The Saturday before Memorial Day, the Nesquehoning Lions Club dedicated two new monuments to the deceased veterans of Nesquehoning. The purchase of these new stones was made possible by the sale of the Lions Club building.

The first monuments were erected by the club on August 1995 on the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II.On May 25, 2013 two new monuments were dedicated ... one the unveiling of the Korean Conflict Memorial and the other the Iwo Jima Memorial.Approximately 100 people attended the program on a very windy but yet nostalgic day. A special guest, a resident of Nesquehoning, Tom Merman was on hand with his son Thomas A. Merman, Jr. of the U.S. Army. In 1942, Tom, Sr. was drafted into the Army. He trained in England for the D-day Invastion of Normandy on the French coast. His unit was then reassigned to Third Army, Europe, under the command of General George S. Paton. Tom fought in the Battle of the Bulge outside Bastogne, Belgium in the Ardennes Forest. He spent 283 consecutive days at the front with his unit and without relief. At the end of the war, he was assigned to Bertesgarten, Hitler's Eagle's Nest retreat.During the ceremony the opening prayer was given by the Rev. Francis Schoenhauer of St. Francis of Assisi and the closing prayer by Pastor Dale Oplinger of Meed's United Methodist Church.. Ted Dacey, VFW chaplain, led the memorial prayer. The Panther Valley High School JROTC led by Sgt. Joseph Jordan, raised the flags, and the UVO Firing Squad gave the salute.Merman placed the American flag in the Iwo Jima monument assisted by his son Thomas, an Army career military man.