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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

Maria Acevedo Morris, IL Air Force H 1974-1979, 1982-1985

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Kenneth Allen

John Adams

Charles Akin

Colt P. Aldrich

Edward R. Aldrich

Nickalous N. Aldrich

Wyatt A. Aldrich

Jon Allen

Coal City, IL Army H 1942-1945 Died April 30, 2001

Morris, IL Army H 1963-1969

Verona, IL Army National Guard H 2018-present

Morris, IL Army H 1968-1971

Aurora, IL Navy H 1943-1946 Died Sept. 29, 2011

Amarillo, TX MarinesH 2004 Died Aug. 27, 2004

Verona, IL Army National Guard H 2016-present

South Wilmington, IL Army H 1969-1971

Lester Allen

Richard J. Allen

Bryanna Andersen

Brooklyn Baudino Anderson Morris, IL Army H 2016-present

Ariel Anderson

Morris, IL Army H 1942-1945 Died Nov. 26, 2008

Carl E. Anderson

Fort Dodge, IA Army Air Corp. H 1941-45 Died Oct. 21, 2001

Dan Anderson

Coal City, IL Army  1962-1963

Daniel Anderson

Dwight, IL Marines H 2005-2010

Rolf Anderson

Vernon Anderson

William R. Anderson

Ronald Andrae

Raymond R. Andreae

Coal City, IL Army H 1952

South Wilmington, IL Navy H 1943-1946

Livingston, CA Navy H1965-1971

Minooka, IL Army H 2007-present

Glen Anderson

Kevin Anderson

Paul A. Anderson

Ralph Anderson

Lisbon, IL Army H 1941-1945

Morris, IL Navy H 1985-1989

Morris, IL Army H 1942-1945 Died June 8, 2011

Seneca, IL Army H 1943-1945

Lisbon, IL Army H 1953-1955

Seneca, IL Army H 1941-1945 Died June 27, 2005

Wilmington, IL Navy H 1974-1995

Barrington, IL Navy H 1955-1959 Died Oct. 1, 2010

Morris, IL Army H 1954-1956

Norman H. Appleton

Ken Arnesonv

Robert L. Arnsdorff

Lloyd Arthur

Robert Ashbaugh

Alfred Austino

Kirk Babcock

Lowell Babcock

Max M. Babcock

Coal City, IL Marines H 1953-1956 Died May 29, 2011

Morris, IL Navy H 1946-1948

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Verona, IL Navy H 1945-1946 Died April 16, 2007

Verona, IL Navy H 1965-1970 Deceased

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Morris, IL Army H 1951-1953 Died Jan. 12, 2010

Morris, IL Army H 1960-1966 Died Aug. 20, 2012

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By JON RINGER Special to the Morris Herald-News In 1870 The Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad began to build a line through the Allegheny Mountains, An early challenge was building the Big Bend Tunnel. They hired men to hammer drill bits into the stone. Then, they would remove the drill bits, fill the holes with explosives, and blast the stone to prepare the right of way, Also, in 1870, the steam drill was invented.

Eventually the time arrived for the drill to replace the “steel drivin’ men”. And the Legend of John Henry was born. The story tells us that John Henry was the “best of the best” steel drivers, and a contest was arranged between him and the steam drill.

In the short run, John was the better. But the tireless steam drill eventually won. John Henry died trying, and technology conquered.

In 1968, ten of us were with a field artillery unit in the jungle near the Cambodian border.

We had two shifts of five and worked “8 hours on, 8 hours off “ around the clock and around the calendar. 84 hours a week in good times.

More when necessary. While five slept in one bunker, the other five worked in the Fire Direction Control bunker.

In July, a helicopter landed at our remote base, and two soldiers brought a sturdy table to the work bunker. Then they brought in a heavy box. Inside was a large computer.... it was about 4 cubic feet in size. And it weighed as much as an 8” artilery shell. Think about a computer. 54 years ago. In the jungle. That’s like Ben Franklin wearing a Rolex or Abe Lincoln on Tik Tok..

It was hooked up to the generator, and we received a crash course on its operation. In the past, we had used 2 guys to plot the target, one guy to man the radio to the target observer and to the big guns, and 2 more to do the calculation of data. Now the calculations would be done by one man’s brain and one guy operating the computer. When the two matched numbers, we were ready to load a 200 pound shell and let it rip. We needed to be very accurate because the shell was guaranteed to kill anything within a 100 meter radius of impact. “Give us a call and watch the rounds fall... from a safe distance.”

The computer had a name. FADAC (an acronym for Field Artillery Digital Automatic Computer). FADAC was very good. It came up with the same answers we did. Or close enough. It would calculate the general compass direction to the target (azmuth), the specilfic correction (deflection), the elevation of the barrel (quadrant), the amount of powder needed to hurl the shell there (charge), the fuse on the shell (impact, height of burst, or concrete piercing), and the effect weather had on the shell every thousand feet going up and every thousand feet coming down (the metro). And... it could do it in

a minute or less!

The only problem was that we could do the same things manually in about 30 seconds. So, the five of us would pour a cup of coffee and tell jokes while we waited for FADAC to take his sweet time.

Sometimes this was not a huge problem.

Sometimes. But in August of 1968, the VC and

puter. We found out his full name was Freddy Fadac. He was born in 1956 and officially joined the Army in 1961. He was a pretty good soldier and didn’t eat much. No sense of humor.

I have always had a resistence to technology. I am best described as an “old techno idiot”, and the tag doesn’t annoy me. I subscibe to the practice of “elevating my faults to principles and congratulating myself for practicing them”. If they had closed the Patent Office right after the Steamboat and Cotton Gin were invented, I probably would be just fine.

Maybe throw in the Big Ten Channel...

The brain trust that operated FADAC (after 43 days with very little food). Left to Right and top to bottom: Jim, but that’s it.

Tom, Mike… Slim, Jon, Carl.

The guys who worked in that Fire Direction Control bunker were really remarkaNVA determined that our firebase was annoying ble. They were very bright because that was a them and decided to take us out. It started with requirement for the job (the Army threw me in increased mortar attacks and grew dailly. We with a batch of good ones). We had great chemhad 43 days of what I called a “siege” (I have a istry and worked well in both calm and turmoil. limited vocabulary). In those six weeks, we took During times of chaos, I am still amazed by their over 300 mortar attacks, small arms fire and steady demeanor and sense of humor. ground assaults, and even an effort to tunnel We have since lived our lives. Even held a under our defenses with the purpose of emerghalf dozen reunions and laughed like the brothing inside our small compound. ers we are. We had several memorable days in We went from cooked food to C Rations to that war, but those 43 days were the six weeks pretty much nothing. And we took casualties. where we all paid our taxes.

Out of 99 men assigned to Alpha Battery, the John Henry was a steel drivin’ man, Lord, official record said 33 were wounded or killed.

Lord, But, in his ultimate challenge he was bet(Many years later, I found another guy who still tered by technology. It was inevitable. carries shrapnel from then and didn’t report it God bless all who serve and have served. because others were hurt more. Make it 34.)

On this Veterans’ Day and all days forward.

