler, Jr.
Morris, IL Marines H 1952-1955
Morris, IL Navy H 2015-Present
Morris, IL Navy H 2003-2008
Morris, IL Army H 1965-1967 Died March 16, 2021
Chicago, IL Marine Corps H 1965-1968
Morris, IL Army H 2000-2008
Coal City, IL Army H 1966-1968
Morris, IL Navy H 1980-2000
Morris, IL Marines H 1959-1965
Albert Lovati
Alan D. Love
Granville A. Love
Clifford A. Lowery
William W. Lowery
Lawrence Lundborg
LaVerne Lundborg
Patricia Lundborg
Timothy Lundborg
Joliet, IL Navy H 1939-1942 Died Jan. 16, 1987
Morris, IL Marines H 1965-1969
Morris, IL Navy H 1942-1945 Died Sept. 1992
Mazon, IL Army Air Corp. H 1942-1945
Mazon, IL Marines H 1968-1971
Morris, IL Navy H 1974-1980 Died October 26, 2016
Morris, IL Army H 1941-1945 Died December 22, 1993
Morris, IL Navy H 1978-1984
Morris, IL Navy H 1986-1992
Christopher Lutz
Frank Lutz
Lavern R. Lutz
Robert Lynes
Joseph A. Macaluso
Samuel L. Lyons
Coal City, IL Army/Civil WarH1864-1865
Donald Lyon
Henry A. Lyons
Henry E. Lyons
Morris, IL Army H 1959-1965
Coal City, IL Air Force H 1950-1954
Coal City, IL Army/WWI H 1918-1919
Joseph M. Macaluso
Robert S. Macdonald
Donald Madison
Norman R. Madison
Morris, IL Navy H 1993-1999
Morris, IL Navy H 1943-1945
Morris, IL Army H 1951-1953
Morris, IL Army Air Force H 1943-45 Died July 10, 1970
Coal City, IL Navy H 1940-1943 Died Feb. 7, 2003
Francis M. Maierhofer
Elmer J. Male
Bernard Mallaney
Richard “Dick” Malone Morris, IL Army H 1946-1947 Died April 20, 2003
Lawrence P. Marchesi
Amboy, IL Army H 1961-1964
Gerald Matteson
Kenneth Matteson
Russell Matteson
Coal City, IL Army H 1964-1966
Morris, IL Army H 1943-1946 Died Sept. 3, 2001
Mazon, IL Army H 1943-1946 Died March 17, 2001
Mazon, IL Army CIA H 1953-1955
Seneca, IL Air Force H 1950-1953
Gardner, IL Army H 1943-1946 Died October 8, 1972
Walter Marnell
William V. Martin
Robert D. Martis
David M. Maskel
Emmett Maskel
Clyde F. Mason
Morris, IL Coast Guard H 1942-1946
Morris, IL Navy H 1951-1955
Coal City, IL Army H 1951-1953
Morris, IL Army H 1958-1961
Morris, IL Army H 1952-1954 Died Aug. 23, 2001
Morris, IL Marines H 1943-1945 Died Sept. 7, 2012
Kinsman, IL Army H 1942-1946 Died Jan. 10, 2015
Morris, IL Army H 1953-1954
Newark/Morris, IL Air Force H 1957-1961
Morris, IL Army H 1943-1946 Died May 27, 1967
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John F. Maunder
John Mazza
Gene L. McArdle
Jim McCleary
Dennis McCluckie
Earl (Mickey) McComas
Donald P. McCormack
Forrest McCormack
Morris, IL Army H 1956-1962
Morris, IL Army H 1943-1945
Mazon, IL Air Force H 1987-present
Morris, IL Army H 1942-1945 Died April 3, 1969
Morris, IL Army H 1965-1966 Died Feb. 25, 1966
Morris, IL Army H 1966-1968
Morris, IL Navy H 1942-1954
Verona, IL Army H 1965-1968
Mazon, IL Army H 1963-1965
James R. McCormack
Kenneth McCormack
La Verne McCormack
Ken McCoy
Joseph B. McGuan
Paul E. McIntosh
Donald Dean McKinney
Jeremy N. McKinney
Jerry Jon McLuckie
Mazon, IL Marines H 1964-1971
Verona, IL Marines H 1965-1969
Verona, IL Army H 1944-1945 Died March 10, 2009
Mazon, IL Army H 1966-1969 Died Dec. 2, 1976
Morris, IL Marines H 1963-1967 Died April 14, 2006
Diamond, IL Army H 1964-1966
Coal City, IL Army H 1942-1946
Coal City, IL Navy H 2002-2006
Coal City, IL Army H 1971-1975
John Wilton “Bill” McLuckie
Donald R. McMillan, Jr.
