McLeod County Veterans Memorial Park
Dedicated to the men and women who answered the call to duty.
Serving their country in war time and peace.
Never let their sacrifice be forgotten.
Civil War
1861 - 1865
We highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain.
A. Lincoln
Participants (Union & Confederate)
3,213,000
KIA - 562,130
WIA - 418,206
POW - 410,000
Spanish American War
1898 - 1902
Remember the Maine
Participants - 392,000
KIA - 11,000
WIA - 1,662
POW - 8
MIA - 72
World War I
1914 - 1918
The war to end all wars...
Making the world safe for
democracy.
Participants - 4,744,000
KIA - 116,708
WIA - 204,002
POW - 7,470
World War II
1941 - 1945
The only thing we have to fear,
is fear itself.
Participants - 16,535,000
KIA - 406,000
WIA - 670,846
POW -124,079
MIA - 30,314
Korean War
1950 - 1955
The forgotten war.
Participants - 6,807,000
KIA - 54,246
WIA - 103,284
POW - 7,140
MIA - 8,177
Vietnam War
1959 - 1975
A war that asked everything of a few
and nothing of most of America.
Participants - 9,200,000
KIA - 58,153
WIA - 53,303
POW - 766
MIA - 1817
Panama - Grenada Lebanon
1980 - 1990
"Ever Vigilant"
Participants - 20,000
KIA - 327
WIA - 509
Persian Gulf War
1990 - 1991
We went...
We didn't ask why
our country called
and we were proud.
Participants - 3,531,000
KIA - 148
WIA - 357
POW - 29
MIA - 20
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