But, the amazing part was that A Battery kept Artillery has evolved from the catapult to the pumping out support rounds for other troops cannon ball to long range precise weaponry. in distress. It was incredibly dangerous for the Today’s artilley rounds are completely generatcrews on the guns. They had little to no proteced by computers and automation. It is incremention from incoming rounds. (Having stood on the tally faster and more accurate. “Incrementally” is breech during a few firing missions, I will attest the word I choose because we were incredibly to the anxiety and peril.) accurate, and our gun crews were fast. The The concerted 43 day effort to eliminate us men of A Battery could put an 8 inch round into ended with Tac Air dropping 500 pound bombs, your back pocket from 12 miles away. If you Snoopy miniguns, and Cobra helicopters wore big pants. The result was similar to today, playing a concert of beautiful sounds to relieve but today’s computers eliminate the liability and our distress. Everyone was tired, dirty, hungry. slightly improve the time.

Everyone but PFC FADAC. We decided he was For 43 days in 1968... in Tay Ninh Province, just a bit too slow for us and let him take the Vietnam....ten confident, smart, composed kids time off. And there was no high ranking officer were the “steel drivin’ men”. And, in our ultimate around for those six weeks to make us use him. challenge, we were better than the machine.

But, we did learn to coexist with the comLord, Lord.

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Steel Drivin’ Men

The FADAC computer and SP/5 Carl Miller. Computers have changed dramatically since 1968. But, I recently had lunch with Carl and he remains the same good guy.

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Verne E. Babcock

Elwyn Baker

Aloysius Ballun

Arthur Ronald Barker 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 Air Force H 1959-1965 Died Feb. 2011

Mazon, IL Army H 19v44-1946

Elwood, IL Army H 1943-1946 Died Aug. 25, 1991

Stockton, IL Army H 1958-1960

Louis Barla

Rob Barla

Edward D. Basham

Matthew D. Basham

Robert Barkley

Andy Barla

Marshall L. Bardell

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

Morris, IL Army H 1966-1968

Morris, IL Army H 1968-1970

Braidwood, IL Army H 1965 – 1967 Died June 24, 2019

Richard Becker

Dalton R. Bednarik

Edward R. Bednarik

Gerald Bednarik

Harry Behrens

Donald Bekker

Grevgory L. Bell

Brian Barla

Jerry Barla

Seneca, IL Navy H 1985-1989

Seneca, IL Navy H 1956-1959

Jeff Beck

Todd Beck

Morris, IL Army H 1972-1975

Morris, IL Navy H 2009-2015

Harold Bell

Kenneth Bell

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

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

Robert Bell

Ronald L. Bell

Gerald Belt

Ronald K. Belt

Charles L. Benbrooks

Earl Benge

George S. Benger

Butch Benson

Clarence Benson

Morris, IL Army H 1951-1953 Died Aug. 4, 1972

Morris, IL Marines H 1952-1953

Morris, IL Army H 1957-1959

Morris, IL Navy H 1944-1946 Died March 21, 1970

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

Earl Benson

Ed Benson

George Keith Benson II

Ronald Benson

Sven Benson

John Berg

Orland Berg

John Bertot

Dennis Best

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

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

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Edward Beyer

Joseph A. Bien

Jospeh P. Bien

Alvin Biros

Michael Biros

August Black

Brian Black

Robert “Bob” Blaine

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, v2004

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

John A. Blake

Warren Blavke

William “Bud” Blake

William L. Blake

Stephen V. Bliefield

Micheal W. Bogart

Bruce A. Boling

Leon Bonneur

Robert Borgstrom

Morris, IL Army Air Corp. H 1946-47 Died Feb. 5, 2002

Morris, IL Army H 1945-1946 Died June 30, 2011

Morris, IL Army H 1944-1946 Died Oct. 21, 2006

Morris, IL Calvary Vet Corp.H1918-1919 Died May 26, 1973

Verona, IL Air Force H 2008-present

Joliet, IL Marines H 1973-1977

Mazon, IL Air Force H 1991-present

GRUNDY COUNTY

Veterans Assistance Commission Promoting the Welfare of Honorably Discharged Veterans

The GCVAC offers free assistance with federal, state and local veterans benefits such as: • • • • • • • •

Enrollment in the VA health care system VA disability compensation & pension claims Non-emergency transportation to Hines and the Joliet clinic Financial assistance for veterans with basic needs VA educational benefits (GI Bill) Burial benefits Surviving spouse programs Military record retrieval / discharge documents / Ribbons & medals replacement • Referral to other programs & services in Grundy County • ALL GCVAC programs and services are FREE, and are managed by accredited VSO’s.

For more info call 815-941-3152 or email: vac@grundycountyil.gov

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George Bexson

Bob Born

Brad Born

Don Born

Ervin Born

John Born

Ray Born

William Boswell

Bernard Bounds

Richard Bradley

Coal City, IL Marines H 1973-1977

Coal City, IL Air Force H 1971-1975

Coal City, IL Marines H 1943-1946 Died Dec. 15, 2006

Coal City, IL Army H 1942-1946 Died June 1, 2009

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

Morris, IL Army H 1942-1945 Died Aug. 18, 2009

Richard L. Bradley

John E. Brady

LeRoy W. Brady

Leroy Brandt

George Brayton

Charles Brehm

Raymond L. Brenczewski

Raymond P. Brenczewski

Hugh Brennan

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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

Morris, IL Navy H 1951-1955

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Joliet, IL Army H 1966-1968

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Grundy County Veteran Service Organizations

By Allison Selk The Grundy County Veteran’s Assistance Commission in Morris has seen growth in veterans served over the past year from 1,300 to 1,446 assisted out of nearly 3,000 registered veterans in the county.

Ken Buck, GCVAC Superintendent said pre-Covid the office saw 10 to 15 new veterans monthly, currently its 5 to 10, which has picked up since last year as well. Grundy County holds 10 active veteran organizations and Buck and assistant superintendent Sarah Fisher work at the center to care for the veterans in Grundy County.

These 10 service organizations include 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 Saint Juvin VFW Post 1336.

Buck said, “The various veteran service organizations have a variety of programs and services, and Illinois statue also allows the veterans

service organizations to provide certain services to veterans, in order to be more effective they are allowed to merge the financial assistance and VA (U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs) claims services into a central office, the VAC. The structure of the VAC is delegates from the veteran service organizations forming the governing board of the commission. Veterans helping veterans.”

For instance, “A good example of this is the need for veterans to get to VA health care facilities in Joliet and Hines, IL. The Grundy County VAC has developed a transportation program to meet this need,” Buck explained.

Saint Juvin VFW Post 1336 Commander Jim Phillips said these 10 organizations offer a band of camaraderie, all have been in some military service and had similar experiences, which creates an immediate bond of brothers and sisters.

In each of the 10 groups, they can be the eyes and ears in the community and understand the needs of the veterans and bring those concerns to the Grundy County VAC meetings, as each group brings delegates to make up the board.

“When we are in the meeting, if something has come up, we have the open forum to discuss it, we share our information,” Phillips said. “And we

do get questions, so send them over to Ken and Sarah, they are the experts since they deal with that all of the time.”

Buck said these groups are important to the community and to join because they not only help locally with community outreach to veterans, scholarships, youth sports and club sponsorship, but help veterans on a national level in the nation’s capital to fight for rights for veterans. Just this year, the PACT Act was passed which allows veterans exposed to burn pits and toxic substances more VA healthcare and benefits. Buck said these local groups send people out to form national groups to lobby and advocate in Washington D.C. in hopes to get laws passed to aid the veterans.

If veterans in Grundy County need specific help with VA navigation or benefits, Buck or Fisher can be contacted for an appointment.

The veteran needs to bring discharge information, DD214 forms, and they can work on assistance to the veteran-even surviving spouses may be eligible for benefits with the DD214 paperwork.

