The memorials by war and by institution

1924–2019 · county and campus, boundary size

Notre Dame's memorials stand at boundary size, the university's ground being its own, and they are the county's densest memorial ground. The World War I Memorial Door, in the east transept of the Basilica of the Sacred Heart, was dedicated on Memorial Day, May 30, 1924, by the university's president, the Rev. Matthew Walsh; designed by Francis Kervick and Vincent Fagan, its tablets name the 56 Notre Dame dead of the roughly 2,500 who served, under the inscriptions "God, Country, Notre Dame" and, on the lintel, "In Glory Everlasting!" Bronze plaques were placed in late 1925; statues of St. Joan of Arc and St. Michael were installed in May 1944. The design had been approved in January 1923 by a committee that included the university's own VFW post — a campus post of the first VFW generation, noted here because it is the only VFW seat the county record places inside a single institution rather than a city. The Clarke Memorial Fountain — "Stonehenge" — was dedicated in 1986 (Mass of October 17, 1986), conceived by President the Rev. Theodore Hesburgh and designed by architect John Burgee (Notre Dame '56): four triliths facing the cardinal directions, a war engraved on each lintel, honouring the roughly 500 Notre Dame alumni killed in World War II, Korea, and Vietnam; ROTC keeps a vigil there each Veterans Day.

The city's war-specific parks are kept distinct, as the row directs. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial of St. Joseph County stands in Howard Park, 219 S. St. Louis Boulevard, South Bend — the city's riverfront parks plan places the Vietnam Memorial and the Workers Memorial in Howard Park — and the park's 2019-era redevelopment carried the memorial landscape forward. Veterans Memorial Park, at 1621 Northside Boulevard, South Bend, is the city's general veterans' park under South Bend Venues Parks & Arts. The Wall That Heals, the traveling replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, stood at St. Joseph Cemetery, South Bend, September 19–22, 2019, with a Mass by Bishop Rhoades (Today's Catholic).

At the airport's main entrance stands the memorial ground a traveler meets first: the Military Honor Park and Museum, 4300 Terminal Drive, South Bend. It began as a dream in 1995; its first piece was a mounted RT-33 Lockheed trainer jet; its ground is laid out as a pentagon for the five branches, with five bronze service plaques and their flags, more than 3,500 named bricks, and a granite Battle of the Bulge monument dedicated in May 2011 with the assistance of Geza Csapo. The museum holds artifacts from all United States conflicts and a research library, open Saturday 10–5 and Sunday 12–5 for a small admission (574-232-4300), and on Veterans Day, November 11, admission is free for veterans, 10 a.m.–4 p.m. (Tribune, November 2026 listing). To these the banked fragment adds Granger's own memorial ground — the two 1965 dedication flagpoles at St.