Mack McMillin
John McNabb
Kate Meadows
Richard Meadows
Ron E. Menees
Jackie L. Meredith
Llyod W. Meredith
Coal City, IL Army H 1943-1945 Died March 21, 2000
Gardner, IL Air Force H 1985-1989
Coal City, IL Army H 1945-1946 Died Sept. 2, 2013
Morris, IL Army H 1967-1969
Morris, IL Navy H 2000-present
Morris, IL Navy H 1966-1972
Seneca, IL Marines H 1953-1958
Braceville, IL Army H 1959-1961
Braceville, IL Army H 1948-1952
Robert T. Meredith
Ed Meridith
James R. Meridith
Robert Messel
Dominic J. Messina
Robert L. Metroz
John (Jack) Micetich
Philip (Joe) Micetich
Alan H. Miller
Braceville, IL Army H 1957-1959
Morris, IL Navy H 1951-1953 Died March 10, 2000
Morris, IL Navy H 1943-1946 Died March 27, 2001
Morris, IL Marines H 1959-1963
Tinley Park, IL Army H 2003-2010
Morris, IL Marines H 1998-2002
Coal City, IL Army H 1955-1956
Coal City, IL Army H 1943-1946 Died Nov. 10, 1968
Clifton, IL Navy H 1965-1980
Henry “Hank” Miller
Jacob D. Miller
Lynn “Mike” Miller
Orville (Buck) Miller
Orville C. Miller
Raleigh Miller
Sean Miller
William E. Miller
Kyle Minett
Coal City, IL Navy H 1943-1945 Died 2006
Coal City, IL Marines H 2009-present
Morris, IL Navy H 1945-1946, 1950-1952
Coal City, IL Navy H 1956-1958
Morris, IL Air Force H 1966-1970 Died August 31, 2014
Diamond, IL Army Air Force H 1942-45 Died May 2000
Columbia, MO Navy H active
Elgin, IL Army H 1946-1948 Died Feb. 4, 2002
Manhattan, IL Navy H 1999-2005
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Joseph Misener
Terry Misener
Richard Mitchell
Elton L. Monson
Jim Moran
James W. Morrall
John Morris, Jr.
John Morris
Wayne Morris
Morris, IL Army H 1968-1970
Mazon, IL Army H 1967-1969
Morris, IL Army H 1951-1953 Died May 24, 2002
Morris, IL Marines H 1953-1955
Mazon, IL Army H 1970-1972
Morris, IL Marines H 1942-1945 Died Nov. 7, 1992
Channahon, IL Navy H 1989-1993
Channahon, IL Army H 1965-1967 Viet Nam
Coal City, IL Navy H 1965-1969
Bill Morse
James Mulcahy
Mark Munger
Adam Murphy
J. F. Murphy
Terry Muscato
David S. Musgrave
Richard O. “Dick” Myers
John Nagra
Morris, IL Army H 1954-1956
Streator, IL Navy H 1943-1946 Died May 18, 2018
Dwight, IL Marines H 1986-2011
Coal City, IL Army H 1914-1916 Died June 12, 1968
Morris, IL Navy H 1942-1945 Died Oct. 6, 1995
Streator, IL Marines H 1967-1971
Minooka, IL Navy H 1985-1994
Morris, IL Navy H 1964-1967 Died Dec. 31, 1998
Joliet, IL Army H 1943-1945 Died Nov. 28, 1988
John Nars
Tim Nagra
H. Wayne Neal
Bill E. Nelson
Gerald Nelson
Ivan M. Nelson
Jack E. Nelson
Mitchell D. Nelson
Donald Neville
Morris, IL Army Air Corps H 1942-1943 Died May 12, 2009
Morris, IL Navy H 1976-1979
Coal City, IL Navy H 1946-1947
Morris, IL Navy H 1965-1967
Morris, IL Army H 1951-1953
Newark, IL Army H 1942-1945 Died Nov. 7, 2009
Wilmington, IL Navy H 1943-1946 Died March 21, 2005
Mazon, IL Army H 1953-1955 Died 1980
Green Bay, WI Air Force H 1957-1961 Died Oct. 29, 2011
Robert Newberry
Morris, IL Army H 1942-1946 Died July 6, 2001
Richard “Dick” Newell Morris, IL Navy H 1951-1955
Joseph Newman
Seneca, IL Navy H Korean War
Charles John (Jack) Newport
Belvidere, IL Army H 1950-1951 Killed in Action Aug. 27, 1951
Gwendolyn Babcock Newport
Morris, IL Navy Nurses Corp.H1943-47 Died August 2009
James Newport
Kinsman, IL Air Force H 1941-1945 Died 1994
Madison Nguyen
Dwight, IL Marines H active
Larry E. Nickels
Coal City, IL Army H 1945-1946
Elmer E. Newell
Morris, IL Navy H 1969-1975
Danny Niewinski
Henry H. Niewinski
Henry W. Niewinski
Cliff Nighsonger
Delbert J. Noble
John Nolan
Dale Norton
Terry C. Novotney
Chris Nugent
Morris, IL Navy H 2012-present
Morris, IL Army H Korean War
Morris, IL Army H WWII
Morris, IL Army H 1942-1945
Wheaton, IL Army H 1951-1953 Died March 1, 1994
Morris, IL Marines H 1943-1946
Alto Pass, IL Army H 1965-1967 Died Dec. 26, 2014
Streator, IL Army H 1959-1961
Wilmington, IL Army H 1980-1984
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Jeremiah Nugent, Sr.
Jerry Nugent
Mike Nugent
Patrick W. Nugent
Thomas Nugent
Erik Nusbaumer
Don O’Brien
Gerald O’Brien
Morris, IL Navy H 1974-1978
Wilmington, IL Army H 1950-1953 Died March 8, 1996
Coal City, IL Air Force H 1975-1979
Wilmington, IL Army H 1976-1980
Wilmington, IL Navy H 1990-1997
Coal City, IL Air Force H 1980-2001
Morris, IL Air Force H active
Morris, IL Army H 1965-1967
Minooka, IL Army H 1963-1965 Died February 17, 2020
Jack J. O’Hagen
Chicago, IL Marines H 1947-1955 Died Dec. 1, 2003
Michael O’Hagen
Morris, IL Marines H 1990-1995
Tyler Oelschlager Dwight, IL Navy H active
Robert W. Ollerman
Morris, IL Army H 1942-1945 Died July 15, 1980
Gene Olson
Seneca, IL Air Force H 1950-1953 Died April 10, 2002
Gregory T. Olson
Morris, IL Navy H 1971-1975
Larry Olson
Morris/Mazon, IL Army H 1968-1969
Maury Olson
Gardner, IL Army H 1941-1945 Died Jan. 8, 2012
Newan S. Olson
Morris, IL Army H 1941-1945 Died 1974
Richard O. Olson
Robert F. Olson
Roger L. Olson
Violet R. Olson
Joseph E. Opyd
Leo Paul Opyd, Sr.
