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The Charlestown Vietnam Veterans Memorial is a war memorial commemorating six local men who died who during the Vietnam War, installed outside Veterans Memorial Hall in Charlestown, Boston, in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. The memorial was dedicated in April 2009. See also. List of Vietnam War monuments and memorials; References
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial, commonly called the Vietnam Memorial, is a U.S. national memorial in Washington, D.C., honoring service members of the U.S. armed forces who served in the Vietnam War. The two-acre (8,100 m 2) site is dominated by two black granite walls engraved with the names of those service members who died or remain missing ...
Charlestown Veterans Memorial Park. The park in 2019. Location. Charlestown, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. Coordinates. 42°22′21″N71°03′42″W42.37245°N 71.06178°W. Charlestown Veterans Memorial Park is a park in Charlestown, Boston, Massachusetts, United States. The park has memorials commemorating Korean War and Vietnam War veterans.
The Massachusetts Bay Colony (1628–1691), more formally the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, was an English settlement on the east coast of North America around the Massachusetts Bay, one of the several colonies later reorganized as the Province of Massachusetts Bay. The lands of the settlement were in southern New England, with initial ...
Hundreds of strangers attended the Friday afternoon funeral of a 78-year-old man who served in the Vietnam War but died homeless and without family. Charles Connolly was buried alongside 78,000 ...
The area that is now Massachusetts was colonized by English settlers in the early 17th century and became the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the 18th century. Before that, it was inhabited by a variety of Native American tribes. Massachusetts is named after the Massachusett tribe that inhabited the area of present-day Greater Boston.
The city of Springfield is highlighted in red. The Pioneer Valley is the colloquial and promotional name for the portion of the Connecticut River Valley that is in Massachusetts in the United States. [1] It is generally taken to comprise the three counties of Hampden, Hampshire, and Franklin. [2]
Charlestown is the oldest neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts, in the United States. [1] Also called Mishawum by the Massachusett, it is located on a peninsula north of the Charles River, across from downtown Boston, and also adjoins the Mystic River and Boston Harbor waterways. Charlestown was laid out in 1629 by engineer Thomas Graves, one ...