Duplin County honored the memory of its sons who gave their lives in the Korean War, 1951-1953: Orlin Norwood Lanier of Warsaw Township, James Daniel Merritt, Jr. of Faison Township, William Daniel Price of Kenansville Township, James Ralph Thompson of Wolfscrape Township, Alton Lewis Tadlock of Faison Township, Reynolds Williams of Limestone Township, John Donald Dail of Wolfscrape Township, John William Uptegrove of Faison Township, Craig Hinton Hearn of Teachey, Freeman Earl Boykin of Faison Township, Hallie William Wilson, Jr. of Warsaw Township, Elmer Jasper Branch of Glisson Township, Joseph Sanders Flowers of Calypso Community, Earl Thomas Brinson of Island Creek Township, and James Edward Swinson of Friendship Community, who served in the U.S. Army as privates, corporals, and privates first class and were listed as killed in action, missing in action, or prisoner of war.