Wisconsin Square Explained

Wisconsin Square is a small park on Norfolk, Virginia's Elizabeth River waterfront, opposite the berth of the berth of the, a museum ship. It contains memorials to the seamen lost while serving on United States Navy ships homeported in Norfolk.

It also contains the ship's bell of and a copy of The Lone Sailor.^[1]

Memorials

Wisconsin Square contains memorials to fallen US Navy personnel that were home ported in Norfolk.

• , 30 sailors lost in 1948^[2]
• , for those lost in the 1967 USS Forrestal fire
• , for those killed in the 1967 USS Liberty incident
• , lost with all hands in 1968
• , for crew lost in a 1972 misfire

• , for the crew lost in the 1981 flight deck crash
• , for the crew lost in the 1989 turret explosion
• , for the crew lost in the 2000 suicide bombing
• The Pentagon, September 11, 2001

References

1. Web site: Wisconsin Square on Downtown Norfolk.
2. Web site: MONUMENT TO KEARSAGE DEATHS READIED FOR WISCONSIN SQUARE . https://web.archive.org/web/20110517023533/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-101472381.html . dead . 2011-05-17 . 2008-02-23.