Farmington veterans served in the U.S. Army, U.S. Marine Corps, U.S. Navy, U.S. Air Force, and U.S. Coast Guard in conflicts from the Suppression of Pequots in 1637 and King Philip's War in 1675–76 through French and Indian skirmishes, the Defense of Litchfield, the Louisburg Expedition, the French and Indian Wars, the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Mexican War, the Civil War, the Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II, the Viet-Nam War, Lebanon Peace-Keeping, the Grenada Invasion, Operation Earnest Will, the Panama Invasion, and Operation Desert Storm, with the memorial listing by name those from Farmington who served in these campaigns.