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February 24, 2026 in-person drop-in
For those unable to use email, come submit names on paper for the Honor Roll. Come casually view displays to remember our EP veterans.
An informal drop-in, to remember our veterans and military service members, will be held at
Weaver Library, 41 Grove Ave., East Providence, RI
on Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2026 from 1-3 pm.
(Note there is no similar event at the EP Rock Senior Center in Feb. this year.)
Come and hand in new names and updates (promotions, retirements, deaths) on paper for the EP Military Service Honor Roll. Any E. Prov. resident (and Seekonk, MA residents who attended EP High School) who served or is currently serving our country (includes National Guard) during a war (from WWII to present) and/or peace time is eligible. Basic info includes: in memory of (dead) or in honor of (alive), last name, first name, middle initial or name, which war event or peace time years served. Other details: rank, service branch, years, country served in, job description, awards/medals, military photo (Bring a photo to be digitally photographed. The original photo will be returned to you.).
Example: in memory of Unkuski, Private First Class Charles, J., WWII, Army, 14th Armored Division, Wounded in action (WIA), then died of wounds (DOW) in France on Jan. 16, 1945.
His Division helped rescue and free prisoners in German concentration camps. His memorial is at Wilson Ave. and Hoyt Ave. in Rumford. See the VWIWMIEP book for photos and more biographical details.
Or email names, any time throughout the year, with as many details as possible, to epvme @hotmail. com If submitted prior to Feb. 28, the names will appear on the updated list to be posted in March 2026.
A paper copy of the 55 pages long 2025 EP Military Service Honor Roll will be available for viewing.
Help will be offered to locate this virtual Honor Roll and the list of the names of the 2125 EP High School students who served in WWII (2 memorial plaques on W. B. Pierce Memorial Stadium gates, Pierce Field), on the EPVMER2021 website at sites.google.com/view/epvmer2021 so you can bookmark it to explore its visual tributes, the live EPVMER2021 ceremony, history, etc. later.
View a copy of the reference book "Veterans with Individual War Memorials in E. Prov., RI".
Colorful notecards and a large city map showing the locations of the 16 EP Veterans’ Memorial Expressway (EPVME, I-195) bridge memorial plaques will be on display.
Sets of 20 notecards and envelopes will be available for a suggested $15 donation or individual cards for 75 cents each. (See notecard details below)
Discuss the locations of other war memorials in E. Providence.
Share memories of EP before the I-195 expressway was built. Where are the houses now? Do you live in or near a house that was relocated in 1956-1957?
Sign a group birthday card. Or bring a birthday card to help celebrate our 100 year old veterans’ birthdays.
Remember the Veterans' Home in Bristol and VA Medical Center in Providence accept greeting cards year round.
(Read details on the "Send a Smile" tab.)
Read articles in the Feb. 2026 issue of the EP Reporter and the weekly EP Post.
https://www.reportertoday.com/eastprovidence/stories/submit-names-to-the-e-prov-military-service-honor-roll-in-person,49074
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in the November 2025 EP Reporter
Remembering our Veterans
https://www.reportertoday.com/eastprovidence/stories/remembering-our-veterans,48662?
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The EP Military Service Honor Roll will be updated and posted in early March 2026. Submit names by Feb. 28.
Please submit new submissions, corrections, deaths, promotions, mile-stone events, retirements, and updates.
in memory of (now dead) / in honor of (alive), last name, rank, first name, middle name or initial, service area, country/war, branch, awards/medals, etc.
Longer biographical information and a military photo (small <300kb size, not MB please) also can be submitted.
-Also collecting stories of personal memories of what EP was like, in the 1950s, before the EPVME and East Shore Expressway (ESE) were constructed. Where are the houses now that were moved to build the expressways?
- Updating the list of the 2125 EP High School Student names who served in WWII
The names were written in cursive and volunteers are sought to help decipher some of the name spellings. Inquire and the latest typed lists will be emailed to you to edit.
Six pages of names are missing. Thus, trying to fill in the last names ending with the letters G, O, and X. Please submit names. Or help research via looking through Crimson yearbooks. These yearbooks are on-line and at the city library.
Searching for a public location to display this list of 2125 EP high school veterans' names. Suggestions welcome.
- NOTECARD FUND RAISER
Color note cards of the EPVME bridge memorial plaques with envelopes
available via email.
Set of 20 cards : 16 plaques, 2 with flags on the Pierce Field Stadium gates,
Andrews Brothers Exit plaque and dedication wreath
Donation $15 per set of 20 cards, 75 cents per card
Contact epvme @ hotmail . com
Proceeds to be used to purchase permanent informative signs
about each veteran on his bridge memorial.
Ongoing events for our 250th anniversary of the USA in 2026:
Purchase and post biographical signs about each veteran on his EPVME bridge memorial. Ideas and donations accepted.
Donations accepted of silk/plastic flowers, small flags, and red ribbon or bows to decorate the bridge memorial plaques.
Volunteers to place these decorations are welcomed.
Updated January 26, 2026
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