Brazoria has been home to many heroes who gave the ultimate sacrifice in the line of duty as they built, protected, and honored the city. Those remembered include the fallen of the Battle for Texas Independence at the Battle of Velasco in June 1832: Capt. Aylett Buckner, Jose, Buckner’s Mexican servant, Andrew Castleman, Matthew Kinds, Edward Robertson, William S. Smith, and Leancer Woods; at the Alamo on March 6, 1836: Robert Cochron, Green Jamison, Amos Pollard, Jesse G. Thompson, and William Willis; at the Massacre at Goliad on March 27, 1836: William S. Brown, James Fannin, and Perry Reese; and in the Mier Expedition from 1842 to 1844: James Austin. Also remembered are Brazoria’s dead of the Civil War, 1861 to 1865: Thomas Barrington, William Duncan, John B. Estes, Abner Jackson, Andrew Jackson, George McNeel, Granville McNeel, Pleasant McNeel, David Mims, Sam Mims, William Ward, and John A. Wharton; and members of the United States of America military combat forces who died in World War I, 1914 to 1918: Ransom O’Neil, Richard Bivins, and Edwin F. Hodgson; in World War II, 1939 to 1945: Sidney Curtis, March 24, 1945; in Korea, 1950 to 1953: Ralph L. Perrin, July 25, 1950, Glen Gray, August 1, 1950, Bernard E. Weichman, March 31, 1951, Norman L. Whitaker, July 7, 1952, and James E. Anderson, July 16, 1951; in Vietnam, 1960 to 1975: John A. Nevels, February 18, 1968; and in Operation Enduring Freedom Iraq, 2003: Phillip A. Jordan, March 23, 2003.