“We help recent returnees all the way up to World War II veterans-all generations,” Buck said.

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American Legion Riders Steve Peterson and Mike Stuckey make a donation of collected items to the veterans in the LaSalle VA Nursing home. The riders collect items and give them to the residents of the home annually, such as socks, sweats, diet pop, shampoo, and items that the nursing home needs for the residents.

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Scott Breslar

Andrew R. Brewer

Andrew W. Brian

Donald E. Bright

Lonnie Briley

Walter D. Britz

Joe Brochman

Rhode J. Bronk

Robert E. Brooks I

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

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 1939-1945 Died March 14, 1963

William L. Brooks

John Broucek

George Brown

Robert D. Brown

Robert E. Brown

Nate Buck

Bruce Burkhart

Melvin Butler

Charles G. Butterfield, Sr.

Kenneth E. Bunker

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

Morris IL Air ForceH1943-46, 1950-51 Died Sept. 1987

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

William Butterfield

Emil Buberle

Charles L. Bumgardner

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

Morris, IL Army H 1941-1945 Died Aug. 24, 1972

Francis A. Bunton

John Patrick Bunton

Jeff Alan Burchfield

Jeff Alan Burchfield

Coal City, IL Navy H 1944-1945 Died April 19, 1966

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Carl B. Burkett

Arthur Burns

Walter Burns

Plano, IL Navy H 1963-1967

Morris, IL Navy H 1942-1945 Died Jan. 1, 1999

Coal City, IL Army Air Corps, WWII H 1942-1945 Died Jan. 10, 2002

Coal City, IL Army WWII H 1942-1945 Died Nov. 12, 2004

Danny Cain

Charles Callahan

Daniel Callahan

James P. Campbell

James Butz

Morris, IL Air Force H 1943-1945 Died June 15, 2007

Catherine A. Canik

Agnes LaDelle Byers

Robert A. Byers

Jack Cacello

Pete Cacello

Braceville, IL Navy H 1943-1945 Died 2010

Braceville, IL Marines H 1943-1945 Died 2002

South Wilmington, IL Army H 1970-1971

South Wilmington, IL Army H 1941-1945

Edward L. Canik

Paul Canik

Charles L. Carey

Albert “Swede” Carlson

Frank Cheshareck

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

Dwight, IL Army H 1950 - 1952

Brodhead, WI Navy H 1968-1971

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

Leonard S. Carlson

Robert S. Carlson

Eric Carriger

Darrell Catton

Edward J. Cepiel, Sr.

Bridget Lenzie Cermak Coal City, IL IL Nat’l Guard H 1990-1996

Ralph Chamness

Reddick, IL Army H 1942-1945 Died June 2006

Ralph T. Chandler

Morris, IL Army H 1942-1945 Died 1980

Morris, IL Marines H 1953-1955 Died July 7, 2009

Ron Cingrani

John Clampitt

Evan E. Clark

Candace M. Clay

Kinsman, IL Air ForceH1941-45, 52-53 Died Feb. 1998

Morris, IL Marines H 1969-1972

Chapin, IL Marines H 2006-2011

Morris, IL Navy H 1979-1994

Morris, IL Army H 1951-1953 Died June 20, 2011

Louis Bernard Cheshareck

William Cheshareck

Willie Cheshareck

Richard “Riz” Chouinard

Milford Christianson

Morris, IL Navy H 1943-1945 Died May 6, 2001

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

Morris, IL Army H 1943-1945 Died March 6, 2002

Gardner, IL Army H 1955-1957

Minooka, IL Navy H 2002-2013

Christine M. Clay

Matthew R. Clay

Chester Claypool

Jared Claypool

John LeRoy Claypool

Lester Claypool

Rodney A. Clements

Jack Cobb

Robert E. Cohenour

Minooka, IL Navy H 2005-2010

Minooka, IL Marines H 2004-2013

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

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

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Gene Burd

Bob Coleman

Noble E. Collins

Morris, IL Army H 1961-1967

Minooka, IL Army H 1942-1945 Died January 20, 1997

Thomas F. Costello

Douglas Cotter

Morris, IL Navy H 1942-1945 Died July 4, 2003

Morris, IL Army H 1968-1970

Edward “Ted” Conley

Chad Cook

Daniel R. Cook, Sr.

Orin C. Cooper

Clemer Corn

S. Carter Corsello

Joseph Corsello

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

Braidwood, IL Navy H 1942-1947

Morris, IL Army H 1988-2010

Morris, IL Army H 1952-1954

Daniel P. Cox

Dean W. Cox

Robert Craig

Don Crater

Jim Crinister

Walter Cripe

Paul Crisman

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

Morris, IL Army H 1989-1992

Cedar Lake, MN Air Force H 1968-1972

Morris, IL Air Force H 1987-1992 Navy H 2000-2003

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William Cromwell

Andy Cronin

Curtis Cronin

Joshua Crosby

James K. Cryder

Harold H. Cunning

Bill G. Daniels

Curtis Danielson

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

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

Jerome Danielson

Robert Darin

Eugene W. Datti

Bernard C. Davidson

John R. “Jack” Davidson

Maurice R. “Buck” Davidson Morris, IL Army H 1944-1946 Died April 25, 1994

Mark Davis

Joliet, IL Army H 2003-present

Matthew Davis

Joliet, IL Army H 2005-present

Robert Davis

Morris, IL Army H 1962-1964

Elvin Davy

Harry Davy

Neil E. Davy

Juan R. De Leon

Glenn G. Dearth

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

Wesley J. Davis

Ryan P. Davisson

Joseph L. Davito

Lee J. Davito

Morris, IL Navy H 1946-1948 Died Sept. 15, 1991

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

Coal City, IL Army H 1945-1946 Died Nov. 22, 2001

Morris, IL Navy H 1958-1964

Coal City, IL Air Force H 1968-1973

Seguin, TX Army H 1970-1973

Coal City, IL Navy H 1942-1945 Died Sept. 2003

Wilbert J. Dearth

Robert Lee Decker

Gary DeLong

Glenn “Dutch” DeLong Dwight/Streator, IL Marines H Korea Died 1990s

Robert DeLong

Dwight, IL Army H WWII Died 1994

Zachary D. DeLong

Dwight, IL Marines H active

Rob Dettman

Morris, IL Army H 1997-2009

Irving DeWald

Coal City, IL Navy H 1957-1976

Alphonso G. Diaz II

Coal City, IL Army H 1993-1994

Louis A. Dinelli

Mario D. Dinelli

Peter Dinelli

Terry Dingbaum

Tim Dippon

Raymond Dirker

Coal City, IL Army H 1941-1945 Died 1975

Morris, IL Army H 1942-1946 Died June 30, 2019

Dwight, IL Marines H 1968-1970

Alphonso G. Diaz Sr.

John N. Diederich

Albert Dinelli

Coal City, IL Army H 1965-1968

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

Morris, IL Army H 1941-1945 Died April 6, 2003

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Kyle Dite

Louis C. Dite

Owen P. Dite

Raymond Dite

Richard A. Dite

James W. Dolan, Jr.

James Wayne Dolan

Pete Dolan

Terrence Donahue

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

Morris, IL Army H 1991-1996 Died Jan. 20, 1996

Diamond, IL Army H 1953-1956, 1962-1965

Morris, IL Army H 1966-1968

John F. Doran

Andrew J. Downs

Jacob Downs

Michael A. Downs

Bob Drake

Dan Dransfeldt

Robert B. Duket

Carl Eugene Dummitt

Mike Dummitt

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

Morris, IL Army H 1969-1972

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

Henry (Hank) Dyer

Everett Egeland

Roy Egeland

Tyler Eichelberger

Jerry Einhaus, Sr.

