Saline County dedicated an everlasting tribute to the living and the dead whose valiant efforts and bitter sacrifice kept the people free, affirming that the monument should serve the cause of peace and preserve the freedoms for which they fought. It invokes the words “Theirs Not to Reason Why, Theirs But to Do and Die” and “Lest We Forget,” and honors Saline County’s fallen from World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Operation Iraqi Freedom, and Operation Enduring Freedom.