In 1917 and 1918, in the hope that freedom, law, and justice might be established throughout the Earth, the men of Hanska and vicinity who answered their country's call in the World War were Oscar O. Haugen, John Thordson, Willie Bakken, Elmer Grotta, Lars Melheim, John Helget, William Greenholz, Theodore N. R. Berge, Wilhelm Johnson, Stanley Anderson, Joseph Bottom, Elvin G. Helling, Albert Vaage, Emil Sletta, and Hans Vegum.