During World War II, from 1 September 1939 to 2 September 1945, men and women of the Waconia community were called to serve their country in campaigns and theaters including Poland, the Battle of the Atlantic, Pearl Harbor, Bataan, Corregidor, Coral Sea, Midway, Guadalcanal, North Africa, Bismarck Sea, Salerno, Tarawa, Kwajalein, Normandy, Southern France, the Rhine, the Marianas, Leyte Gulf, the Philippines, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, and Japan. It honors those who served and remembers the dead, including GM2c Vincent W. Uecker, killed 11 Sep 1943; Pvt Donald A. Johnson, killed 6 May 1944; Sgt Frank Vojtisek, killed 27 Feb 1945; T Sgt Jerome L. Gorres, killed 13 Jun 1945; and S1c George Wm. Greengo, killed 27 Sep 1945. For the Korean War, from 25 June 1950 to 27 July 1953, men and women of the Waconia community answered the call to defend a country they never knew and a people they never met, demonstrating through their actions that freedom must be vigilantly guarded, with remembrance for the dead, the missing, the captured, and the wounded. For Vietnam, from 28 February 1959 to 7 May 1975, Waconia area veterans are honored and appreciated, and U.S. casualties are given as K.I.A. 58,156, W.I.A. 303,704, and M.I.A. 2,338.