East Haddam honors those who gave their lives in war and declares that they will not be forgotten. It names local dead from the Revolutionary War, including Stephon Ackley, Gideon Brainerd, Ichabod Champion, Daniel Ebenezer Cone 3rd, Joseph Cone, Ely Crosby, Chauncey Estabrook, Thomas Lyon, Samuel Estabrook, William Fowler, Bethuel Fuller, Timothy Fuller, Henry Gates, Jonah Gates, Giles Gilbert, Benjamin Graves, William Green, Joseph Hokes, John Hungerford, Jonah Lord, Aaron Lyon, Moses Olmsted, Charles Williams, and Juda Warner; from the Civil War, including Gilbert G. Reynolds, Atwel Benjamin, William Ingraham, Edward M. Lee, John F. Bingham, Joseph E. Andrews, Phineas P. Dowd, Benjamin V. Atwell, Eanard Bartlett, John A. Buell, William E. Brooks, Charles M. Wright, Charles Hyde, Samuel W. Fowler, Edmund C. Boug, William H. Reynolds, John W. Burns, Frederick A. Chapman, Samuel Burke, Andrew J. Palmer, Horatio N. Edwards, Eliphalet Bingham, Michael Hern, Hiram S. Fox, James Wright, Curtis S. Arnold, Albert H. Emmons, Lucien Button, Abner C. Smith, Frederik A. Spencer, James B. Chapman, Samuel W. Beckwith, Francis J. Stevens, Alfred Wheeler, George Grover, and Thomas Francis; from World War I, Louis Yindra; from World War Two, Marvin Baron, James R. Douglas, Wavel B. Smith, Edward J. Mcmullen, Peter P. Golec, and Lewis R. Soffer; and from Vietnam, James Ray Van Cederfeild. It also lists the War of 1812, the Mexican American War, the Spanish American War, the Korean War, the Gulf War, Afganistan, and Iraq.