Guidelines

CENTRAL FLORIDA VETERAN’S MEMORIAL PARK

GUIDELINES FOR INCLUSION OF NAMES

Inclusive dates and guidelines for inclusion of names of fallen service members are those we have confirmed from the Department of Defense and other reliable data bases.

The Central Florida Veterans Memorial Park Foundation, Inc., maintains an inclusive policy, permitting names to be placed on the wall with proper documentation for review by our Honors Resolution Committee.

FIRST WORLD WAR

Worldwide military deaths cover the period April 6, 1917, to November 11, 1918, including air service. Battle deaths include casualties suffered by American forces in northern Russia to August 25, 1919, and in Siberia to April 1, 1920.

SECOND WORLD WAR

Worldwide military deaths cover the period December 7, 1941, through December 31, 1946, when hostilities were officially terminated by Presidential Proclamation, but a few battle deaths or wounds not mortal were incurred after the Japanese acceptance of the Allied peace terms on August 14, 1945.

KOREAN WAR

Worldwide military deaths cover the period June 27, 1950 through July 27, 1953.

VIETNAM WAR

In theater of operations deaths cover the period August 5, 1964 (“Vietnam era” begins) through January 27, 1973 (date of cease-fire). Deaths include the period February 28, 1961 (commencement date for the Military Assistance Advisory Group) through May 7, 1975 (date last American service member left Southeast Asia).

PERSIAN GULF WAR  (OPERATION DESERT STORM)

In theater of operations deaths cover the period August 2, 1990 to April 6, 1991.

SOMALIA

AFGHANISTAN

In theater of operations deaths cover the period October 7, 2001 to present

IRAQ

In theater of operations deaths cover the period March 17, 2003 to August 31, 2010.

OPERATION NEW DAWN – September 1, 2010 to present.

 NOTE 1: There are three principal guidelines that apply to all of the fallen so inscribed on the memorial.

  1. The name of the fallen from a particular county is based upon the record of the county in which service member entered service.   Alternatively, this is their home of record county, or where the immediate family members live.
  2. Worldwide military deaths are those occurring while a service member is on active duty with a military organization in any location during the dates indicated or a subsequent death due to wounds incurred during the dates indicated.
  3. Military deaths in a theater of operations are those occurring while a service member is on active duty with a military organization in a location within the active theater of operations. For example, for the Vietnam War and all subsequent wars and conflicts to the present date, military deaths are those which occur in the theater of operations in the waters and countries adjacent to South Vietnam, or Iraq, Kuwait, Afghanistan, as designated by the Department of Defense at that time and for the dates indicated.

NOTE 2:  Source of listing American Battle Monuments Commission for the dates for the First and Second World Wars, and Korea.  US Army Center of Military History is the source for the inclusive dates of the first Gulf War and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

POLICY FOR ADDITIONS:

Consideration to allow a veteran’s name, who died in service to our country in the defined theater of conflict, to be added to the memorial is offered if the individual grew up, lived in one of our six counties or immediate family members are residents.  Our region is defined as Brevard, Lake, Orange, Osceola, Seminole and Volusia Counties.  There may be circumstances of enlistment or commissioning whereby a resident from our six-county region entered service from a location outside of our region.

For a list of documentation required and instructions to submit your request for consideration to allow a veterans name to be added to the Memorial,  or to advise of  errors or misspelling of names, click on Documents.