[ Marker Front ]

[ Center Section ]

—?— (The Great Seal) —?—

Dedicated to these Johnson

County men who, in answering

the call of duty, paid the

Price of Freedom

– (Seal) – United States Army

– (Seal) – United States Navy

– (Seal) – United States Marine Corps

– (Seal) – United States Air Force

[ Lower Left Section ]

* * * World War I * * *

( Names - Read Left to Right )

William C. Abraham ? Jesse Bradley ? Maurice C. Brown ? Chester Harland Durham ? - - ? James Russell Edmonds ? Albert Gosman ? Chileen S. Harter ? Victor Able Hunt ? - - ? John E. Jones ? Russell Henry Klyver ? Bryon B. Knowlton ? George League ? - - ? Franklin Earl Morgan ? Ora H. Mullinix ? Harry A. Nicholson ? Grover Roscoe Pitcher ? - - ? Fred B. Riddle ? James Robinson ? Homer L. Rush ? Carroll D. Shuck ? - - ? William L. Snow ? Henry Oscar Surface

[ Lower Right Section ]

* * * World War II * * *

( Names - Read Left to Right )

Joseph Applegate ? Marion E. Barnett ? Stanley M. Barnett ? John Hayden Beam ? - - ? Wilson Dale Bills ? Marcus Bledstein ? William Orland Bradley ? George Breckenridge ? - - ? Robert W. Brown ? William Brown ? Julius S. Bryan ? Merle E. Bryant ? - - ? John P. Buchanan ? Archie N. Bullock ? Fred Bullock ? Harry Burgett ? - - ? Merle Jackson Clark ? Cecil Milo Clore ? Leon E. Clemmer ? Leland Cox ? - - ? John Henry Cox ? Edward E. Covert ? Allen E. Crandall ? Harold Crater ? - - ? Wallace Curry ? Paul DeBrular ? Victor R. Deer ? Kenneth A. Devore ? - - ? Claude E. Doty ? Chester L. Doyle ? Jack N. Durbin ? Dale Ellett ? - - ? John Ferguson ? John Marion Flake ? Robert K. Fox ? Eldridge Gartman ? - - ? Gladson Gonterman ? Oscar C. Harris ? Frank Hartman ? Rolland H. Hatch ? - - ? Paris E. Hicks ? Ralph Hill ? Oscar Hill ? Wayne Eugene Hill ? - - ? Ralph M. Hollandback ? Louis H. Jones ? Arthur Legan ? Lawrence Lewark ? - - ? James Lewis ? Louis Lind ? Glancy Lucas ? Bennett J. Mackey ? - - ? Jack Manning ? William McCreary ? Myon McCurry, Sr. ? Thurman Miles ? - - ? Robert Ival Miller ? William B. Norman, Jr. ? Everett E. Patterson ? Albert Perry ? - - ? George E. Pettit ? Russell M. Pike ? John F. Pitney ? James E. Poynter ? - - ? Jack Ray ? Robert E. Richardson ? Kenneth N. Rider, Jr. ? Robert A. Robins ? - - ? Marvin R. Russell ? John J. Sledge ? Warren Shriver ? Bernard P. Smith ? - - ? Gilbert Smith ? Joseph Smith ? Philip Smith ? Virgil L. Smith ? - - ? Clarence R. Stanley ? Claude H. Stephens ? William W. Stockton ? James R. Sullivan ? - - ? Gerald D. Sutton ? Clifford W. Swift ? Olley Thomas ? Tommy Thompson ? - - ? Loy Underwood ? Norman Vandivier ? Harold VanAntwerp ? Claris VanWinkle ? - - ? Wendell Vest ? Richard Wales ? Raymond Walker ? Glen Walker ? - - ? James W. Watson ? Melba L. Watson ? Otis H. Wagerman ? Clayton Weddle ? - - ? Raymond Wells ? William J. Whitlock ? Harold E. Williams ? Gene Wright ? - - ? Elmer Gay Wright ? Robert N. Kidwell ? George L. Lambert

[ Lower Left Section ]

* * * Korean Conflict * * *

( Names - Read Left to Right )

Thomas A. Averitt ? Kenneth G. Boss ? Milton Cecil Byrd ? Dayton Leroy Caplinger ? - - ? Alva E. Catt ? Fulton Cosby ? Russell E. Dake ? William M. Fisher ? - - ? Robert B. Graham ? Claude Lee Harper, Jr. ? Mayo Heath ? Henry W. House, Jr. ? - - ? William Myers ? Robert B. Neville ? William G. Porter ? Edward Rairdon ? - - ? Clarence R. Warder ? James Gordon Wheeler

* * * Vietnam Conflict * * *

( Names - Read Left to Right )

Jerry Dean Adams ? Richard Patrick Blanton ? James Eugene Brewer ? John W. Bryant ? - - ? Muriel Cole ? Donald Crane ? Ronald Warren Duckett ? Larry Ray Glover ? - - ? William James Karas ? Neal A. Lord, Jr. ? Garry C. McFetridge ? William E. McGinnis ? - - ? Randy Cois Moore ? Robert Stephen Raines ? Larry James Rigney ? Robert Wayne Vehling ? - - ? Jimmie Keith Williams

[ Upper Left Section ]

* * * Iraq * * *

Brian D. Hazelgrove ? Paul M. Heltzel ? Joseph E. Proctor ? Gary M. Henry

* * * Afghanistan * * *

James A. Waters

[ Obverse Side ]

We stand before you today

the same way we faced the enemy

shoulder to shoulder.

We’re American fighting men-

and we’ve never forgotten it.

[ Battles Noted - Around Base ]

(Obverse)

Belleau Wood – Chateau Thierry – Meuse Argonne – Pearl Harbor – Wake – Dakto – Coral Sea – Tet – Midway – Tarawa

(Front)

Hue – Pork Chop Hill – Heartbreak Ridge – Iwo Jima – Okinawa – Normandy – The Bulge – Marshall Islands – Guam – Inchon

Marker is at the intersection of Jefferson Street and East Court Street, on the right when traveling east on Jefferson Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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