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Pike County Veterans Memorial IL496 |
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 Picture Courtesy of Jim Kuntz
 Picture Courtesy of Jim Kuntz
 Picture Courtesy of Jim Kuntz
A grateful community honors those men and women who have served this nation in the United State's Armed Forces. Although you may not have been known by all, you will never be forgotten by any.
IN GOD WE TRUST
PIKE COUNTY ILLINOIS EST: 1821
"With malice toward none, with Charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us Strive on to finish the work we are in: to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him.... ...who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphan - to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all humans." Abraham Lincoln, March 4th, 1866.
[across the back bottom of the monument shows these heroic medals.
Army Distinguished Service Medal~Navy Cross~Air Force Cross~DOD Distinguished Service Medal~Silver Star~Legion of Merit ~Medal of Honor~ Distinguished Flying Cross~Bronze Star~Purple Heart~Defense Meritorious Service Medal~National Defense Service Medal. Erected Pike County, Illinois, 2007. Washington St., courthouse lawn, Pittsfield, Pike County Illinois
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