The East Tennessee Veterans Memorial
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The East Tennessee Veterans Memorial

A Pictorial History of the Names on the Wall, Their Service, and Their Sacrifice

  1. 417 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The East Tennessee Veterans Memorial

A Pictorial History of the Names on the Wall, Their Service, and Their Sacrifice

About this book

At the northern edge of the World’s Fair Park in Knoxville, Tennessee, a striking set of thirty-two granite pylons stands as a monument to the tradition of military service in East Tennessee. The East Tennessee Veterans Memorial explores the creation and significance of this commemorative monument, providing a window into the lives and courageous actions of the more than 6,200 men and women whose names are inscribed on the sobering markers. In this book, author John Romeiser, with the assistance of Jack McCall, showcases the stories of over 300 service members and their families, documented with public records, obituaries, and family recollections. In these pages, readers will find the accounts of each of East Tennessee’s 14 Medal of Honor recipients, along with tales of a variety of other veterans from World War I to the present, people whose lives and deaths together form a microcosm of the armed forces. Richly illustrated with historical photographs, this ambitious undertaking delivers not only a compelling history of individual lives but also a broader sense of military history in the region and a contribution to the scholarship on the value of monuments as a means to honor the past.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Foreword, Carroll Van West
  3. Preface: The East Tennessee Veterans Memorial and How It Came to Be
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. 1. Uncommon Valor: The East Tennessee Medal of Honor Recipients
  6. 2. The Men of the 30th Division in World War I
  7. 3. Early Military Aviators: Kiffin Yates Rockwell and Charles McGhee Tyson
  8. 4. East Tennesseans in World War I and the Great Influenza Epidemic
  9. 5. Lost at Sea and in the Air: East Tennesseans Who Perished in the Atlantic
  10. 6. Prisoners of War in World War II
  11. 7. The GIs’ Great Crusade in Europe: Remembering the East Tennesseans Who Fell in the European Theater of Operations during World War II
  12. 8. The Japanese “Hellships”
  13. 9. The Tester Brothers of Washington County: A Gold Star Family’s Losses during World War II
  14. 10. A Difficult Homecoming: The Challenges of Postwar Repatriation
  15. 11. The “Forgotten War”: Korea and the John Sadler Story
  16. 12. Vietnam: Selected Stories from the Conflicts in Indochina
  17. 13. Remembering the East Tennessee Women Who Served
  18. 14. Non-Combat Tragedies and Lingering Mysteries
  19. 15. War in the Middle East: Accounts from the Persian Gulf, Afghanistan, and Iraq
  20. 16. The Roll of Honor: The Names Listed on the East Tennessee Veterans Memorial
  21. Afterword: The Sorrow, the Pity, and the Lasting Memories of War
  22. Notes
  23. Glossary
  24. Selected Bibliography
  25. Index