Jackson Veterans Memorial Park is dedicated to the men and women of the Armed Forces of the United States of America. In this hallowed place, the sons and daughters of Butts County who died so that liberty might live are remembered: in World War I, Jesse L. Caston, Jessie E. Cornwell, James W. Finley, Howard Lee Minter, Matthew Ramsey, Calvin Ridgeway, Harold Thompson, and Luther Watson; in World War II, James J. Burford, Joel T. Byrd, Charles E. Carr, Lamar Carr, Elmer L. Carruthers, Fred Copeland Cook, Edwin W. Cook, James E. Duffey, Ted Elesman, Harold C. Evans, Morris F. Faulkner, Harold T. Gilmore, Augustun Gray, A. J. Grier, John M. Hamlin, Hugh T. Harrison, Robert C. Hammond, Charles A. Hardy, Lamar S. Hardy, George W. Hoard, J. C. Huggins, George T. James, Walter H. King, James Lee, Robert W. Letson, Jamison C. Maddox, Stancil Maddox, Fred C. Moore, Parks Nelson, Henderson Newton, James L. O'Kelley, Edward Pike, Leonard Clarence Pippin, Talmadge Powell, Robert C. Reynolds, Walter B. Roper, Richard Showmaker, James B. Singley, Otis Smith, James D. Stephen, Charles Thornton, William M. Thornton, W. A. “Jeff” Thurmand, Glen Womble, and Luther Eusery; in Korea, Richard W. Bunn, John H. Haddock, and Carl L. Kelly; in Vietnam, Phillip G. Turner and Clarence A. Whitehead; and in the War on Terror, Robert A. Worthington.