Barren Countians who became prisoners of war through the misfortunes of war were sometimes unwillingly abandoned by their country, abused, starved, and exposed to unspeakable cruelties, yet their loyalty and sacrifice remained an inspiration to their countrymen. Those named were David L. Watkins in World War I; in World War II in the Philippines, Woods Richardson, Frank J. Chism, Dellas Crowe, Clifford C. Hines, Richard C. Kadel, James L. Matthews, Kenneth R. Miller, Joseph Nespojohn, and Arthur J. Poynter; in World War II in Europe, James W. Alspaugh, Clyde Maynard Brown, James Thomas Bunch, Samuel Kenneth Gray, Lawrence Wesley Groce, Royce Hammer, James Clarence Lyons, Robert Leland Miller, James Robert Pursley, Robert Thomerson, and Levis E. Williams; and in Korea, Eldridge Leon Ritter, Eugene Davis Shaw, and Stanley G. Zimmerman. Woods Richardson, Frank J. Chism, James L. Matthews, and David L. Watkins were identified as having lost their lives while prisoners.