Men from Columbus County gave their lives so that other men might live free, including Korean casualties Calvin Bennett, Howard G. Norris, Ossie M. Gunter, Floyd H. Sellers, Herbert Smith, Sidney Johnson, and Ernest Rackley, and Vietnam casualties Bryant Russell Powell, Charles Elbert Tanner, Willie Frazer Shipman, Pearly Junior Thomas, Larest Clennon Sutton, William M. Baldwin, Harry K. Cartrette, Roy E. Congleton, Kenneth Ray Godwin, Archie Lee Bordeaux, Benjamin James Gore, Jack Walters, Jr., Wade Taste, Eugene Fipps, Edward Barden, Frank Simmons, Josiah Smith, Jr., Edward Earl Dew, Mack D. Todd, Jr., Stedman Adams, Jr., Eddie Lee Locklear, Marcus S. Turner, Jr., Robert Junior McGee, and Larry Lee.