During the Vietnam War, Joseph B. Adams, Jimmy I. McMorris, Michael E. Banks, Reginald G. Morse, Roy J. Brackwell, Jr., Sanford L. Nelson, Frankie B. Johnson, Jr., Willie J. Payne, Robert E. King, Cary J. Smith, Milton B. Luster, Sammie R. Sneed, Leon S. Madden, Dennis C. Stroud, Willie E. Madden, John W. Teague, Joseph O. McGee, Danny S. Thompson, James C. McKitkrick, and William E. Wilson gave their lives, and Frankie B. Johnson, Jr., James C. McKitkrick, and William E. Wilson were missing in action; alongside their names appears the biblical verse, “Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends,” from John 15:13.