The boys of West Elizabeth answered the call of their country to make the world safe for democracy: Harold L. Adams, Gad T. Adams, Robert E. Adams, Edgar P. Lewis, Charles R. Roberts, Leroy M. Lewis, William L. Watson, Alfred Price, George Zets, Clyde G. Jones, James F. Cruthers, Lester J. Hendershot, William P. Ghrist, Roy D. Kisner, Guy Z. Stover, Stanley S. McGuire, Walter A. Webb, Thomas Williams, Ross Wilkinson, Paul Krepps, Ivo Salvini, James Eisel, Peter Zetts, Alonzo O. Jones, Thomas B. Welsh, John Morelli, Chester E. Morgan, Thomas Pavich, Earl Hooper, James M. Shoaf, Christopher F. Braum, Joseph P. Kelly, James A Yules, Gustave A. Duerr, Robert E. McKee, John J. Ullrich, Arthur K. Keister, William H. Corron, John N. Radcliffe, Dennis M. White, Harry A. Jenkins, George M. Kelly, William F. Rike, Paul Dowlin, William E. Sheehy, John A. Cox, Joseph Tavano, George Chullop, John P. Currie, John S. Magill, Matthew Cunningham, and Walter S. Matter. Their service was honored with the words, "That this 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."