This memorial is dedicated to all veterans whose valor, blood, sweat, and tears triumphed over tyranny and urges remembrance of the sacrifice that millions of servicemen and women made for the country and its freedom, even when all their names may never be known, because they were patriots. It also honors those from Taylor County who were killed in action in World War I, World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the War on Terror: Capus Leggett, Oscar V. Howard, Thomas J. Jones, Shelly Brown, Nathanael Murry, Edward C. Mills, Hugh C. Blue, James R. Brock, Ralph L. Christy, George Connell, Robert Lee Faulkner, Ben B. Ferns, Jr., Melton Futch, James E. Gamble, F. M. Goodman, Rayford G. Huxford, Nathan F. Lindsey, Simmons Miller, Raymond L. Mixon, Charles Moss, James H. Naher, William H. Ousley, Malcom H. Parker, Roy A. Sadler, Van C. Swearingen, Elbert L. Thompson, James E. Ward, Parker P. Whiddon, William Luther Wood, Elzie L. Blair, Emory Blanton, Charles L. Brooke, Robert L. Coghlan, Otto Mann, Joey Moody, Lum L. Slaughter, Jimmy Robertson, Douglas Gaines, Jimmy Rollins, Jack Stephen Smith, Billy Hartsfield, Paul Raymond Evans, Michael S. Larivier, and Henry Sanders.