Leon Paul Opyd, III
Leon Paul Opyd, Jr.
Luke Opyd
Monmouth, IL Navy H 1955-1957 Died Jan. 2, 2012
Morris, IL Navy H 1942-1946
Braceville, IL Army H 1966-1968
Morris, IL Navy H 1943-1967 Died Oct. 31, 2003
Coal City, IL Army H 1997-2008
Gardner, IL Army H 1943-1945 Died June 4, 2002
Coal City, IL Army H 1990-1993
Gardner, IL Army H 1970-1972
Gardner, IL Navy H 2010-present
Dennis Orvis
Lawrence Orvis
Gordon Osmundson
LaVerne Osmundson
Elwyn E. Oswood
Milburn J. Oswood
Marion S. Ostby
Douglas Overbeck
Edward Pacchetti
Seneca, IL Navy H 1967-1969
Seneca, IL Army H 1966-1969
Morris, IL Army H 1943-1945 Died Sept. 19, 2014
Morris, IL Air Force H 1943-1946 Died Jan. 17, 1978
Morris, IL Army H 1950-1952 Died Dec. 31, 1999
Morris, IL Navy H 1944-1946 Died Oct. 11, 2003
Marseilles, IL Navy H Enlisted 1945 Died Feb. 18, 1994
Minooka, IL Navy H 1976-1984
Arthur Patterson
James Pavlis
Coal City, IL Army WWI H OperatorInfantry Died 1966
Seneca, IL Army H 1941-1944 Died March 28, 2003
Albert C. Pankey
Clifton, IL Army H WWI Died 1963
Dennis N. Pankey
Clifton, IL Army H 1972-1974
Gerald J. Pankey
Clifton, IL Army H 1946-1948 Died 1999
Dick Parker
Morris, IL Army H 101st Airborne 1962-1964
Norman L. Paroubek
Merrill, WI Army H Air Force 1943-1946 Died April 5, 2019
Coal City, IL Army H 1942-1944 Died Oct. 2, 1988
Gary Patton
Ottawa, IL Marines H 1966-1969
Jeff Paulson
Morris, IL Navy H 1991-1993
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Coal City, IL Army H WWII PFC 1615 SVC Comd Unit Died 1971
Willis Peacock
Melvin A. Peterson
Delmar A. Peel
Delmar L. “Butch” Peel
David Perry
John L. Perry
Jerry Peterson
Agnes Peterson
Eugene G. “Pete” Peterson Morris, IL Army H 1942-1945 Died Oct. 23, 2013
Morris, IL Navy H 1989-2010
John (Jack) Phillips
John Phillips, Jr.
Morris, IL Army H 1944-1945 Died March 23, 2001
Morris, IL Navy H 1941-1945 Died Sept. 30, 1996
Morris, IL Navy H 1962-1966 Died Feb. 13, 2005
Morris, IL Navy H 1953-1993
Morris, IL Navy H 1953-1956
Morris, IL Navy H 1944-1946
Tim Pfaff
Donald L. Pfeifer, Sr.
Albert Phillips
Clarence Phillips
George W. Phillips
James R. Phillips, Sr.
Morris, IL Marines H 1943-1947
Morris IL Navy H 1981-1992
Gardner, IL Marines H 1951-1953
Jonesboro, AR Army H 1966-1968
Braceville, IL Army H 1943 Died 1985
Morris, IL Marines H 1953-1955 Died Feb. 6, 1977
Coal City, IL Marines H 1968-1972
Coal City, IL Marines H 1953-1955 Died Jan. 16, 2005
Coal City, IL Navy H 1976-1979
John M. Phillips, Sr.
Joseph T. Phillips, Jr.
Joseph T. Phillips, Sr.
Robert Phillips
Walter A. Phillips, Sr.
