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Town of Rochester (TOR) Veterans Memorial and Database
The Town is establishing a Veterans Park on Town property in the Hamlet of Accord. The park will have monuments to American conflicts as far back as the Revolutionary War.
In connection with the Park, the Town will establish a database of all military veterans who were town residents at the time they served in the military. As a start to the database, all of the names from the honor roll that listed WW I and WW II veterans were copied and printed on a form for review/update. (The original Honor Roll, as recovered, will be incorporated into the park’s design. ) Councilman Francis Gray is organizing this endeavor and is seeking assistnace from veterans or family members to establish the database. If anyone has information on local veterans, you help is needed.
The first step is to get the veteran’s name, organization (branch), the war (conflict), years (dates) of service, copy of service record or DD214 and any service photos you care to share. A 3-ring binder is located in the TOR Town Clerk’s Office to collect the information. Please stop by and update the information that was taken from the original TOR Honor Roll for World Wars I and II or add additional names from other conflicts. Since only the veteran’s initial for the first name was used on the honor roll please add the full first name. Instructions are included in the binder. If you have photos/articles of interest to your veteran which you would be willing to share, Councilman Gray has volunteered to scan them into a database and return them to you unchanged. Please call him at 626-4527 to make arrangements for borrowing.
After development, the database will be available at the Friends of Historic Rochester Museum for review and research.
Remember, the veteran’s park can only be successful if our community participates. We have only the veterans from WW I and WW II so your information is critical.
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