More than 110 Belleville sons died in World War II. Nutley sent 2,882 men and women into service during WWII, 92 never came home. Remember their sacrifice as you enjoy the freedom they died to preserve.
Belleville Sons Honor Roll - Normandy Invasion
Nutley Sons Honor Roll - Normandy Invasion
K.O. Pat Francisco POW at Cherbourg
Falduti parachutes into Ste. Mere Eglise
MEMORIAL GREENS
We remember our war dead
with their names raised
on bronze and etched in stone
We remember their lives
and families’ sacrifice:
The best and the brightest
and the bravest, too.
We forget the children
they left with lonely spouses,
we never saw the long tears,
And the proud sadness of those
who gave us their loved ones.
On these memorial greens
we gather to remember the sons,
the fathers the homes, the children
and stop to say thanks
for the price you paid
for our freedom to gather
on these memorial greens in peace.
National World War II Museum
American Battle Monument Commission
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