Frank Picciariello
Edward L. Pierard
Richard Pierce
Albert J. Pilch
Minooka, IL Marines H 1941-46, 48-53 Died Sept. 20, 2001
Coal City, IL Marines H 1953-1955
Coal City, IL Navy H 1943-1945 Died Nov. 5, 1984
Morris, IL Marines H 1953-1955 Died: February 22, 2020
Morris, IL Marines H 1948-1952 Died Nov. 4, 1995
Coal City, IL Army H 1960-1962 Died Nov. 11, 1991
Coal City, IL Army H 1957-1963
Morris, IL Army H 1954-1956 Died March 27, 2007
Chicago, IL H Army Air Force H 1944-1946
John Prebeg
Milan Prebeg
John F. Progress
Thomas F. Powell
Coal City, IL Navy H 1944-1945 Died Nov. 30, 1999
Russel Dale Pine
Morris, IL Navy H 1945-1948 Died 1948
Wayne E. Pine
Morris, IL Army H 1918
David G. Platt
Morris, IL Marines H 1966-1972 Died Sept. 1, 1975
Glenn Pope
Channahon, IL Air Force H 1967-1971
Jeffery Poundstone
Morris, IL Army H 1981-1991
Joliet, IL Army H WWII Died 2013
Joliet, IL Army H WWII Deceased
Seneca, IL Army H 1951-1953 Died Nov. 16, 2002
Curtis Rasmusson
Ronald J. Rath
Francis M. Reano
Patrick Rafferty
Dwight, IL Army H active
Mark Prosser
Joliet, IL Army H 2004-2-12
Ivan Provance
Coal City, IL H Navy H Died March 9, 2005
Amity Taylor Provenzano
Morris, IL Navy H 1997-2000
G. Herbert Ranz
Morris, IL Army Air Force H 1941-45 Died Oct. 27, 2004
Michael A. Ranz
Morris, IL Navy H 1969-1971
Morris, IL Army H 1951-1953
Morris, IL Army H 1969-1971
Diamond, IL Navy Air Corp. H 1944-46 Died Aug. 25, 2011
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R. Edward Reed
James I. Reeves
James W. Reeves
Joseph L. Reeves
Edward J. Reiser
Leon J. Residori
Gary Rickmon
Kimberly Rieck
Morris, IL Air Force H 1989-2017
Morris, IL Navy H 1993-1997
Coal City, IL Army Air ForceH1943-45 Died April 14, 1989
Morris, IL Navy H 2003-present
Morris, IL Navy H 2009-present
Channahon, IL Army H 1967-1973 Died July 13, 2009
So. Wilmington, IL Army H 1960-1962
Morris, IL Army H 1983-1986
Dwight, IL Navy H active
Dana Riegel
Jeremy Riegel
Paul L. Riegle
Timothy P. Riegle
George James Ringer
Jon Ringer
Martin J. Riordan, Jr.
Harold Ritke
Eugene Robertson
Dwight, IL Army H active
Dwight, IL Army H active
Brook, IN Navy H 1957-1960
Morris, IL Navy H 1982-2002
Indianapolis, IN Marines H 1982-2003
Webster City, IA Army H 1967-1969
Romeoville, IL Navy H 1941-1945 Died Jan. 7, 1994
Morris, IL Navy H 1943-1945 Died Jan. 10, 2010
Morris, IL Navy H 1966-1970
Brian Robisky
Dennis Robisky
Korey Rodrick
Kenneth Roe
Leland M. Roe
Wilmer Roe
Robert T. Rogers
John J. Ronchetti
Keith Roseland
Dwight, IL Air Force H active
Dwight, IL Air Force H active
Dwight, IL Nat’l Guard H Reservist
Seamon, OH Army H 1942-1945 Died March 15, 1965
Odell, IL Army Air Force H 1943-45
Piketon, OH Army H 1943-1945 Died Sept. 2006
Morris, IL Seabees H 1966-1968
Coal City, IL Army Air Force H 1943-45
Coal City, IL Army H 1969-1971
Wayne Roseland
Richard Rosencrans
Randall E. Rosengren
John B. Ross
John Roth, Jr.
John Roth, Sr.
Louis Ruffatti
Luverne Runestad
Marty Runestad
Coal City, IL Navy H 1943-1945 Died April 15, 2014
Seneca, IL Army H 1952-1954
Serena, IL Army H 1969-1970
Coal City, IL Army Air Corp.H1918-1919
Morris, IL Army H 1966-1968
Morris, IL Army/Air Force H 1942-45 Died April 29, 1977
Coal City, IL Army H 1954-1956
Morris, IL Army H 1944-1946 Died Jan. 13, 2013
Morris, IL Army H 1941-1945
Orliss L. Runestad
Shawn P. Runge
Davis A. Runion
Clinton Ryder
Darwin Ryder
Robert J. Ryder
Stephen J. Ryder
William Richard Ryder
Joseph T. Sajnaj
Morris, IL Navy H 1943-1946 Died Nov. 11, 2009
Warsaw, IL Navy H 1984-1990
Morris, IL Marines H 2013
Morris, IL Army H 1964-1968
Joliet, IL Navy H 1940- 1961 Died April 2000
Morris, IL Army H 1942-1946 Died Nov. 14, 2007
Joliet, IL Navy H 1968-1972
Morris, IL Navy H 1971-1974
LaSalle/Morris, IL Coast Guard H 1948-52
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Mark J. Sajnaj
Michael G. Sajnaj, Jr.
Michael G. Sajnaj
Eric Sampson
Gordon Sampson
Orville L. “Bud” Sampson
Ronald Sampson
Siegel Sampson
David Sandeno
Morris, IL Air Force H 1985-1989
Morris, IL Navy H 2006-present
Morris, IL Navy Seabees H 1980-89
Morris, I L Air Force H 1983-87, 1990-2010 Retired
Morris, IL Navy H 1945-1947 Died Dec. 21, 2017
Morris, IL Army Air Corp. H 1943-45 Died May 29, 1998
Morris, IL Marines H 1943-1945 Died Dec. 25, 2008
Morris, IL Marines H 1917-1918 WW1
Mazon/Verona, IL Army H 1969-1970
John R. Sanders, Jr.