Tom Einhaus

Kenneth D. Elberson

Morris, IL Marines H 1964-1988

Dwight, IL Air Force H active

Morris, IL Army H 1943-1945 Died 2007

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

Morris, IL Marines H 1960-1963

Louie Eliakis

Steve A. Eliakis

Derek W. Ellis

Dwayne L. Ellis

Derek Elsey

John R. Ely

Harion Enervold

Harris Enervold

Olaf Enervold

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

Seneca, IL Marines H 1970-1974

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Burdett O. Enger

Matt Enger

Raymond “Bud” Enger 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

Gadsden, TN Army H 1952-1954 Died June 9, 2010

J. Marvin Fannin

Lloyd V. Fannin

Lloyd Fannin

Robert Fararre

John “Louie” Farber

John D. Farrero, Sr.

Richard J. Ferguson

Morris, IL Army H 1956-1958

Morris, IL Navy H 1943-1946 Died June 20, 2005

Morris, IL Marines H 2007-2011

Wilmer “Bill” Falck

Joseph O. Fancher

Ersel Fannin

William English, Jr.

John Enrietta

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

Morris, IL Army H 1949-1952 Died February 24, 2019

Morris, IL Army H 1944-1945 Died 1980

Richard Farrero

Leo Fatlan

Anton H. Favero

Tom Feehan

James R. Feeney, Sr.

Elwood Ferguson

Coal City, IL Army H 1966-1968

Gardner, IL Army H 1942-1945 Died Feb. 21, 2010

Dominic Ferrari

Russell J. Finch

Braceville, IL Army H 1953-1955 Died February 27, 2005

Bill Finfrock

Dale B. Eslinger

Marseilles, IL Army H 1979-1989

Roger Eslinger

O. B. Evans

Morris, IL Marines H 2007-2011

Coal City, IL Navy H 1943-1948 Died Feb. 20, 1990

Russell Ferguson

William M. Ferguson

Morris, IL Navy H 1945-1946 Died 1980

Morris, IL Army H 1941-1945 Died Oct. 28, 1971

Morris, IL Navy H 1945 Army H 1950-1952

Morris, IL Navy Air H 1950-1954

Morris, IL Marines H 1958-1961

Morris, IL Marines H 1951-1953

Daniel Finn

William Finn

Leonard R. Fioritto

Leonard Fioritto

Kevin Fischer

Dale W. Fitch

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

Morris, IL Army H 1968-1970

Gary P. Fitzmaurice

Maurice Fleetwood

Bob Flynn

Rocky L. Flynn

Jules H. Fortin

Dorsey Foster

Nathan Fox

Jessica (Claypool) Franz

Howard Fread

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

Morris, IL Army H 1917-1919 Died 1980–

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William A. Freis

Gerald L. Friant

Glenn Friant

Leonard Friddle

Natalie Friend

Larry J. Frosch

William E. Fruland

Gene Funk

Wayne Gabehart

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

Morris, IL Air Force H 1960-1963

Coal City, IL Korea H Air Force H Air Borne Died 1997

Raymond D. Gaddo

Kevin J. Gaffney

Marvin J. Gagliardo

Jim Gallagher

Michael Gallagher

Norval Galloway

Robert A. Gallup

Gene Gang

Maurice G. Gantzert

Morris, IL Navy H 1979-1983

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 Morris, IL Army H 1952-1954 Died March 1, 2007

Phil Gilbert

Reddick/Gardner, IL Army H 1940-1945 Died Nov. 10, 2006

Bob Gilbertson

Morris, IL Army H 1969-1971

Ralph Gilbertson, Sr. Mazon, IL Army H 1944-1946 Died Nov. 5, 2008

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

Lando Gingerich

Roy Gleen

Edward J. Glenney

Lyle Goff

Keith Golimowski

Michael Golimowski

Ronald Goode

Leonard Don Goodwin

James W. Gonnam

Morris, IL Marines H 1963-1967

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

Kalona, IA Air Force H 1950-1954

Morris, IL Army H 1941-1953 Died Feb. 14, 2005

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

Crestview, FL Marines H 1953-1955 Died Nov. 8, 2006

Verona, IL Army H 1972-1974

Jesse W. Gonnam

Roger M. Gordon

Edna Roach Graham

L. Rice Graham

Lawrance Graham

Tracy N. Graham

Elmer T. Granger

Tom Granger

John Gram

Verona, IL Air Force H 1941-1945 Died Aug. 2, 2002

Palmyra, IL Air Force H 1949-1953 Died May 30, 1989

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

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Ole M. Greenley, Sr.

Nicholas W. Gregoire

Dale Grieff

William J. Griffiths

Frank Grimes

Matteson, IL Air Force H 1964-1967

Eric Gronski

Eddie Grove

Ken Grudis

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 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

Morris, IL Navy H 1987-1990 Died Oct. 2, 2017

Daniel Hamric

Harvey A. Hansen

Lars M. Hansen

Leonard M. Hansen

Lowell R. Hansen

Sherman Hansen

Jerry Hanson

Lloyd Hanson

Raymond Hanson

Braceville, IL Marines H 1987-1997

Elwood Hahn

Babcock, WI Army H 1965-1968

Morris, IL Army H Korean War Died March 13, 1996

Verona, IL Navy H 1949-1953

George W. Hall

William S. Halterman

Peter Hammond

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

Morris, IL Army H 1944-1946 Died 1988

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

Newark, IL H Army H Died Jan. 31, 1955

Stanley Hanson

Wally Hanson

William Hanson

Willis J. Hanson, Jr.

Willis J. Hanson, Sr.

David A. Harper

Joshua W. Harris

George E. Harrop

Henry D. Harseim

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

Morris, IL Army H 1965-1968

Donald Harvey

Josh Harvey

Lonnie Harvey

Merrill C. Harvey

Maynard Hawkins

George Heap

Ron Heap

Trent Heap

John Heavens

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

Coal City, IL Air Corps H 1963-1966

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William Heermann

Nathan Hefner

Arnold Helgeson

Bennie Helland

Joseph G. Hemmersbach

Raymond E. Hemmersbach

Victor D. Hemmersbach

Adam Henderson

Jake Hendrix

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

Wedron, IL Marines H 1963-1967 Died April 18, 1993

Jay Hendrix

Herbert Hentschel

Duane L. Heren

Gil Herrera

Leslie E. Hertenstein

Myron L. Hexdall

John Hextell

Ronald G. Hibler

Daniel Hicks

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

Marseilles, IL Air Force H 1948-1952

Greg Higgins

John R. Higgins

Merlyn Higgins

Ruth Hiles

William Hiles

Earlyn K. Hill

Elton J. Hill

Lester M. Hill

Merwin F. Hill

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

Mazon, IL Army H 1942-1946 Died April 3, 2008

Andrew M. Hillegass

Vernon Hilt, Sr.

Bill Hiney

Gary Hively

Wayne Hodgson

Ralph Holbrook

Noel Holman

Raymond Holzhauer

Stephen Homerding

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

Plainfield, IL Army H WWII Died Oct. 1, 2001

Timothy Hood

Elizabeth Hortega

Josiah Hortega

William “Bill” Horton

Gerald R. Houchin

Keith O. Houchin

Harold G. Hougas

Irvin L. Hougas, Sr.

