The Memorial

Oregon spent decades without a memorial to its Second World War dead. The Oregon World War II Memorial Foundation set out to fix that, raised more than a million dollars from Oregonians, and built it on the Capitol grounds at Court and Cottage Streets in Salem.

It is a black granite obelisk with a wall of names around it, and panels telling the story of where Oregonians went and what happened here while they were gone. There is no gate and no admission. It is state ground, open at any hour.