Inside the garden. Just follow the path going to the east and eventually you will see the memorial wall.

A brick memorial wall with concrete roofing in which a fountain flows at the center symbolizing life. The plaques of the fifty American states are embedded on the wall and are dedicated to the U.S. casualties of the Second World War who served at Normandy.

Plaque 1:

(This is on the floor of the path going to the memorial garden.)

UNITED STATES

ARMED FORCES

MEMORIAL GARDEN

JUNE 1994

Plaque 2:

DEDICATED TO THE

DC NATIONAL GUARD

AND PARTICULARLY

THOSE WHO FOUGHT

AT NORMANDY

Plaque 3:

DEDICATED TO THE

SONS AND DAUGHTERS

FROM THE STATE OF

INDIANA WHO HELPED

KEEP EUROPE AND

THE WORLD FREE

Plaque 4:

LOUISIANA

IN MEMORY OF THOSE SOLDIERS

FROM LOUISIANA WHO SERVED

BRAVELY AT NORMANDY

CHARLES E "BUDDY" ROEMER

GOVERNOR OF LOUISIANA

MAJ GEN ANSEL M STROUD JR

THE ADJUTANT GENERAL

1988

Plaque 5:

DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY

OF THE SOLDIERS OF THE

212TH ARMORED FIELD ARTILLERY BN

NORMANDY - 1944

BY THE GRATEFUL CITIZENS OF

THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS

AND THE SOLDIERS OF

THE 211TH FA BN - 1988

MICHAEL S. DUKAKIS, GOVERNOR

MG WAYNE F. WAGNER, THE ADJUTANT GENERAL

Plaque 6:

1ST BATTALION 203d

(152nd) FIELD ARTILLERY

Plaque 7:

KENTUCKY

103RD A.A.A.

BATTALION

Plaque 8:

MARYLAND

29TH INF. DIVISION

OMAHA BEACH

6 JUNE 1944

Plaque 9:

MISSOURI

128^TH ARMD FA BN

1ST BN 129^TH FA

HQ CO. 35TH INF DIV

Plaque 10:

THIS STONE IS DEDICATED TO OVER

2000 MEN AND WOMEN FROM MONTANA

WHO DIED DURING WORLD WAR II

IN DEFENSE OF OUR COUNTRY.

THIS MONTANA GRANITE ROCK WAS PART

OF THE ORIGINAL STATE CAPITOL BUILDING

THAT WAS CONSTRUCTED IN

HELENA, MONTANA IN THE YEAR 1899.

Plaque 11:

NEW JERSEY'S

CITIZEN - SOLDIERS

AT THEIR BEST

102nd Armor

112th Field Artillery

113th Infantry

5th Sqdn, 117th Cavalry

10 SEPTEMBER 1986

GOVERNOR THOMAS H. KEAN

Major General Francis R. Gerard

Plaque 12:

TENNESSEE

IN HONOR OF THOSE

TENNESSEANS WHO

PARTICIPATED IN THE

BATTLE OF NORMANDY

JUNE 1944

Plaque 13:

VIRGINIA

REMEMBERS THE

116TH REGIMENTAL

COMBAT TEAM

6 JUNE 1944

Plaque 14:

STATE OF WASHINGTON

IN MEMORY OF

NATIONAL GUARDSMEN WHO SERVED

IN THE BATTLE OF NORMANDY

103RD ANTI TANK BN

768TH F A BN

769TH F A BN

803RD F A BN

805TH F A BN