James E. Hougas

Morris, IL Navy H 2006-present

Ottawa, IL Navy H 2002-2007

Ottawa, IL Marines H 1998-2006

Yorkville, IL Army H 1956-1958 Died 1994

Seneca, IL Marines H 1957-1972 Died Nov. 18, 1972

Seneca, IL Marines H 1952-1956 Died April 22, 2010

Marseilles, IL Army H 1951-1953

Morris, IL Marines H 1943-1945 Died March 1, 1945

Morris, IL Army H 1952-1956 Died Sept. 11, 2009

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Willard Howen

Nicholas Huerta

Steven M. Huettemann

James Hughes

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

Morris, IL Army H 1942-1945 Purple Heart & Bronze Star Died March 2, 2019

Robert A. Hume

Dennis Huston

Robert Hutchings

Roy Hutchings, Jr.

Ronald Hutton

Morris, IL Navy H 1968-1972

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

Paul Izral

Melvin L. Jackman

Luke Jackson

Barry W. Jaicomo

Walter Jaicomo

Morris, IL Army H 1988-1991

George Jisa

Jason Hughes

Brian Humbert

Albert L. Hume

Michael T. Hume

Coal City, IL Army H 1991-1993

Dwight, IL Navy H active

Morris, IL Army H 1942-1945 Died 1993

Morris, IL Army H 1972-1974

Jim Hynds

Gary L. Ingraham

Robert H. Inman

John Iverson

Morris, IL Army H 1966-1968

William J. Jaicomo

Verona, IL Navy H 1957-1979

Coal City, IL Air Force H 1943-1945

Morris, IL Navy H 1943-1945 Died Aug. 14, 1993

Ronald Jamieson

Alfred “Red” Jenkins

Carroll Jewett

Gardner, IL Army H 1954-1956

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

Dwight, IL Army H 1983-2010

Mazon, IL Army H 1965-1967

Mazon, IL Marines H 1918-1919 Died 1977

Carl R. Johnson

Donald Johnson

Gary LeRoy Johnson

Gene A. Johnson

Harold F. Johnson

Harry A. Johnson

Jesse L. Johnson

John O. Johnson

Coal City, IL Coast Guard H 1941-1947 Died Oct. 29, 1997

Chicago, IL Navy H 1941-1945

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

Morris, IL H Marines H Died June 7, 1967

Morris, IL Army H 1942-1945 Died Jan. 24, 2010

Dr. Larry C. Johnson

Lavern Johnson

LeRoy Palmer Johnson

Lester W. Johnson

Oliver Johnson

Scott Johnson

Silas Johnson

Vernon E. Johnson

Vernon K. Johnson

Brookfield, MO Army H 1969-1972

Morris, IL Air Force H 1963-1967

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

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Hank Jones

Wesley E. Jorstad

Michael H. Joyce

Harold Kaldheim

Helen Kaldheim

Donald C. Kaufman

Robert R. Keech

Scott A. Keech

Ben F. Kelly

Morris, IL Army H 1941-1945 Died Nov. 11, 2009

Morris, IL Navy H 1944-1946 Died Dec. 27, 2008

So. Wilmington, IL Navy H 1944-1946

Seneca, IL Army H 1942-1946 Died July 23, 2003

Seneca, IL Air Corp. H 1942-1945

Jacob A. Kelly

Marvin Kessler

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

Joliet, IL Navy, ArmyH1943-1954 Died Feb. 8, 2017

Morris, IL Navy H 1999-2007

Morris, IL Navy Air CorpH1942-45 Died Jan. 25, 2008

Morris, IL Navy H 1966-1970

George F. Knudson

Gerald R. Knudson

Nathan D. Knutson

Harry Kolb

Don Komnick

John Kopczick

Mazon, IL Marines H 2013-present

Coal City, IL Navy H 1945-1946

Braceville, IL Army H 1968-1970

Lee E. Kleinfeldt

John H. Kleinmaier

Cate Klepacki

Morris, IL Army H 1958-1961

Eugene Klainsek

Morris, IL Navy H 1945-1946 Died March 22, 2013

Morris, IL Navy H 1977-1981

Morris, IL Army Air Corp. H 1942-46

Jessica Klein

Earl F. Kleinfeldt

J. E. Kleinfeldt

Morris, IL Army H 1972-1974

Morris, IL Army H 1942-1945 Died February 16, 1999

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

Raymond A. Kopczick

Nathan Kowalczyk

Ryan Kowalczyk

Frank B. Kuntz

Gary L. Kuntz

Gary R. Kuriger

William R. Kuriger

Ron Kyrouac

Charles Labaj

Morris, IL Army Air Corp.H1940-46 Died 1995

Morris, IL Marines H2012-2016

Morris, IL Air Force H 2017-present

Strawn, IL Army H 1941-1962 Died April 20, 2012

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

Walter R. Lacyk

James F. Lamie

Kurt Lamping

Stanley “Ike” Kopczick

Albert Kowalczyk

Ami Kowalczyk

Dennis E. Kowalczyk

Richard Kowalczyk

Marc Krakar

Morris, IL Army H 1950-1952

Coal City, IL Army H 1917-1919 Died March 9, 1968

Morris, IL Army H 1987-2011

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

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Russell Kukman

Frank Kulig

William J. Lanning

Daniel Lardi

Keith Larson

Milford “Muff” Larson Morris, IL Army H 1951-1953

Essex, IL Air Force H 1968-1971 Died Jan. 12, 1991

Custer Park, IL Army H 1964-1967

Gary L. Lawless

Walter L. Lawless

Ray Layton

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

So. Wilmington, IL Army H 1966-1968

Morris, IL Army H 1958-1961

John T. Latham, Sr.

Joe Laughary

Keith Laughary

Kevin Laughary

Kurt Laughary

Ruth Laughary

David E. Latham

John T. Latham, Jr.

Essex, IL Army H 1939-1945 Died Sept. 4, 1965

Morris, IL Army Air CorpH1940-45

Morris, IL Marines H 1970-1972

Morris, IL Navy H 2002-present

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

Arthur R. Leach

Rich Leach

Harry Leasure

Frank D. Lee

George E. Lee

Kevin W. Leeds

Tim Lehman

Daniel L. Leiter

Dennis Lenzie

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

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

Donald Lenzie

Allan O. Leranger

Lindsay Leskanich

Eugene E. Lewis

Norman Lewis

Samantha Limbach

Adam Lindley

Ray L. Lindley

Gary P. Linick

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

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

Brandon M. Linn

Terry Livingston

Scott Lock

Raymond J. Loeffler, Jr.

