Middle East Veterans Memorial

Veterans who made the ultimate sacrifice serving in the Middle East will be honored in the seven-county region. They will be honored at the new memorial on a 1.5-acre site at Park Place and W. Wilson Street in Hebron, IN. The Friends of the Veterans Memorial Parkway are working to build the Middle East Veterans Memorial for the fallen and the thousands of veterans from Northwest Indiana who served in the Persian Gulf War, the Iraq War, and the War in Afghanistan, as well as Syria, Lebanon, Beirut and other places in the Middle East.

Hebron is leasing land off State Road 231 for 99 years for the memorial, part of the Veterans Memorial Parkway that's also just 2.1 miles north of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial at Stoney Run County Park. Veterans from the Middle East will help design the new memorial, which also will recognize PTSD and other problems veterans have suffered since returning home.

The Northwest Indiana Middle East Memorial is important to our entire community because it recognizes those that not only served during this time but those that made the ultimate sacrifice. See Article