The memorial honors the men of Carroll County who gave their lives serving their country in World War I and World War II. Those remembered from World War I are Otis Arvin, Golden Bowie, Frank L. Grimes, Lester Williams Howard, Guy Kirkland, Walter Lewis, Joseph B. Schirmer, Chester Shirley, Homer Joseph Slocum, Earl E. Smith, Millard Trinkle, and Jesse Harsin. Those remembered from World War II are Norman J. Lewellyn, Theodore Blackburn, Riley Junior McIntire, Paul Sutherland, Laverne Craig, Elizie McQuithy, Blan Stout, Gilbert Robbins, Richard Sanders, Robert Herndon, Herbert Eugene Courtney, Cadmus Gardner, Floyd Robbins, James H. Schuerman, Howard Furnish, Beckham Jones, Roy Lee Hicks, Alvin C. Hill, Wilbur R. Yocum, Harold W. Oak, Roy C. Wright, Jr., Austin Meadows, William A. Kopp, John C. Grobmyer, Leonard B. Evans, Richard Lee Ellis, J. M. Williams, Jr., Frank Buckanan, John Edward Mix, Frank G. Aubrey, John William Knigga, and Theo Perkins.