Albert Lovati

Alan D. Love

Granville A. Love

Clifford A. Lowery

William W. Lowery

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

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

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Lawrence Lundborg

LaVerne Lundborg

Patricia Lundborg

Timothy Lundborg

Donald Lyon

Henry A. Lyons

Henry E. Lyons

Samuel L. Lyons

Christopher Lutz

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

Morris, IL Army H 1959-1965

Coal City, IL Air Force H 1950-1954

Coal City, IL Army/WWI H 1918-1919

Coal City, IL Army/Civil WarH1864-1865

Morris, IL Navy H 1993-1999

Frank Lutz

Lavern R. Lutz

Robert Lynes

Joseph A. Macaluso

Joseph M. Macaluso

Robert S. Macdonald

Donald Madison

Norman R. Madison

Francis M. Maierhofer

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

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

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

Walter Marnell

Morris, IL Coast Guard H 1942-1946

William V. Martin

Morris, IL Navy H 1951-1955

Robert D. Martis

Coal City, IL Army H 1951-1953

David M. Maskel

Morris, IL Army H 1958-1961

Emmett Maskel

Morris, IL Army H 1952-1954 Died Aug. 23, 2001

Gerald Matteson

Kenneth Matteson

Russell Matteson

Fred Matuszewski

John F. Maunder

John Mazza

Gene L. McArdle

Mark McCarthy

Gardner, IL Army H 1943-1946 Died October 8, 1972

Clyde F. Mason

Kinsman, IL Army H 1942-1946 Died Jan. 10, 2015

Morris, IL Marines H 1943-1945 Died Sept. 7, 2012

Morris, IL Army H 1953-1954

Newark/Morris, IL Air Force H 1957-1961

Morris, IL Army H 1943-1946 Died May 27, 1967

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 1971-1973 Died April 5, 2020

Matt McCarthy

Jim McCleary

Dennis McCluckie

Earl (Mickey) McComas

Donald P. McCormack

Forrest McCormack

James R. McCormack

Kenneth McCormack

La Verne McCormack

Morris, IL Army H 2008-2016

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

Mazon, IL Marines H 1964-1971

Verona, IL Marines H 1965-1969

Verona, IL Army H 1944-1945 Died March 10, 2009

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Joseph B. McGuan

Paul E. McIntosh

Donald Dean McKinney

Jeremy N. McKinney

Jerry Jon McLuckie

John Wilton “Bill” McLuckie 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

Robert T. Meredith

Ed Meridith

James R. Meridith

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 McNabb

Kate Meadows

Richard Meadows

Ron E. Menees

Jackie L. Meredith

Llyod W. Meredith

Donald R. McMillan, Jr.

Mack McMillin

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

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

Robert Messel

Dominic J. Messina

Robert L. Metroz

John (Jack) Micetich

Philip (Joe) Micetich

Alan H. Miller

Henry “Hank” Miller Coal City, IL Navy H 1943-1945 Died 2006

Jacob D. Miller

Coal City, IL Marines H 2009-present

Lynn “Mike” Miller

Morris, IL Navy H 1945-1946, 1950-1952

Joseph Misener

Terry Misener

Richard Mitchell

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

Orville (Buck) Miller

Orville C. Miller

Raleigh Miller

Sean Miller

William E. Miller

Kyle Minett

Coal City, IL Navy H 1956-1958

Morris, IL Air Force H 1966-1970 Died August 31, 2014

Elton L. Monson

Jim Moran

Morris, IL Marines H 1953-1955

Mazon, IL Army H 1970-1972

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

Morris, IL Army H 1968-1970

Mazon, IL Army H 1967-1969

Morris, IL Army H 1951-1953 Died May 24, 2002

James W. Morrall

John Morris, Jr.

John Morris

Wayne Morris

Bill Morse

James Mulcahy

Mark Munger

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

Morris, IL Army H 1954-1956

Streator, IL Navy H 1943-1946 Died May 18, 2018

Dwight, IL Marines H 1986-2011

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Adam Murphy

J. F. Murphy

Terry Muscato

David S. Musgrave

Richard O. “Dick” Myers

John Nagra

John Nars

Tim Nagra

H. Wayne Neal

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

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

Bill E. Nelson

Gerald Nelson

Ivan M. Nelson

Jack E. Nelson

Mitchell D. Nelson

Donald Neville

Robert Newberry

Elmer E. Newell

Richard “Dick” Newell

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

Coal City, IL Army H 1945-1946

Morris, IL Army H 1942-1946 Died July 6, 2001

Joseph Newman

Charles John (Jack) Newport

Gwendolyn Babcock Newport

James Newport

Madison Nguyen

Larry E. Nickels

Danny Niewinski

Henry H. Niewinski

Henry W. Niewinski

Jerry Nugent

Seneca, IL Navy H Korean War

Belvidere, IL Army H 1950-1951 Killed in Action Aug. 27, 1951

Morris, IL Navy Nurses Corp.H1943-47 Died August 2009

Kinsman, IL Air Force H 1941-1945 Died 1994

Dwight, IL Marines H active

Morris, IL Navy H 1969-1975

Morris, IL Navy H 2012-present

Morris, IL Army H Korean War

Cliff Nighsonger

Delbert J. Noble

John Nolan

Dale Norton

Terry C. Novotney

Chris Nugent

George Nugent

Jeremiah Nugent, Sr.

Morris, IL Navy H 1951-1955

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

Morris, IL Navy H 1974-1978

Wilmington, IL Army H 1950-1953 Died March 8, 1996

Coal City, IL Air Force H 1975-1979

Mike Nugent

Patrick W. Nugent

Thomas Nugent

Erik Nusbaumer

Don O’Brien

Gerald O’Brien

Jack J. O’Hagen

Michael O’Hagen

Tyler Oelschlager

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

Chicago, IL Marines H 1947-1955 Died Dec. 1, 2003

Morris, IL Marines H 1990-1995

Dwight, IL Navy H active

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Gene Olson

Gregory T. Olson

Larry Olson

Maury Olson

Newan S. Olson

Richard O. Olson

Robert F. Olson

Roger L. Olson

Morris, IL Army H 1942-1945 Died July 15, 1980

Seneca, IL Air Force H 1950-1953 Died April 10, 2002

Morris, IL Navy H 1971-1975

Morris/Mazon, IL Army H 1968-1969

Gardner, IL Army H 1941-1945 Died Jan. 8, 2012

Morris, IL Army H 1941-1945 Died 1974

Monmouth, IL Navy H 1955-1957 Died Jan. 2, 2012

Morris, IL Navy H 1942-1946

Braceville, IL Army H 1966-1968

Violet R. Olson

Joseph E. Opyd

Leo Paul Opyd, Sr.

Leon Paul Opyd, III

Leon Paul Opyd, Jr.

Luke Opyd

Dennis Orvis

Lawrence Orvis

Gordon Osmundson

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

Seneca, IL Navy H 1967-1969

Seneca, IL Army H 1966-1969

Morris, IL Army H 1943-1945 Died Sept. 19, 2014

LaVerne Osmundson

Elwyn E. Oswood

Milburn J. Oswood

Marion S. Ostby

Douglas Overbeck

Edward Pacchetti

Albert C. Pankey

Dennis N. Pankey

Gerald J. Pankey

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

Coal City, IL Army H 1942-1944 Died Oct. 2, 1988

Clifton, IL Army H WWI Died 1963

Clifton, IL Army H 1972-1974

Clifton, IL Army H 1946-1948 Died 1999

Dick Parker

Norman L. Paroubek

Arthur Patterson

Gary Patton

Jeff Paulson

Raymond Paulson

James Pavlis

John Pavlis

Willis Peacock

Morris, IL Army H 101st Airborne 1962-1964

Merrill, WI Army H Air Force 1943-1946 Died April 5, 2019

Seneca, IL Army H 1941-1944 Died March 28, 2003

Ottawa, IL Marines H 1966-1969

Morris, IL Navy H 1991-1993

Morris, IL Navy H 1952-1955

Coal City, IL Army WWI H Operator- Infantry Died 1966

Delmar A. Peel

Delmar L. “Butch” Peel

David Perry

John L. Perry

Agnes Peterson

Eugene G. “Pete” Peterson

Jerry Peterson

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

Morris, IL Army H 1942-1945 Died Oct. 23, 2013

Morris, IL Navy H 1989-2010

Coal City, IL Army H WWII PFC 1615 SVC Comd Unit Died 1971

Morris, IL Army H 1944-1945 Died March 23, 2001

Melvin A. Peterson

Tim Pfaff

Morris, IL Marines H 1943-1947

Morris IL Navy H 1981-1992

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Donald L. Pfeifer, Sr.

