There is a World War II memorial on the border of Newton and Andover Township on Route 206 in Sussex County. It is dedicated to the USS Bunker Hill.

The ship has no connection to New Jersey. It was built in Massachusetts and was ported in the Pacific. It was also dive-bombed by the Japanese off Okinawa.

But after the war, someone built the memorial in New Jersey.

As Memorial Day weekend approaches, the Andover Police Department is making sure the monument is in good shape. Officers were seen polishing the plaque and cleaning the site.

Nearly 350 sailors were killed in the 1945 attack. Somebody in Sussex County must have been personally touched because they built the memorial. It is not known by whom.

Through the decades, the site became overgrown and left forgotten, but the Andover Police Department is making sure that doesn’t happen again.