Evanston's war dead are honored here with the words, “They gave their lives in war that we might live in peace,” followed by the names of those who died in the Civil War, the Spanish American War, World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, and Operation Enduring Freedom. On April 27, 1951, Douglas MacArthur, General of the Army, placed a wreath on this site honoring Evanston's war casualties and said, “I do not know the dignity of these men's births but I do know the glory of their death. They died that this nation and all the things it stands for shall not perish from this earth.”