Vintage Tribune: 'The Lt. Joseph T. McKeon Jr. Park consists of a few swings and such for kids and a bench for their parents. It might not catch a passerby’s eye except for a plaque at the corner of Wallace and 36th streets.'
Thank you for supporting our journalism. This article is available exclusively for our subscribers, who help fund our work at the Chicago Tribune.Children play at McKeon Park at the corner of 36th and Wallace streets in the Bridgeport neighborhood of Chicago on May 23, 2023. The park was dedicated to Lt. Joseph T. McKeon Jr. in 1967, after he was killed in Vietnam.
In 2010, a Tribune reporter visited a memorial in a South Side park. In front of the marker lay a wreath with a card reading: “In Memory Of Jim Clark Korean War Veteran.” “Neighbors of the McKeons raised the American flag outside their homes and walked to 36th and Wallace streets to watch the dedication of a park in McKeon’s honor,” a Tribune reporter observed.
The pastor of Nativity of Our Lord Catholic Church noted that McKeon didn’t have to return to Vietnam after his father died. He was entitled to remain in Bridgeport to take care of his mother. But he took President John F. Kennedy’s message to heart. “He knew what his country could do for him, and he knew what he must do for his country,” the priest said.
“Upstairs in the family apartment, a woman held out coffee for anybody walking in,” Breslin wrote. “When we realized what McKeon family lived in the house, the day grew disturbing.” Mayor Richard J. Daley, left, missed the Bridgeport playlot dedication for Lt. Joseph McKeon in 1967, but he was with Margaret"Peg" McKeon on April 21, 1968, at the Marine Training Center when the Silver Star was presented to her son, who was killed in Vietnam.
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