Seward County military personnel who were killed or missing in action overseas included Charles Maxwell, Alfred Lane, Lawrence M. Wimmer, Lee Larner, Tommy Beecher, George W. Thompson, Clarence L. Higgins, Herman Kimball, and Muron W. Nelson in World War I; Theodore H. Frankee, Henry H. Graber, Donald V. Harvey, Charles H. Hubbard, Roy A. Hunt, Victor J. May, Charles E. Miller, Thomas R. Newell, Richard L. Ridenour, Rodney W. Selfridge, David A. Williams, Loren D. Feese, John Hatcher, Kenneth Hawk, Rayburn White, Burton Williams, Clifford H. Wilmut, Orval R. Lee, Delmar Stump, and Francis Claude Laird in World War II; Merle L. Cole Jr., Charles Baird, Donavan Morrison, and Oscar E. Bruner in the Korean War; Allen R. Bradford, Edward L. Craig, George L. Cruse, Roy A. Lamon, Eldon D. Long, John A. Love, Patrick E. O’Brien, Raymond D. Regier, Jackie L. Swink, Larry D. Warren, Russel D. Whelchel, and John E. Winters in the Vietnam War; and Jose S Marin Dominquez Jr. and Jared C Plunk in the Global War on Terrorism.