Albert Phillips

Clarence Phillips

George W. Phillips

James R. Phillips, Sr.

John (Jack) Phillips

John Phillips, Jr.

John M. Phillips, Sr.

Joseph T. Phillips, Jr.

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

Minooka, IL Marines H 1941-46, 48-53 Died Sept. 20, 2001

Coal City, IL Marines H 1953-1955

Joseph T. Phillips, Sr.

Robert Phillips

Walter A. Phillips, Sr.

Frank Picciariello

Edward L. Pierard

Richard Pierce

Albert J. Pilch

Russel Dale Pine

Wayne E. Pine

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

Morris, IL Navy H 1945-1948 Died 1948

Morris, IL Army H 1918

David G. Platt

Glenn Pope

Jeffery Poundstone

Thomas F. Powell

John Prebeg

Milan Prebeg

John F. Progress

Mark Prosser

Ivan Provance

Morris, IL Marines H 1966-1972 Died Sept. 1, 1975

Channahon, IL Air Force H 1967-1971

Morris, IL Army H 1981-1991

Coal City, IL Navy H 1944-1945 Died Nov. 30, 1999

Joliet, IL Army H WWII Died 2013

Joliet, IL Army H WWII Deceased

Seneca, IL Army H 1951-1953 Died Nov. 16, 2002

Joliet, IL Army H 2004-2-12

Coal City, IL H Navy H Died March 9, 2005

Amity Taylor Provenzano

Patrick Rafferty

G. Herbert Ranz

Michael A. Ranz

Curtis Rasmusson

Ronald J. Rath

Francis M. Reano

John K. Reed

R. Edward Reed

Morris, IL Navy H 1997-2000

Dwight, IL Army H active

Morris, IL Army Air Force H 1941-45 Died Oct. 27, 2004

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

Morris, IL Air Force H 1989-2017

Morris, IL Navy H 1993-1997

James I. Reeves

James W. Reeves

Joseph L. Reeves

Edward J. Reiser

Leon J. Residori

Gary Rickmon

Kimberly Rieck

Dana Riegel

Jeremy Riegel

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

Dwight, IL Army H active

Dwight, IL Army H active

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Timothy P. Riegle

George James Ringer

Jon Ringer

Martin J. Riordan, Jr.

Harold Ritke

Eugene Robertson

Brian Robisky

Dennis Robisky

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

Dwight, IL Air Force H active

Dwight, IL Air Force H active

Korey Rodrick

Kenneth Roe

Leland M. Roe

Wilmer Roe

Robert T. Rogers

John J. Ronchetti

Keith Roseland

Wayne Roseland

Richard Rosencrans

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

Coal City, IL Navy H 1943-1945 Died April 15, 2014

Seneca, IL Army H 1952-1954

Randall E. Rosengren

John B. Ross

John Roth, Jr.

John Roth, Sr.

Louis Ruffatti

Luverne Runestad

Marty Runestad

Orliss L. Runestad

Shawn P. Runge

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

Morris, IL Navy H 1943-1946 Died Nov. 11, 2009

Warsaw, IL Navy H 1984-1990

Davis A. Runion

Clinton Ryder

Darwin Ryder

Robert J. Ryder

Stephen J. Ryder

William Richard Ryder Morris, IL Navy H 1971-1974

Joseph T. Sajnaj

LaSalle/Morris, IL Coast Guard H 1948-52

Mark J. Sajnaj

Morris, IL Air Force H 1985-1989

Michael G. Sajnaj, Jr.

Morris, IL Navy H 2006-present

Siegel Sampson

David Sandeno

John R. Sanders, Jr.

John R. Sanders

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

Michael G. Sajnaj

Eric Sampson

Gordon Sampson

Orville L. “Bud” Sampson

Ronald Sampson

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

Morris, IL Army H 1967-1970

Chicago, IL Navy H 1942-1945

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Kevin Sanders

Dario E. Sarti

Erica Sarti

Hannibal J. “Nibs” Sarti

Jared Sarti

Ralph Sassenger

James E. Satorius

Dean L. Savage

Dennis Scaman

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

Gardner, IL Army H 1942-1943 Died Sept. 3, 1985

Morris, IL Army H 1972-1981

Ken Scaman

William Scerine

John F. Schimandle

John J. Schimandle

Wayne Schlappi

Christopher Schmick

Ronald C. Schmick

Louis Schmidberger Joliet, IL Navy H 1957-1959

Douglas Schmidt

Maquoketa, IA Navy H 1977-1983

Richard N. Scorby

Paul F. Scott

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

Morris, IL Army H 1988-1992

Morris, IL Army H 1966-1967

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

Robert H. Sereno

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

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Michael Thomas Sheridan

Bernard “Art” Shewmake 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

Clarence Sisk

M. J. (Peg) Sjostrom

Bennie Sklut

Alan Skwarczynski

Sheila Skwira

Bruce Lane Smith

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

Russell Shostrom

George P. Shugart

Mark Allen Simons

Mazon, IL Army H 1942-1946 Died Nov. 20, 1965

Frank Smith, Jr.

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

Donald Shewmake

Jim Shewmake

Rich Shewmake

Walter Shewmake

Jerry Shirtino, Jr.

Alfred Shewmake

Kinsman, IL Army H WWII Died 1966

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

Jim Smith

John K. Smith

Lynwood Smith

Mark H. Smith

Melvin A. Smith

William “Buzzy” Smith

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

Morris, IL Air Force H 1951-1972

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

Richard Sohan

Wayne Sorensen

Bruce E. Southcombe

Gina Spandet

Alan P. Spangler

Charlie Sparrow

Kyle Sparrow

Paul Sparrow

Tara Sparrow

Morris, IL Army H 1963-1965

So. Wilmington, IL Army H 1942-1945 Died Aug. 22, 2014

Morris, IL Army H 1943-1946

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

Daniel F. Spencer

Neal “Corky” Spencer

Bruce E. Southcombe

P. Douglas Splain

Philip E. Splain

Paul Sprole

Robert Stangland

Robert Thomas Stansberry

William Steele

Morris, IL Navy H 1944-1945 Died 1986

Morris, IL Navy H 1966-1970

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

Morris, IL Army H 1942-1946

Morris, IL Marines H 1976-1984

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Emery (Jack) Steen

Mark W. Steen

Arthur E. Steffes, Jr.

Joel Steichen

Donald W. Sterritt, Jr.

Donald W. Sterritt, Sr.

Doug Sterritt

Matthew J. Steurer

Walter Stott

Morris, IL Navy H 1943-1946 Died Jan. 2000

Queen City, MO Army H 1940-1943 MIA April 11, 1943

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 Army H WWII Died July 12, 2000

Morris, IL Air Force H 1996-2006 Reserves H active

Dwight, IL Marines H active

Morris, IL Army H 1941-1945 Died Nov. 1974

Robert Strandell

Michael Strange

Robert Strange, Sr.

Joseph Struck

Theodore Struck

Michael Stuckey

Simon Sulaica, Jr.

