SEE ALSO-28TH REGIMENT USCT WAR MEMORIAL MARKER

SEE ALSO-28TH REGIMENT USCT WAR MEMORIAL MARKER

HERE, FEB 11, 1861 ABRAHAM LINCOLN, ON HIS WAY TO WASHINGTON TO ASSUME THE PRESIDENCY, IN AN ADDRESS SAID "I APPEAL TO YOU TO CONSTANTLY BEAR IN MIND THAT NOT WITH POLITICIANS, NOT WITH PRESIDENTS, NOT WITH OFFICE-SEEKERS, BUT WITH YOU IS THE QUESTION: SH ...

THIS MEMORIAL IS DEDICATED TO HONOR ALL RECIPIENTS OF THE MEDAL OF HONOR. THE MEMORIAL CONSISTS OF 27 GLASS PANELS EACH REPRESENTING AN ARMED CONFLICT IN WHICH A MEDAL OF HONOR WAS AWARDED.

THE MONUMENT WAS ERECTED TO HONOR HOOSIERS WHO WERE VETERANS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR THROUGH THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR.

ORIGINALLY BUILT TO HONOR THE VETERANS OF WORLD WAR I. THE LOCATION BECAME THE NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS OF THE AMERICAN LEGION AND A MEMORIAL TO THE STATE'S AND THE NATION'S VETERANS.

AFTER DELIVERING CRITICAL PARTS FOR THE FIRST ATOMIC BOMB TO TINIAN THE SHIP WAS TORPEDOED AND SUNK. FOUR DAYS LATER SURVIVORS WERE RETRIEVED FROM THE SEA. OF THE 1,196 CREWMEN ONLY 317 SAILORS SURVIVED. THIS LEAD TO THE SINGLE GREATEST LOSS OF LIFE AT SE ...