Southington WWII, Korea & Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Southington, Capitol Planning Region, Connecticut
Marker Inscription
Dedicated in memory of the men and women of the town of Southington, CT who served their country in World War II, Korean War, Vietnam Conflict
The Story
This monument honors the residents of Southington, Connecticut who served in the nation's three great mid-twentieth-century conflicts: World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam Conflict. Together these wars swept up a generation of small-town Americans, sending men and women from a modest Connecticut manufacturing community to Europe, the Pacific, the Korean peninsula, and Southeast Asia. Memorials like this one became a fixture of New England town greens in the postwar decades, a communal way to keep the names and sacrifices of neighbors present in daily civic life.
Why it matters
It captures how ordinary American towns bore the human cost of the century's defining wars, and how communities chose to remember service and sacrifice close to home. The explicit inclusion of women reflects the broadening role of Americans in wartime service across these eras.
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Related events
- · World War II
- · Korean War
- · Vietnam War
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