John R. Sanders
Kevin Sanders
Dario E. Sarti
Erica Sarti
Hannibal J. “Nibs” Sarti
Jared Sarti
Ralph Sassenger
James E. Satorius
Morris, IL Army H 1967-1970
Chicago, IL Navy H 1942-1945
Morris, IL Army H 1981-present
Morris, IL Army H 1942-1945 Died Jan. 9, 1994
Tucson, AZ Army H 2007-2011
Morris, IL Army H 1941-1945 Died Jan. 31, 1991
Morris, IL Army H 2013-present
Morris, IL Army H 1966-1968
Minooka, IL Marines H 1966-1972
Dean L. Savage
Dennis Scaman
Ken Scaman
William Scerine
John F. Schimandle
John J. Schimandle
Wayne Schlappi
Louis Schmidberger Joliet, IL Navy H 1957-1959
Douglas Schmidt
Maquoketa, IA Navy H 1977-1983
Richard N. Scorby
Paul F. Scott
Gardner, IL Army H 1942-1943 Died Sept. 3, 1985
Morris, IL Army H 1972-1981
Morris, IL Army H 1951-1953 Died Feb. 5, 2016
Coal City, IL Marines H 1957-1960
Coal City, IL Army H WWII Died March 7, 1964
Coal City, IL Army H 1968-1974 Died Jan. 8, 2007
Morris, IL Army H 1952-1954
Bradley Schmitt
Don Schmitz
Joe Schmitz
Jeremy Schou
Chris Schreiner
Robert E. Schwiesow
Robert G. Schwiesow
Morris, IL Air Force H 1991-present
Morris, IL Army H 1951-1953
Streator, IL Navy H 1960-1964
Dwight, IL Nat’l Guard H 2004-2011
Dwight, IL Marines H 2006-2011
Morris, IL Army H 2008-2011
Morris, IL Army H 1967-1969
Coal City, IL Navy H 1952-1956 Died Sept. 24, 2002
Morris, IL Navy H 1983-1987
Dale Scubic
Aaron Seabert
Richard Sebby
Kenneth W. Seidler
Kyle Senard
Terry Sengewald
Frank L. Sereno
Kenneth E. Sereno
Michael Sereno
Coal City, IL Army H 1966-1968
Terre Haute, IN Army H 2001-present
Coal City, IL Navy H 2005-2011
Chicago, IL Army Air Force H 1944-46 Died April 16, 2006
Dwight, IL Army H active
Morris, IL Marines H 1967-1971
Mazon, IL Army Air Corp H 1943-1945
Morris, IL Army H 1944-1946
Mazon, IL Navy H 2002-present
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Ryan Shannon
Thomas Sheahan
Jeffrey S. Sheedy
Willard Sheedy, Jr.
Michael W. Shelton
Donald J. Shenbarger
Timothy Shenberg
Chuck Shepherd
Morris, IL Marines H 1943-1946 Died Dec. 31, 1989
Morris, IL Navy H 2008-2016
Morris, IL Army H 1954-1956 Died Dec. 10, 2006
Morris, IL Navy H 1965-1969 Died Nov. 15, 1975
Morris, IL Army H 1942-1945 Died Feb. 17, 2007
Marseilles, IL Army H 1968-1971
Channahon, IL Navy H 1967-1972
Morris, IL Army H 2006-2010
Minooka, IL Army H 1967-1973
Colin Michael Sheridan
Michael Thomas Sheridan
Alfred Shewmake
Bernard “Art” Shewmake
Donald Shewmake
Jim Shewmake
Rich Shewmake
Walter Shewmake
Jerry Shirtino, Jr.
Coal City, IL Navy H 2007-present
Carbon Hill, IL Army Air Corp. H 1943-46 Died Oct. 8, 1994
Morris, IL Army H 1941-1944 Died 1953
Pasadena, CA Navy H 1941-1944 Died 1988
Chicago, IL Army H 1941-1944 Died 1995
Joliet, IL Army H 1942-1944 Died 1996
Chicago, IL Air Force H 1942-1944 Died 1981
Salt Lake City, UT Army H 1942-1944 Died Jan. 29, 2003
Coal City, IL Marines H 2010-present
M. J. (Peg) Sjostrom
Bennie Sklut
Alan Skwarczynski
Sheila Skwira
Bruce Lane Smith
Clarence Sisk Kinsman, IL Army H WWII Died 1966
Russell Shostrom Mazon, IL Army H 1942-1946 Died Nov. 20, 1965
Frank Smith, Jr.
George P. Shugart
Mark Allen Simons
Morris, IL Army H 1951-1952 Died Aug. 26, 1998
Morris, IL Navy H 1987-1995 Died Sept. 5, 2013
Henry A. Smith
Jeffrey Smith
Jim Smith
Morris, IL Army H 1950-1953
Morris, IL Air Force H 1942-1945 Died April 6, 2001
Minooka, IL Army H 1969-1970
Las Cruces, NM WAC H 1966-1969
Morris, IL Navy H 1964-1968
John K. Smith
Mark H. Smith
Melvin A. Smith
William “Buzzy” Smith
Richard Sohan
Morris, IL Navy H 1944-1946
Minooka, IL Air Force H 1943-1945 Died Dec. 16, 1993
Minooka, IL Navy H 1986-1994
Morris, IL Army H WWII Died Dec. 12, 1962
Plainfield, IL Navy H 1950-1954
Sparta, VA Air Force H 1998-present
South Wilmington, IL Army H 1956-1958
Coal City, IL Navy Seabee H 1943-45 Died March 21, 1964
Morris, IL Army H 1963-1965
Wayne Sorensen
Gina Spandet
Alan P. Spangler
Charlie Sparrow
Kyle Sparrow
Paul Sparrow
Tara Sparrow
Daniel F. Spencer
Neal “Corky” Spencer
So. Wilmington, IL Army H 1942-1945 Died Aug. 22, 2014
Dwight, IL Nat’l Guard H active
Lockport, IL Army H 1953-1955 Died March 1, 2007
Morris, IL Marines H 1968-1972
Mazon, IL Army H 2001-2005
Mazon, IL Navy H 1995-2001
Florence, AL Army H 2002-2006
Morris, IL Navy H 1944-1945 Died 1986
Morris, IL Navy H 1966-1970
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Bruce E. Southcombe
P. Douglas Splain
Philip E. Splain
Paul Sprole
William Steele
Robert Stangland
Robert Thomas Stansberry Morris, IL Army H 1942-1946
Morris, IL Marines H 1976-1984
Morris, IL Navy H 1943-1946 Died Jan. 2000
Queen City, MO Army H 1940-1943 MIA April 11, 1943
Matthew J. Steurer
Walter Stott
Robert Strandell
Michael Strange
Morris, IL Army H 1943-1946
Morris, IL Air Force H 1974-1978 Died March 9, 1990
Morris, IL Navy H 1964-1968 Died May 31, 1970
Morris, IL Navy H 1969-1975
Morris, IL Air Force H 1944-1945
Arthur E. Steffes, Jr.
