In youth, these men of Rockingham County answered their country’s call, left all, endured hardships, faced danger, and died in the path of duty so that others might live in freedom: Earl D. Airhart, George Y. Ailebaugh, Walter Arey, Peachy Armentrout, Oral B. Atkins, George R. Billhimer, Walter Blankenship, William H. Bowman, John S. Bradley Jr, Harry Gordon Bruce, W. Paul Burtner, J. Arthur Clayton, Kennie Henry Deeds, Wade H. Ettinger, Charles F. Fisher, Leon Gentry, James C. Good, Robert C. Harmon, Charles E. Heishman, Sheffie M. Knighten, Isaac L. Lantz, Joseph Cromer Lee, George Frank Life, Vernon Lee Lily, Thomas Bayard Long, Carey F. Miller, Harry Miller, Elijah Minnich, John Minnick, Charles W. Riggleman, Herbert W. Rion, Charles H. Rolston, Samuel H. Rogers, Charles R. Royer, Edward W. Sellers, Reuel Philip Swank, Byrd O. Tracker, John Ray Trussell, George W. Webster, Herbert E. Webster, E. Ward Whitesel, Harry Wirt Wise, Russell H. Wood, Henry Arrington, John Billhimer, Hamilton Brown, John Warren Newman, Ernest Rouser, and Willie Washington.