Surry County honors the men and women from the county who made the ultimate sacrifice in service to their country, from the Revolutionary War, Mexican American War, and Civil War through World War I, World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the Operation Enduring Freedom era, and includes Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg words that these dead shall not have died in vain, that the nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.