Joel Steichen
Donald W. Sterritt, Jr.
Doug Sterritt
Donald W. Sterritt, Sr.
Emery (Jack) Steen
Mark W. Steen
Morris, IL Army H 1946-1948 Died May 21, 1948
Dwight, IL Marines H 2003-2007
Morris, IL Air Force H 1966-1970
Morris, IL Air Force H 1996-2006 Reserves H active
Morris, IL Army H WWII Died July 12, 2000
Dwight, IL Marines H active
Morris, IL Army H 1941-1945 Died Nov. 1974
Morris, IL Army RetSFC H 19742015
Morris, IL Marines H 1981-1985
Robert Strange, Sr.
Joseph Struck
Theodore Struck
Michael Stuckey
Simon Sulaica, Jr.
Hezzie Summitt
Kristopher Surber
James A. Susan
James Sutton
Kewanee, IL Marines H 1957-1960
Morris, IL Army AirborneH1944-46 Died Oct. 31, 1999
Morris, IL Army H 1943-1945 Died Jan. 13, 2011
Morris, IL Navy H 1968-1977
Toledo, OH Marines H 1962-1968 Died May 25, 2010
Sims, AK Army H 1944-1945
Morris, IL Army H 2009-present
Morris, IL Army H 1969-1972
Dwight, IL Air Force H 1990-2010
Charles “Chuck” Suydam
Ernest W. Swanson
Josiah Swanson
Daniel Swiggett
Jeff L. Swiggett
Barney A. Taylor
Joseph L. Taylor
Jeremy Teague
Ladd Tedford
Coal City, IL Army H 1941-1945 Died March 10, 1990
Coal City, IL Navy H 1944-1946 Died Feb. 13, 2000
Newark, IL Army Reserves H 2009
Morris, IL Army H 2002-2007
Morris, IL Army H 1982-1985
Morris, IL Navy H 1964-1967 Died Nov. 1, 1988
Morris, IL Navy H 1996-2000
Braidwood, IL Marines H 2000-2004
Morris, IL Air Force H 1946-1948 Died 1983
Gerald R. Terando
Joshua A. Terando
Donald E. Terry
Justin Terry
Ronald L. Terry
James E. Testa
Herbert J. Thom
Absher Thomas
George Thomas
Morris, IL Army H 1969-1992
Morris, IL Army H 1998-01, 2005 KIA Nov. 10, 2005
Morris, IL Marines H 1944-1945 Died 1945
Seneca, IL Marines H 1995-1999
Seneca, IL Marines H 1966-1968
Coal City, IL Air Force H 1954-1957 Died June 26, 2010
Coal City, IL Navy H 1944-1963 Died 1980
Strawn, IL Army H 1942-WWII Died Sept. 20, 2009
Morris, IL Navy H 1946-1948
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Morris, IL Air Corp. H 1953-1957
Seth Thomas
William Thomas
Alden C. Thompson
Glenn Thompson
Morris, IL Marines H1953-1957 Deceased
Jerome Thompson
Lavern Thompson
Melvin Thompson
Milton Thompson
Thomas A. Thompson
Morris, IL Navy H 1943-1945 Deceased
Morris, IL MarinesH1943-45, 50-52 Died March 29, 1997
Morris, IL Navy H 1943-1946
Morris, IL Air Force H 1943-1946
Morris, IL Army H 1967-1969
Cyril T. Thorson
Dennis Thorson
Duanne Thorson
Edward Thorson
Emmett L. Thorson
Lockport, IL Army H 2013-present
Seneca, IL Army H 1969-Viet Nam
Morris, IL Army H 1944-1946 Died May 27, 2015
Wayne Thompson
John R. Thorsen Morris, IL H Army H
Alvin G. Thorson
Morris, IL Army H 1942-1945 Died March 26, 1969
Morris, IL Navy H 1970-1976
Morris, IL Army H 1942-1946 Died June 4, 1999
Morris, IL Air Force H 1969-1972 Died Sept. 10, 2013
Seneca, IL Army H 1983-1998
Morris, IL Army H 1965-1967
Mazon, IL Army Air CorpH1942-1945 Died April 8, 1990
Glenn Thorson
H. Dale Thorson
Jeffrey Thorson
Ken Thorson
Otto Thorson Morris, IL H Army H Died 1947
Robert Thorson
Dwight, IL Army H 1965-1967
“Georgie Glenn” Threewitt Benton, IL Navy H 1954-1962 Died Sept. 25, 2008
David Tinsley
Yorkville, IL Army H 1971-1977
Joey Todd
Dwight, IL Navy H 2004-2008
Chris Travis
Donald Treadway
Wayne Trenter
Elwyn A. Trotter
Parry Tuggle
Morris, IL Navy H 1945-1946 Deceased
Byron A. Thorson
Morris, IL Army H 1943-1946
Morris, IL Army H 1951-1952 Died April 3, 2000
Morris, IL Navy H 1992-2013 Died Oct. 11, 2013
Morris, IL Army Reserves H 1960-1966
David M. Togliatti
Michael J. Togliatti
Alvin J. Torkelson
Brian Trainor
Coal City, IL Army H 1965-1967
