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The Veterans Memorial Wall is located at 1145 East Adams Street, adjacent to the Jacksonville Municipal Stadium in downtown Jacksonville, Florida. The quarter-million dollar monument was dedicated in November, 1995 and serves as an inspiring tribute to more than 1,500 area war heroes who died defending our nation. The outdoor memorial was promoted as the largest of its kind and the only wall that honors veterans from all service branches (Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force, Coast Guard and Merchant Marine). The beautiful, 65 foot-long black granite monument contains the names of servicemen and women from World War I through Operation Desert Storm and the current war on terrorism.

The Wall is the site of the city's Memorial Day ceremony, when any local servicewomen and men who lost their lives in the prior year are honored and their names added to the obelisque.

When built, it was located just eight feet from the Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Coliseum and extraordinary measures were taken to protect it when the Coliseum was demolished in 2003. When all of the debris was removed and the site restored to grade, the Memorial was surrounded by a two-acre walking park.