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IN HONOR OF ALL MEN AND WOMEN WHO SERVED OUR NATION IN WAR AND PEACE.

DEDICATED TO THE FALLEN HEROES OF OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM AND OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM LEST THEY BE FORGOTTEN.

IN MEMORY OF OUR FALLEN ILLINOIS SERVICE MEMBERS IN OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM AND OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM.

THIS ROCK IS DEDICATED TO "DESERT STORM VETERANS" WE REMEMBER ALL WHO SERVED IN WARS OF PAST, "WE ARE PROUD TO BE AMERICAN".

WE HONOR ALL WOMEN PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE FOR THEIR PATRIOTISM TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. TO HONOR ALL WOMEN VETERANS FOR THEIR SERVICE TO GOD, HOME AND COUNTRY.

1ST BATTALION, 15TH INFANTRY REGIMENT, 3RD BRIGADE COMBAT TEAM, 3RD INFANTRY DIVISION-COLE EDWARD SPENCER-OCTOBER 26, 1985-APRIL 28, 2007-"AMERICAN BY BIRTH" "PATRIOT BY CHOICE"

IN MEMORY OF MAJOR KENNETH D. BAILEY USMC AWARDED THE MEDAL OF HONOR FOR BRAVERY IN WORLD WAR II. HE WAS CREDITED WITH SAVING HENDERSON FIELD, A VITAL U.S. AIRBASE ON GUADALCANAL. LATER HE WAS KILLED BY MACHINE-GUN FIRE.

DEFENSE OF FORT DEARBORN STOOD ALMOST ON THIS SPOT. AFTER A HEROIC DEFENSE IN 1812, THE GARRISON TOGETHER WITH WOMEN AND CHILDREN WAS FORCED TO EVACUATE THE FORT. LED BY CAPTAIN WELLS THEY WERE BRUTALLY MASSACRED BY THE INDIANS. THEY WILL BE CHERISHED AS ...

IN MEMORY OF THOSE WHO ARE BURIED IN BOND COUNTY FROM THE WAR OF 1812.

HONORS THE ILLINOIS VOLUNTEER REGIMENTS WHO FOUGHT IN THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR.

DONATED TO THE CITY OF GRAYVILLE AND DEDICATED TO THE VETERANS OF ALL WARS. ERECTED BY JAMES M. HELM POST 696 AMERICAN LEGION.

PROUDLY WE PAY TRIBUTE TO THE MEN AND WOMEN OF THE WESTVILLE AREA WHO SERVED THEIR COUNTRY. MOUNTED BEHIND THE GLASS ARE NAMES OF SERVICEMEN FROM WESTVILLE WHO SERVED THEIR COUNTRY.

IN MEMORY OF SGT. JOSHUA TROP CRIPPIN AND HENNING VETERANS WHO SERVED OUR COUNTRY IN WAR AND PEACE.