Keywords: Soldiers memorials
Item 15753
Pledge to Cape Elizabeth Soldiers and Sailors Monument Association, 1897
Contributed by: South Portland Historical Society Date: 1897-07-01 Location: South Portland Media: Paper
Item 66476
Soldiers' Monument, Freeport, ca. 1938
Contributed by: Boston Public Library Date: circa 1935 Location: Freeport Media: Linen texture postcard
Exhibit
WWI Memorial Trees along Portland's Baxter Boulevard
On Memorial Day of 1920, the City of Portland planted 100 Linden trees on Forest Avenue, each dedicated to the memory of one military service member who had died in World War I, or who had served honorably.
Exhibit
Monuments to Civil War Soldiers
Maine supplied a huge number of soldiers to the Union Army during the Civil War -- some 70,000 -- and responded after the war by building monuments to soldiers who had served and soldiers who had died in the epic American struggle.
Site Page
Maine and the Civil War - Headstone, unknown Confederate soldier, Gray, 1979
"The gravestone reads, "Stranger, A soldier of the late war died 1862, Erected by the ladies of Gray." This item is in copyright."
Site Page
Presque Isle: The Star City - Soldiers marching in Presque Isle Memorial Day parade, 1944
"… Soldiers marching in Presque Isle Memorial Day parade, 1944 Contributed by Presque Isle Air Museum Description Soldiers marching in the…"
Story
The only letter to survive World War II
by Cyrene Slegona
Only one of many letters my father sent to his wife remained after he came home from World War II.
Story
Memories of a mission in Vietnam, January 11, 1970
by SGT. Ronald Santerre, 1st Calvary Division
Extracting villagers from the Viet Cong in Vietnam