Coal City, IL Marines H 1942-1946 Died Nov. 30, 1973
Channahon, IL Army H 1942-1946 Died Feb. 6, 2006
Dwight, IL Marines H 2002-2008
Dwight, IL Army H active
Mazon, IL Army H 1955-1958 Died March 22, 1998
Morris, IL Army H 1951-1954 Died June 24, 1993
Coal City/Morris, IL Army H 1941-1946
Morris, IL Air Force H 1961-1962
Charles Turner
Marvin Tyler
Edward Unger
Tony Unger
Tim Urbanik
Gordon K. Vaksdal
Richard L. Valerio
Donald C. Valiente
William B. Vallow
Butler, IL Army H 1944-1946 Died June 8, 1998
Coal City, IL Navy H 1942-1945 Died Sept. 10, 2003
Coal City, IL Army H 1942-1945 Died June 29, 2002
Coal City, IL Coast Guard H 1942-46 Died May 3, 2006
Joliet IL Army H 1963-1966
Morris, IL Army H 1946-1948
Mazon, IL Air Force H 1973-0983
Coal City, IL Army H 1941-1945 Died Feb. 7, 2005
Kinmundy/Morris, IL Army H 1952-1954 Died July 17, 2014
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Clay C. Van Tassel
Ralph Vanden
Conrad Vandervort
Gene Vandervort
Willard E. Vaughn
Barton W. Vest
Robert J. Viano
James Vick
Edwin P. Viglia, Sr.
Morris, IL Army H 1942-1946 Died Oct. 11, 1986
Morris, IL Marines H 1943-1946 Died Jan. 18, 1990
Oswego, IL Marines H 1962-1966 Died May 12, 2001
Carbon Hill, IL Marines H 1957-1960
Rushville, IL Air Force H WWII, Korean War Died March 20, 2000
Gardner, IL Navy H 1961-1965
Coal City, IL Navy H 1944-1946 Died March 30, 1993
Dwight, IL Army H active
Braidwood, IL Army H 1941-1945 Died Feb. 22, 2015
Sigurd S. Viland
James Vilt
Joseph Vilt
Kenneth W. Vilt
Kenneth J. Vlk
Thomas Vodacek
George Voelcker
Russell F. Vogen
John Vota
Morris, IL Army H 1941-1945 Died June 11, 2005
Coal City, IL Army H 1968-1969 Died Jan. 2, 2013
Coal City, IL Navy H 1942-1946 Died March 2, 2004
Coal City, IL Army H 1959-1962 Died March 24, 1993
Coal City, IL Army H 1963-1965 Died April 9, 2013
Mazon, IL Army H 1943-1945 Died June 8, 1991
Morris, IL Army Air ForceH1941-1945 Died June 12, 2006
Newark, IL Army H 1942-1945 Died Nov. 5, 2006
Coal City, IL Army Air Force H 1942-46 Died March 21, 2008
D. Duane Waisath
George C. Walczak
Daniel M. Walker
James Walsh
James E. Walsh
Thomas E. “Ed” Walsh
William “Bill” Walsh
William Wando
William T. Warren
East St. Louis, IL Navy Aviation H 1950-1954
Chicago, IL 82nd Airborne H 1943-1946
Morris, IL Air Force H 2000-2005 Died Nov. 27, 2005
Mazon, IL Marines H 2004-2008
Coal City, IL Navy H 1945-1946 Died June 5, 2008
Morris, IL Army H 1942-1945 Died Nov. 2, 2018
Verona, IL Navy H 1942-1946 Died July 14, 1979
Dwight, IL Marines H active
Morris, IL Air Force H 1940-1964 Died June 2, 1964
Clay Webb
Conrad Weitz
Harry S. Watters
Ritchie, IL Army H 1941-1945
Robert W. Warrick
Edward Washburn
Eric Washburn
Paul E. Washburn
Richard A. Washburn
Robert Washburn
Morris, IL Coast Guard H 1945-1946 Died Feb. 26, 2009
Coal City, IL Navy H 1943-1945 Died March 30, 1995
Morris, IL Navy H 1982-1986
Morris, IL Army H 1953-1955
Morris, IL Air Force H 1959-1966
Morris, IL Army H 1943-1945 Died Jan. 2, 1999
Frank W. Welch
Herman F. Welch
Dave Welsh
Douglas Welsh
Theodore L. Wendell
Terry Wenger
Dwight, IL Air Force H 1942-1946 Died June 14, 2009
Morris, IL Navy H 1944-1946
Mazon, IL Army H 1966-1971
Mazon, IL Navy H 1943-1945 Died 1957
Channahon, IL Army H 1944-1945 Died Jan. 26, 1986
Dwight, IL Air Force H active
Melvin P. Werden
Morris, IL Army H 1957-1959
Coal City, IL Marines H 1982-present
Morris, IL Army H 1942-1946 Died Sept. 20, 1980
Charles Whitaker
Eric White
Morris, IL Navy H 1964-1967
Gardner, IL Marines H 1993-1997 Died Aug. 28, 2004
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Harry L. Wickman
