Jonathan "Johnny Ro" Roberge, a Leominster native, was killed in action in Mosul, Iraq, on February 9, 2009, while serving in the United States Army as a tank driver. Three other men were killed with him that day: Pfc. Albert Jex, Lt. Col. Darby, and Sgt. Joshua Ward. A memorial park honors Jonathan and these three soldiers through four battle crosses on the walkway leading to a tank that represents Jonathan. The tank was obtained from North Carolina, brought to Leominster on a flatbed truck, and dedicated as its own entity in 2011. Blast walls symbolize the safe zones used by soldiers on the ground in Iraq and Afghanistan; though smaller here and made of concrete, they stand for a safe place for military men and women. One wall recreates the practice in Iraq of soldiers writing the names of fallen soldiers on blast walls, using the names of the war dead from Massachusetts painted in the same color soldiers used there, while the opposite wall displays photographs corresponding to each name. A hut echoes the small huts in Iraq and Afghanistan where soldiers live and work. A large rock near the statue closely resembles a rock soldiers found in the Iraqi desert and made into a memorial for Jonathan and the three men killed with him, and it was recreated here to honor them. The final piece was a life-sized statue of Jonathan, for which his younger brother Andrew posed as a tribute to his older brother.