Walnut Creek honored those of its sons who gave their lives for freedom in Viet Nam from 1965 to 1975: Robert J. Reilly Jr., John P. Burke, Frank C. Torres Jr., James K. Koehler, David A. Oberle, Richard Curtis, Willard E. Nelson, Ernest F. Lawrence, Bruce F. McMillan, Fred J. Hayes, Robert S. Croke, Rene G. Bauman, James P. Young, W. Kevin Laine, David R. Turner, Robert H. Burges, and Jerry V. Ryan, who served in the USMC, Army, and Navy.