Military
Veterans Memorial Park includes ten stones with bronze tablets relocated from Veterans Memorial Circle in 2022. Eight tablets are dedicated to veterans of the Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Cold War, the Iraq Wars, and the Afghan War; the Afghan War tablet includes the name of Brookfield native Joshua Harris, who died in combat there. A ninth tablet bears the inscription, “Greater love hath no man than he lay down his life for another.” A tenth tablet, originally dedicated at Brookfield’s Veterans Memorial Circle on July 1, 1973, dedicates the memorial circle to valiant men and lists names from World War I, the Korean Conflict, the Viet Nam Conflict, and World War II.
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