Hezzie Summitt

Kristopher Surber

Morris, IL Army RetSFC H 19742015

Morris, IL Marines H 1981-1985

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

James A. Susan

Morris, IL Army H 1969-1972

James Sutton

Dwight, IL Air Force H 1990-2010

Charles “Chuck” Suydam Coal City, IL Army H 1941-1945 Died March 10, 1990

Ernest W. Swanson

Coal City, IL Navy H 1944-1946 Died Feb. 13, 2000

Josiah Swanson

Newark, IL Army Reserves H 2009

Daniel Swiggett

Morris, IL Army H 2002-2007

Jeff L. Swiggett

Morris, IL Army H 1982-1985

Barney A. Taylor

Morris, IL Navy H 1964-1967 Died Nov. 1, 1988

Joseph L. Taylor

Morris, IL Navy H 1996-2000

Jeremy Teague

Ladd Tedford

Gerald R. Terando

Joshua A. Terando

Donald E. Terry

Justin Terry

Ronald L. Terry

James E. Testa

Herbert J. Thom

Braidwood, IL Marines H 2000-2004

Morris, IL Air Force H 1946-1948 Died 1983

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

Absher Thomas

George Thomas

Seth Thomas

William Thomas

Alden C. Thompson

Gerald Thompson

Glenn Thompson

Jerome Thompson

Lavern Thompson

Strawn, IL Army H 1942-WWII Died Sept. 20, 2009

Morris, IL Navy H 1946-1948

Lockport, IL Army H 2013-present

Seneca, IL Army H 1969-Viet Nam

Morris, IL Army H 1944-1946 Died May 27, 2015

Morris, IL Air Corp. H 1953-1957

Morris, IL Marines H1953-1957 Deceased

Morris, IL Navy H 1943-1945 Deceased

Morris, IL MarinesH1943-45, 50-52 Died March 29, 1997

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Milton Thompson

Thomas A. Thompson

Wayne Thompson

John R. Thorsen Morris, IL H Army H

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

H. Dale Thorson

Jeffrey Thorson

Ken Thorson

Otto Thorson Morris, IL H Army H Died 1947

Robert Thorson

Dwight, IL Army H 1965-1967

Chris Travis

Donald Treadway

Morris, IL Navy H 1943-1946

Morris, IL Air Force H 1943-1946

Morris, IL Army H 1967-1969

Morris, IL Navy H 1945-1946 Deceased

Duanne Thorson

Edward Thorson

Emmett L. Thorson

Glenn Thorson

Alvin G. Thorson

Byron A. Thorson

Seneca, IL Army H 1983-1998

Morris, IL Army H 1965-1967

Mazon, IL Army Air CorpH1942-1945 Died April 8, 1990

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

“Georgie Glenn” Threewitt

David Tinsley

Joey Todd

David M. Togliatti

Michael J. Togliatti

Alvin J. Torkelson

Brian Trainor

Cyril T. Thorson

Dennis Thorson

Benton, IL Navy H 1954-1962 Died Sept. 25, 2008

Yorkville, IL Army H 1971-1977

Dwight, IL Navy H 2004-2008

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

Wayne Trenter

John J. Triner, Jr.

Elwyn A. Trotter

Parry Tuggle

Charles Turner

Marvin Tyler

Edward Unger

Tony Unger

Tim Urbanik

Morris, IL Army H 1951-1954 Died June 24, 1993

Coal City, IL Army H 1970-1972 Died April 12, 2002

Coal City/Morris, IL Army H 1941-1946

Morris, IL Air Force H 1961-1962

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

Gordon K. Vaksdal

Richard L. Valerio

Donald C. Valiente

William B. Vallow

Clay C. Van Tassel

Ralph Vanden

Conrad Vandervort

Gene Vandervort

Willard E. Vaughn

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

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

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Barton W. Vest

Robert J. Viano

James Vick

Edwin P. Viglia, Sr.

Sigurd S. Viland

James Vilt

Joseph Vilt

Kenneth W. Vilt

Kenneth J. Vlk

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

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

Thomas Vodacek

George Voelcker

Russell F. Vogen

John Vota

D. Duane Waisath

George C. Walczak

Daniel M. Walker

James Walsh

James E. Walsh

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

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

Thomas E. “Ed” Walsh

William “Bill” Walsh Verona, IL Navy H 1942-1946 Died July 14, 1979

William Wando

Dwight, IL Marines H active

William T. Warren

Morris, IL Air Force H 1940-1964 Died June 2, 1964

Robert W. Warrick

Morris, IL Coast Guard H 1945-1946 Died Feb. 26, 2009

Edward Washburn

Coal City, IL Navy H 1943-1945 Died March 30, 1995

Eric Washburn

Morris, IL Navy H 1982-1986

Paul E. Washburn

Morris, IL Army H 1953-1955 Died June 23, 2016

Richard A. Washburn

Morris, IL Air Force H 1959-1966

Robert Washburn

Harry S. Watters

Clay Webb

Conrad Weitz

Frank W. Welch

Herman F. Welch

Dave Welsh

Douglas Welsh

Theodore L. Wendell

Morris, IL Army H 1942-1945 Died Nov. 2, 2018

Morris, IL Army H 1943-1945 Died Jan. 2, 1999

Ritchie, IL Army H 1941-1945

Coal City, IL Marines H 1982-present

Morris, IL Army H 1942-1946 Died Sept. 20, 1980

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

Terry Wenger

Melvin P. Werden

Charles Whitaker

Eric White

James White

Harry L. Wickman

Lawrence W. Wickman

Lisa Wickman

Nicholas R. Wickman

Dwight, IL Air Force H active

Morris, IL Army H 1957-1959

Morris, IL Navy H 1964-1967

Gardner, IL Marines H 1993-1997 Died Aug. 28, 2004

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

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Jerry Howard Wicks

Matthew Wilkey

Robert D. Wilkinson

Leslie Willis

“Pete” Willis

Robert Willis

Rudy Willis, II

Rudolph Willis

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

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

Donald Lloyd Wills

Kendall Wills

Lloyd Wills

Stephen D. Wills

Ronald Wilson

Richard Winsor

Edwin D. Witt

Donald L. Woodward

Leonard J. Wozniak

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

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

Francis E. Wren, Jr.

Jason Wren

Ronald Wren

Jason G. Wright

Fred Wurst, Jr.

Fred Wurst, Sr.

Archie Wynen

Allan Yarmer

Mello Yarmer

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

Peotone, IL Army H 1969-1971

Ojibwa, WI Navy H 1943-1945

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

Michelle L. Yarmer

Elmo Ray Younger

Edward Zelinko, Sr.

James Zelinko, Sr.

John Robert Zelko III

Harley D. Zhe

Norman E. Ziegler

Ronald Ziegler

Chris Zierman

Verona, IL Navy H 2001-2009

Morris, IL Army H 1942-1946

Clarence R. Zingre

Morris, IL Army H 1942-1945 Died March 13, 2011

Coal City, IL Army H 1942-1945

Harry Zitzka

Morris, IL Army H 1951-1952

Coal City, IL Army H 1968-1970

G. G. Zullo

Morris, IL Army H 2006-2008

Morris, IL Army H 1964-1966 Died March 27, 1996

Morris, IL Army H 1952-1953

Nicholas Zullo

Morris, IL Air Force H 1960-1964

Morris, IL Army H 1941-1945 Died May 9, 2003

Gene Funk

Morris, IL Army H 1960 - 1963

Morris, IL Army H 1969-1971

James Zumbahlen

Morris, IL Air Force H 1943-1947 Died Sept. 30, 2011

Morris, IL Marines H 2001-2004

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Veteran Service Organizations 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-CL2026761

AMVETS Post 53