This field of honor is a memorial tribute to men and women who served the country in war and peace, with special attention to Jackson County service in World War I, World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. In World War I, one hundred and twenty-three young men from Jackson County formed D Company, 4th Wisconsin, in 1917, trained in Waco, Texas, became C Company, 107th Ammunition Train, 32nd Division, fought in France at Chateau Thierry and the Argonne forest, helped carry the war into Germany, and returned home on May 28, 1919, while a total of 625 county personnel served in that conflict. The account places their service within the larger causes and course of the war, from European alliances and the assassination at Sarajevo to American entry after the Lusitania sinking and the Zimmerman Note, the offensives at Belleau Wood and the Argonne Forest, the armistice on November 11, 1918, and the Treaty of Versailles, which it says helped sow the seeds of World War II. In World War II, more than 1,500 Jackson County men and women are estimated to have served, some present at Pearl Harbor and in the Philippines when war began, and others later fighting in North Africa, Italy, France, the Philippines, New Guinea, and Malaysia, or serving across the oceans and skies, with some never returning and none unchanged. Their service is set within the wider war in the Pacific and Europe, including Pearl Harbor, the Doolittle raid, Coral Sea, Midway, island campaigns across the Pacific, the return to the Philippines, the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the war against Germany in North Africa, Sicily, Italy, the Normandy invasion, the Battle of the Bulge, and Germany's surrender, alongside national totals of more than sixteen million who served and almost one million casualties. In the Korean War, no exact count is given for Jackson County service, but many local men and women served in all branches, including veterans of World War II who returned to duty, with some facing combat against Chinese forces, service on tanks and patrols, support in jets and ships, medical work, transport of the dead, and even prison camps. Their experience is placed in the context of Korea's division at the thirty-eighth parallel, the North Korean invasion in June 1950, the Pusan perimeter, the Inchon landing, the crossing into North Korea, Chinese intervention across the Yalu River, prolonged cease-fire talks, and the truce of July 27, 1953 that left Korea permanently divided. In the Vietnam War, 409 Jackson County citizens served, many in combat and support roles, four were killed in action, and many more were injured, some permanently, as local families lived through years of both support and opposition while still taking pride in those who served. Their service is placed within the broader conflict after French colonial rule, American backing of South Vietnam, the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, the arrival of combat troops in 1965, rising troop strength and casualties, the Tet Offensive, anti-war protest, Vietnamization, the Cambodia invasion, the end of American combat in 1973, the final withdrawal in 1975, and the fall of Saigon, with national totals of two million who served, 153,329 wounded, and 57,690 killed.