Lawrence W. Wickman
Lisa Wickman
Steven P. Wickman
Nicholas R. Wickman
Jerry Howard Wicks
Matthew Wilkey
Robert D. Wilkinson
Gardner, IL Air Force H 1969-1973
Morris, IL Navy H 1944-1947
Coal City, IL Navy H 1943-1947 Died Aug. 8, 2010
Morris, IL Navy H 2001-2006
Morris, IL Navy H 2002-2013
Morris, IL Navy H 1974-1980 Died June 4, 1993
Morris, IL Army H 1968-1969 Died Sept. 19, 1969
Dwight, IL Marines H active
Mazon, IL Army, Retired H 1946-70
Leslie Willis
“Pete” Willis
Robert Willis
Rudy Willis, II
Rudolph Willis
Donald Lloyd Wills
Kendall Wills
Lloyd Wills
Stephen D. Wills
Plainfield, IL Navy H 1951-1953 Died Sept. 2008
Braidwood, IL Army H 1951-1953
Godley, IL Air Force H 1951-1953
Morris, IL Army H 1979-1983 Died Oct. 16, 1994
Morris, IL Marines H 1952-1954 Died Sept. 6, 2004
Morris, IL Army H 1966-1968
Kempton, IL Navy H 2017-2021
Morris, IL Army H 1944-1946 Died Nov. 2, 2008
Morris, IL Marines H 1988-1993
Ronald Wilson
Richard Winsor
Edwin D. Witt
Donald L. Woodward
Leonard J. Wozniak
Francis E. Wren, Jr.
Jason Wren
Ronald Wren
Jason G. Wright
So. Wilmington, IL Army H 1944 Died 1944
Morris, IL Air Force H 1965-1989
Mazon, IL Army H 1945-1947 Died Jan. 1998
Morris, IL Army H 1945-1951 Died Feb. 4, 1975
Chicago, IL Army Air Corp. H 1942-43 MIA 1943, found 1972
Coal City, IL Army H 1964-1966 Died March 4, 2014
Coal City, IL Army H 1997-2001
Coal City, IL Army H 1969-1971
Morris, IL Marines H 2004-2009
Archie Wynen
Allan Yarmer
Mello Yarmer
Michelle L. Yarmer
Elmo Ray Younger
Edward Zelinko, Sr.
James Zelinko, Sr.
Fred Wurst, Sr.
Ojibwa, WI Navy H 1943-1945
Fred Wurst, Jr.
Peotone, IL Army H 1969-1971
John Robert Zelko III
Morris, IL Army H 2006-2008
Harley D. Zhe
Morris, IL Army H 1952-1953
Long Beach, CA Army H 1968-1971 Died July 7, 2014
Plainfield, IL Navy H 1977-1983
Galatia, KS Army Air Corp. H 1942-46 Died Jan. 25, 1978
Verona, IL Navy H 2001-2009
Morris, IL Army H 1942-1946
Coal City, IL Army H 1942-1945
Norman E. Ziegler
Ronald Ziegler
Chris Zierman
Clarence R. Zingre
Harry Zitzka
G. G. Zullo
Morris, IL Army H 1941-1945 Died May 9, 2003
James Zumbahlen
Morris, IL Army H 1969-1971
Morris, IL Air Force H 1943-1947 Died Sept. 30, 2011
Morris, IL Marines H 2001-2004
Morris, IL Army H 1942-1945 Died March 13, 2011
Gene Funk
Morris, IL Army H 1960 - 1963
Morris, IL Army H 1951-1952
Morris, IL Army H 1964-1966 Died March 27, 1996
Coal City, IL Army H 1968-1970
Nicholas Zullo
Morris, IL Air Force H 1960-1964
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Veteran Service Organizations AMVETS Post 53
274-1686 veterans1953@gmail.com call for meeting day and location
Chief Shabbona Chapter 86 PO Box 662, Morris 3rd Wednesday, 7:00 PM
Danner-Madsen American Legion Post 663 426 Industry Ave, Gardner 237-2747 2nd Tuesday, 7:00 PM
John Martin Steele VFW Post 6049
Mazon American Legion Post 352
La Societe de 40 Hommes et 8 Cheveaux Voiture 1195
Minooka American Legion Post 1188
Marine Corp League Grundy County Detachment #1372
Morris American Legion Post 294
309 E. McKinley Street, Morris 942-0605 2nd Wednesday, 7:00 PM
locale1195morris@gmail.com 4th Monday, 6:00 PM
212 W Washington Street, Morris gcmcl1372@gmail.com 4th Thursday, 7:00 PM
500 Depot Street, Mazon 448-2550 mal352@att.net 1st Thursday in March, June, September & December, 7:00 PM
PO Box 278, Minooka legionpost1188@hotmail.com 2nd Thursday, 7:00 PM
212 W Washington Street, Morris 942-0183 morrislegionpost294@yahoo.com 3rd Thursday, 7:00 PM
Saint Juvin VFW Post 1336 PO Box 191, Coal City 1st Sunday, 1:00 PM
SM-CL1932425
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