About the Project

HONORING MASSACHUSETTS VETERANS
WE CARE - WE REMEMBER

The purpose of this website is to educate and stimulate the viewer by featuring specific Veteran Memorials of all types erected by grateful communities across the Commonwealth. You will see simple, respectful and well maintained memorials, artistic, patriotic and the allegorical, wonderful statues and monuments, wooden and bronze honor rolls all dedicated to our hometown heroes who served our country with honor. Many of our sons and daughters paid the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom.

This website is just a sampling of the thousands of veteran memorials from the 351 cities and towns that I have visited. All have been photographed, catalogued and researched. Only about sixty-five communities are represented here, showing aproximately 100 photographs.

Ultimately, I envision a high quality 11x17, full color, 700-page coffee table style history book that lists and tells the inspiring stories behind these veteran memorials. The book itself will stand as a memorial. I am actively searching for a publisher. A book proposal and sample pages are available upon request. To date I have received only rejections from publishers but I am confident that as I pursue my dream and goal an appropriate publisher will be found. I can be reached at drindone@honorrollofliberty.com

It is impossible for me to thank all the wonderful people who for the past nine years have supported and assisted me on this project. However, on the website community pages represented, I have thanked those that did assist me from those communities. I do intend to thank each of you on your hometown page in the book. It should be noted that dozens of veteran agents, historical commission folks and ordinary citizens from across the state have submitted to me complete written monument lists and other pertinent information about their memorials. These important lists aided me when I visited your communities. Some veteran agents drove me to memorials in their community (Brockton, Hingham & Winthrop) so I could photograph and study them.

A very special thank you to the following people for extra effort and support, Fred Sweeney (Ashburnham), Barry Eager (Berlin), Jack Holbrook (Bolton), Robert Gale, Jr. (Brockton), Jane Drury (Chelmsford), Cindy Rindone, (East Longmeadow), Winsor Robinson (Gardner), Wyatt Garfield (Gosnold), Robert Haviland (Hingham), Smitty Pignatelli (Lenox), Gerald Schmera (Mansfield), David Rogers (Marblehead), Arthur Dickson (Martha's Vineyard), Arthur Richmond & James Pike (Melrose), Don Gagnon & Eric Alaimo (Methuen), John Pila & Paul Curran (Milford), Arnold Patterson (Nantucket), Brad Chase & John MacGuillivray (Natick), Alfred Guzzi Jr. (Newton), Robert Cahillane (Northampton), Joseph Williamson (Northbridge), Tim Callahan (North Reading), Richard Perron (Shrewsbury), William Wornham (Townsend), Kevin O'Connor (Tyngsborough), Bob Erickson (Watertown), John Turchinetz (Wayland), George Perry (Westborough), Hugh Lamb (Westfield), Carl Valente (Weston), Jim Berrilli (West Springfield), John Kennedy & Phylis Wiles (Williamstown), Charles Grout (Winchendon) and Lawrence Holmes (Winthrop). Over 300 people have assisted me thus far. My heartfelt thank you to all.

May God Bless Massachusetts Veterans' and Their Families