280 men and two women from Delaware County, including Springfield, perished in World War I as recorded on the memorial at the entrance of Smedley Park in Nether Providence Township, PA. Since then, Springfield residents have paid the price of 43 additional young lives, leaving their families and friends to grieve.

While we honor all of our nation’s fallen each Memorial Day, since 2010, Memorial Day remembrances in the Springfield community, led by Post 227, focused on individual fallen heroes.  In 2021, in recognition of the 80th anniversary of the United States' entry into WWII, Springfield focuses its remembrance on all its 33 killed and missing sons from that war.