Farmersville honored those who died in World War I, World War II, Korea, and Vietnam to keep the torch of freedom burning. The dead named for World War I were Joseph W. Aусоск, Thadus O. Gilbert, Justin Gill, Estel Hendrex, Jack L. Lewis, John C. Long, and Carl Sprinkle. Those named for World War II were Earl Becknell, Nolan Bowers, Jack K. Bumpass, Jr., Yandell Cambron, Joe Carver, Jr., William A. Carver, Doyle Clinton, Marvin R. Cooper, William A. Corley, W.J. Dicken, Jr., Neville L. Dillon, L.J. Eubanks, Jesse Ray Gaddy, Max Glass Jr., Weldon D. Hartness, Ray W. Henslee, Dee Holmes, Billy Bain Honaker, Dewey Kimberlin, Landrum W. Leech, Jesse D. Massey, Loyd R. McCrary, Chester D. Messer, Parnell Millican, James W Montgomery, Vance Parker, James A. Riddle, Thomas L. Rike, Edgar M. Seay, Cleo W. Stanford, Nolan Thomas, Raymond Thompson, James T. Wright, and Edwin Yeary. Those named for Korea were James Alley, David R. Bickley, and Joaquin Villanueva, and the name given for Vietnam was Thomas G. Caraway. It declared that the real heroes of war are those who never came home and invoked Francis Scott Key's 1814 words about free men standing between their loved homes and war's desolation, alongside the U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, U.S.A.F., Coast Guard, and Marine Corps.