Private Malachi Edward Oliver
United States Marine Corps, World War I

Bernice Lovell Oswalt Moore McGee
United States Navy Reserve, World War II, Yeoman Second Class
Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES)

Early Life in Rural Texas

March 27, 2025 - In the event of rain, the Memorial program will be moved inside the Historic Courthouse and in the J.J.E. Gibson Room downstairs.

March 24, 2025 - The Vietnam War Veterans Recognition Act of 2017 was signed into law by 45th US President Donald J. Trump, designating March 29th as National Vietnam War Veterans Day. On March 29, 1973, 52 years ago, the last US Combat Troops departed Vietnam, and Hanoi released the last of its acknowledged prisoners of war.

March 4, 2025 - 26 years ago, on March 24, 1999, NATO launched an air campaign called “Operation Allied Force” to halt the humanitarian devastation that was then unfolding in Kosovo.  The decision to intervene followed more than a year of fighting within the province and the failure of international efforts to resolve the conflict by diplomatic means.

NATO announced the suspension of the air campaign on June 10, 1999, once it had concluded a military technical agreement with the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

February 17, 2025 - On January 16, 1991, President George H. W. Bush announced the start of what would be called Operation Desert Storm—a military operation of coalition forces from 34 nations to expel occupying Iraqi forces from Kuwait, which Iraq had invaded and annexed months earlier. When the war ended on February 28th, 1991, 148 Americans had died in battle.