Wisconsin Square
{{Short description|Park in Norfolk, Virginia, United States}}
Wisconsin Square is a small park on Norfolk, Virginia's Elizabeth River waterfront, opposite the berth of the berth of the {{USS|Wisconsin|BB-64|6}}, a museum ship. It contains memorials to the seamen lost while serving on United States Navy ships homeported in Norfolk.
It also contains the ship's bell of {{USS|Norfolk|DL-1}} and a copy of The Lone Sailor.{{cite web|url=https://www.downtownnorfolk.org/go/the-lone-sailor |title=Wisconsin Square on Downtown Norfolk}}
Memorials
Wisconsin Square contains memorials to fallen US Navy personnel that were home ported in Norfolk.
- {{USS|Kearsarge|CV-33}}, 30 sailors lost in 1948{{cite web |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-101472381.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110517023533/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-101472381.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2011-05-17 |title= MONUMENT TO KEARSAGE DEATHS READIED FOR WISCONSIN SQUARE |accessdate= 2008-02-23}}
- {{USS|Forrestal|CV-59}}, for those lost in the 1967 USS Forrestal fire
- {{USS|Liberty|AGTR-5}}, for those killed in the 1967 USS Liberty incident
- {{USS|Scorpion|SSN-589}}, lost with all hands in 1968
- {{USS|Newport News|CA-148}}, for crew lost in a 1972 misfire
- {{USS|Nimitz|CVN-68}}, for the crew lost in the 1981 flight deck crash
- {{USS|Iowa|BB-61}}, for the crew lost in the 1989 turret explosion
- {{USS|Cole|DDG-67}}, for the crew lost in the 2000 suicide bombing
- The Pentagon, September 11, 2001
References
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Category:Virginia municipal and county parks
Category:Parks in Norfolk, Virginia
Category:Monuments and memorials in Virginia
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