Members of the Wood Dale community served and sacrificed for the preservation of freedom. Those named are Air Force Master Sergeant Frederic C. Willhoit, March 19, 1982; Second Lieutenant Hans Gussarson, July 18, 1944, World War II; Army Private Harold R. Schuld, October 10, 1944, World War II; Private First Class Joseph C. Bleffer, January 7, 1945, World War II; Private First Class Edward F. Becker, January 30, 1946, World War II; Corporal Lyle Francis Kell, December 2, 1969, Vietnam War; Sergeant Phillip John Essig, August 15, 1968, Vietnam War; Marine Corps Private First Class Thomas John Mead, June 3, 1969, Vietnam War; Lance Corporal Conrad T. Lange, June 9, 1967, Vietnam War; Lance Corporal Christian J. Porter, February 24, 1991, Persian Gulf War; and Lance Corporal Daniel M. Lynch, September 6, 1969, Vietnam War.