MILITARY · WAR MEMORIAL
Those who paid the Supreme Sacrifice
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During World War I, from April 6, 1917 to November 11, 1918, Thomas Jefferson Gearen and Jessie James Rainwater gave their lives. During World War II, from December 7, 1941 to September 2, 1945, Woodrow Wilson Alston, Norris Bennett, John Laird Boyd, Louis Cooper, George L. Dodgen, Arley A. Doyle, Huey Gearen, Willie Warren German, Charles W. Gilland, Jack Inman, Paul L. Joffrion, Lucien R. Johnson, Grover Clayton Justus, James E. Kendall, Paul Eugene Lyles, Avery E. Perkins, Paul Perkins, Harold E. Rainwater, James W. Stanfield, William Everett Whiddon, William C. Wells, and Merrill White gave their lives. During the Korean War, from June 25, 1951 to July 27, 1953, Donald Graham, James J. Williams, and Sherrell E. Isdale Jr. gave their lives. During the Vietnam Conflict, beginning August 5, 1964, F. I. “Sonny” Granger, Tracy R. Hyatt, Ruben Jones Jr., William W. Pharris, and Claiborne J. Skinner gave their lives. As the inscription says, “They shall not grow old as we who are left grow old. Age shall not weary them nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun we shall remember them.”
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