From 1776 to 2012, 1,813 local men and women served in the armed forces of the United States of America, and 50 of them died far from the safety of their home hills and valleys. Remembered as family members, friends, and neighbors taken in the spring of life, they endured homesickness, constant fear, and hostile, friendless lands, and gave their life’s blood to protect a free land and the safety of their families from enemies and tyrants. Their names are Brown, Glenn; Brown, Wendell; Bojarski, Konstanty; Budinski, Chester; Casey, Theodore R.; Clinton, Thomas; Coyle, Ross; Crabbs, Herald; Crumbly, Byron; Dillon, Harvey; Edwards, Clifford; Fellows, Charles; George, Thomas; Gerne, Boston; Grimm, William L.; Hartsouk, Charles W.; Hendrix, Kenny; Heston, Loren A.; Holligan, William; James, James; Jurkiewicz, Raymond J.; Kula, Paul; Lewers, Foster A.; Lewis, John J.; Montgomery, Robert; Morrow, Jack; Parsons, George S.; Parsons, William E.; Porter, John; Potts, David; Repella, Metro; Rex, William; Rhodes, David; Ritchie, Robert; Salisbury, Delbert; Shalaty, Felix; Shanley, Edward; Shultz, William K.; Staten, James; Stewart, John; Stone, Willard R. Jr.; Striker, Enos; Sweeney, John; Teeman, Vernan; Wade, Samuel H.; Walters, Alfred; Warner, Ben; Worthington, Jack; Wrikeman, Jay; and Wycoff, Issac N.