Eden World War II Memorial

Count the Fullers on this stone and you understand what the war cost one small valley. Eden, a farm town at the head of Ogden Valley, sent dozens of its young men to the Second World War, and five of them were Fullers — Jack, Mack, Marvin, Norman, and Shirley. Jack Fuller did not come home; his name carries the mark of the killed. The same web of families repeats down the list: Chambers, Eggleston, Hogge, Robinson, Storey, brothers and cousins gone together. "Freedom Is Not Free," the memorial says, and here the bill came itemized by household.

What the plaque says

Jay Bachman Lee C. Chambers Myron Chambers William Chambers Bill Clarke Dale Eggleston DeLoss Eggleston Melvin Eggleston Donald Pertin John Ferin Jack Fuller (KIA) EMack Fuller Marvin Fuller Norman Fuller DeWayne Guthrie Donald Guthrie Elmer Hogge Floyd Hogge Melvin Hogge Fred Robins Kay Robins Lawrence D. Robinson Lee C. Robinson Lorin L. Robinson Blake Storey Elmer Storey Don Thompson John Wilson Shirley Fuller Freedom Is Not Free

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Powder Mountain — 5.9 mi
  The largest ski resort in the United States by acreage — a famously uncrowded "PowMow" now remaking itself under Netflix's Reed Hastings.
• Snowbasin — 6.1 mi
  One of the country's oldest ski areas and a 2002 Olympic downhill venue — world-class terrain that somehow still skis uncrowded.
• Ogden Union Station — 9.8 mi
  A grand 1924 train depot turned museum complex
• Hill Aerospace Museum — 14 mi
  Over 90 military aircraft displayed indoors and on the tarmac

More markers nearby

• Liberty — 3.5 mi
• Huntsville — 3.5 mi
• Mary Heathman Smith — 3.5 mi
• Captain Jefferson Hunt — 3.5 mi