Houston County honors all of its veterans and especially those who gave their lives during wartime in service to keeping the country a land of freedom. The dead named from World War I are Berry Boyd, Frank Bush, Fred Bush, Lonnie M. Lewis, Edward L. Mathis, William A. Mathis, George D. Outlaw, John N. Reddick, Oscar Ross, Roger W. Spears, John T. Warden, and Walter H. Wyatt. Those named from World War II are Thomas Rodney Averett, Baree Paul Bateman, Robert Boaz, Raymond Franklin Brake, James Chandler, Finis Chelsea Clark, William C. Clark, Lester B. Coakley, Julius Curtis, Lawrence Curtis, Nolie Dickson, Dudley Edwards, Owen Gray, Benjamin M. Harris, Lloyd E. Hay, Elton L. Hooper, Marion Jelks, John V. Keel, Robert L. Keeses, Wilton Knight, Percy Lyle, Richard Lyle, William Lee Madden, Cecil R. McElhiney, James Meadows, Marlin E. Meadows, Ottis O. Outlaw, Edward Parchman, James C. Parker, Lester Pulley, Alfred C. Rising, George Delmar 'Toby' Robbs, George Lee Sexton, and Herschel E. Tanner. Also named are Samuel Warden for Korea, Larry Steppe and Philip Warfield for Vietnam, Norman R. Rainwater Jr. for the Persian Gulf War, and Jeremy Shawn Bohannon for Operation Iraqi Freedom.