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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM271K_erie-county-vietnam-veterans-memorial-a-war-memorial_Erie-PA.html
[Stand in the middle of the memorial:]
"Take what they have left and what they have taught you with their passing. And when there is a time when men decide and feel safe to call any war insane, take one moment to embrace those gentle heroes you l…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2715_flag-display-a-war-memorial_Erie-PA.html
Flag display
donated in honor of
the patriotic determination and valor of
Lt. Col. Stephen John Manzek
USAF WWII-POW-Korea-Vietnam-DFC
PFC Edwin John Wagner
104th Inf. US Army WWII
France-Belgium-Holland-Germany
Missions completed
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM270V_erie-county-korean-war-memorial-a-war-memorial_Erie-PA.html
[Front:]
Freedom is not Free
1950
Korea
1953
[Back:]
The Forgotten War Remembered
Korean Service
Korea
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM26YO_northwest-pa-purple-heart-memorial_Erie-PA.html
In February 1932, Gen. Douglas MacArthur, then-Army Chief of Staff, announced that the War Department was reviving Gen. George Washington's badge of military merit as a new decoration: the Purple Heart. Since then, more than one million Americans …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM26Y5_erie-county-world-war-ii-memorial-a-war-memorial_Erie-PA.html
The Erie County WWII Memorial is dedicated to the seven hundred and twenty-seven that gave their lives in service to their nation during the war years of World War Two. The north face of the memorial lists their names and displays the insignias of…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRHE_colonel-philip-cochran_Erie-PA.html
World War II hero. Cochran distinguished himself as a daring pilot commanding P-40 fighter planes in North Africa and as the colorful leader of the 1st Air Commandos during the invasion of Burma. He became a colonel at the age of 33 and earned suc…