A Place of Honor Traditional Cache
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This cache is on easy terrain, nearby on-street parking and is wheelchair accessible. The cache was deactivated during the Veterans Park renovation of 2008 and is now located 102 ft from its original location.
Located in downtown Warren, Ohio, this cache rests among the memorials of those who gave all. From Gettysburg to Pusan and Normandy to Da Nang, Trumbull County residents who were Americans first are memorialized in this small park. The park was the sight of an effort to arrange the park in a more chronological order. Local Vietnam Veteran Jim Rapone also worked with former Copperweld Steel employee Tom Namola to relocate a memorial that had been originally placed 3 miles north of this location on now defunct Copperweld property. When looking for the cache, note the subtle solemnity of the monuments that have coexisted with the busy downtown for more than 150 years. Reflect on those who died to keep us free. During 2008, the Memorial Park underwent a major renovation. Retired Marines SGT James Rapone and a team of volunteers coordinated the project. What follows is Rapones description of the renovation: "The Veterans Memorial Park was somewhat in place for years under no specific name just a bunch of memorials on a grassy knoll overlooking the Mahoning River. The original memorials were the Civil War, a cannon from the Civil War and a cannon from the Spanish America War and the WWI Doughboy. The Doughboy, I would have to research when it was dedicated but I think it was 1941 long after WWI ended in 1918. The Civil War memorial has a date engraved on it and I believe it was somewhere around 1895. The cannons no record to my knowledge. Later somewhere around 1984 and the dates are all not actual the Vietnam memorial was placed there with the help of volunteers and private money, then several years later the Korean memorial was place same way and finally the a Women's memorial same way. The interesting thing was that Warren City did not have a WWII memorial downtown other then a monument in Perkins Park on the north end, simply out of the way and out of the publics mind. The idea to create a WWII memorial and place in on the grass with the others came up for discussion but who,what,when, where and how. A former Marine Lt. Bill Muter Vietnam vet had the idea and that is a really long story died and the idea went with him for over a year. The Trumbull One Hundred organization, a group of civic-minded business people in Trumbull Co, got together and wanted to re-visit this memorial idea. That's when I was asked to join a adhoc committee of community leaders and start the idea rolling again. The committe had 8 in all. Two years of meetings, fund raising, promotional presentations to whomever would listen and a lot of rubbing elbows with everyone we could, took this simple statue idea and turned it into a $500,000.00 project and a wonderful memorial park rather then just a statue on a grassy knoll overlooking the Mahoning River. The labor unions, trade unions like bricklayers, electrical, masonary, Warren City and various local businesses like Gibson Construction gave a foreman and all their equipment, Baker Bednar Architect designed the entire memorial from bricks to lighting, Adgate Landscaping, Warren Concrete and state political people got behind this along with a major resource called the Tribune with barrels of Ink and truck loads of paper to promote this project to the community. The brick purchase barely covered the materials, it was the donations from individuals, businesses, foundations, and volunteers who made this idea a reality."
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