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Riverside National Cemetery is home of the Medal of Honor Memorial, one of four sites in the United States recognized by the U.S. Congress as a National Medal of Honor Memorial Site. The Medal of Honor Memorial, whose walls feature the names of all medal recipients, is located at the third traffic circle in the cemetery. It was dedicated at a ...
Initially, Villegas was buried at Riverside's Olivewood Cemetery in 1949. His remains were reinterred to become the first veteran buried at the Riverside National Cemetery when that cemetery opened on November 11, 1978. [7] [8] Villegas was the first Riverside County resident to receive the Medal of Honor. [9]
Medal of Honor recipients John H. Balch, Walter D. Ehlers, Lewis Millett, Mitchell Paige, and Ysmael R. Villegas. See also: Riverside National Cemetery: Notable interments: Riverside National Cemetery Veterans Department: Riverside National Cemetery: Ryan Ranch Cemetery: Joshua Tree National Park
Salvador J. Lara, World War II Medal of Honor recipient; John N. Lotz, Air National Guard Brigadier General; Hoyt S. Vandenberg, Jr., U.S. Air Force Major General; Ysmael R. Villegas (1924–1945), first Medal of Honor recipient from Riverside County, California, now buried at Riverside National Cemetery as the cemetery's first interment. [11]
Lara's brother Alfonzo accepted the Medal of Honor on behalf of his late brother during a White House ceremony on March 18, 2014. Members of Lara's family received the Medal of Honor flag from Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel in a March 19, 2014, ceremony when Lara was inducted into the Pentagon Hall of Heroes.
Medal of Honor recipient Hans A. Hansen died August 23, 1949, at Toms River, New Jersey, and is buried in Riverside Cemetery, Toms River, New Jersey. Hansen's obituary in the August 24, 1949 Asbury Park, New Jersey Press newspaper read: Hans Anton Hansen TOMS RIVER. - Hans Anton Hansen, 71, died yesterday on the porch of his home at 72 Dayton ...
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Mitchell Paige (Mihajlo Pejić) (August 31, 1918 – November 15, 2003) was an American retired United States Marine Corps colonel who received the nation's highest military decoration for valor in combat, the Medal of Honor, during World War II.