Harnett County honors those who served their country and remembers county veterans who lost their lives in World War I, World War II, the Korean Conflict, and the Vietnam Era, while also memorializing lost shipmates of USS Harnett County LST-821 in the U.S. Navy; it also identifies the Harnett County Board of Commissioners of 1917–1918 and 1941–1945 and members of the Harnett County Memorial Association, including Fred D. Jackson, L. B. McLean, Francis Duncan, Carl A. Byrd, L.E. McKnight, O.K. Keen, and Frank Lewis.