Patrick County Military Wall Of Honor
"War is fought by human beings." -- Ernest Hemingway
From Samuel Crowley to Jonathan Bowling
Patrick Countians have made the ultimate sacrifice for their country.
Read more about these two men by clicking here.
This webpage is a tribute to those who gave all for their home in the Free State Of Patrick.
All quotes on the page are from Ernest Hemingway.
"In stories about the war I try to show all the different sides of it, taking it slowly and honestly and examining it from many ways. So never think one story represents my viewpoint because it is much too complicated for that."
War In Iraq
"When you go to war as a boy you have this great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed; not you. It can happen to other people; but not to you. Then when you are badly wounded the first time you lose that illusion and you know it can happen to you. After being severely wounded two weeks before my nineteenth birthday I had a bad time until I figured out that nothing could happen to me that had not happened to all men before me. Whatever I had to do men had always done. If they had done it then I could do it too and the best thing was not to worry about it."
Corporal Jonathan Bowling United States Marine Corps
November 24, 1981-January 26, 2005
Click Here To Learn About the Jonathan Bowling Scholarship
Vietnam
"If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry."
Private First Class ROGER DALE BOWMAN, United States Army
Sergeant (SP4) FREDERICK CURTIS BULLINGTON, United States Army
Corporal BOBBY LARRY CORNS, United States Army
Lance Corporal JOHN MATHAS JAMES, United States Marine Corps
Private First Class BERNARD ALLEN SOWDER, United States Army
Warrant Officer LARRY JAMES TALLEY, United States Army
Click Here To Learn More About Patrick County In Vietnam
KOREA
"There is no man alive today who has not cried at a war if he was at it long enough. Sometimes it is after a battle, sometimes it is when someone that you love is killed, sometimes it is from a great injustice to another, sometimes it is at the disbanding of a corps or a unit that has endured and accomplished together and now will never be together again. But all men at war cry sometimes..."
BERNARD R. KOGER
TROY L. THOMAS
TOM WOOD
WORLD WAR TWO
"We have waged war in the most ferocious and ruthless way that it has ever been waged. We waged it against fierce and ruthless enemies that it was necessary to destroy. Now we have destroyed one of our enemies and forced the capitulation of the other. For the moment we are the strongest power in the world. It is very important that we do not become the most hated...We need to study and understand certain basic problems of our world as they were before Hiroshima to be able to continue, intelligently, to discover how some of them have changed and how they can be settled justly now that a new weapon has become a property of part of the world. We must study them more carefully than ever now and remember that no weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one..."
HASSELL G. ANDERSON
JOHN V. ANTHONY
RICHARD G. AYERS
SYKES L. BEASLEY
THOMAS C. BINGMAN
HARLIN H. BOYD
WINFRED B. BRANCH
WARREN G. BRIM
JOHN T. CAMPBELL
ESTEL C. CONNER
GLEN R. CORN
GUY E. CORNS
JOHN H. DALTON
HOWARD E. DAWSON
LEONIDAS C. DICKERSON, JR.
JOHN J. DILLON
WILLIAM D. DUNCAN
EUGENE C. FOLEY
JOHN W. GATES, JR.
HARBOUR GILLEY
DALLAS J. GOIN
LEONARD A. HAZELWOOD
JAMES R. HEATH
ARTHUR R. HIATT
CECIL F. HUBBARD
ELMER L. HUBBARD
CECIL H. HUBBARD
PATEN A. JEFFERSON
RAYMOND W. JOYCE
ELISHA J. KNOWLES
GUY D. MABE
HERBERT L. MARSHALL
JAMES J. MARTIN
SHUBLE W. MARTIN
FRANK MILLS
ORBY M. NESTER
RICHARD M. PALMER
WILLIAM R. PALMER
JAMES A. PORTER
WILLIS G. POWELL
BUREN D. RAKES
ELMER F. RAKES
CECIL G. ROGERS
PAUL W. RORRER
CARL W. SHELOR
MAURICE W. SHELOR
THOMAS H. SHELOR
JOHN D. SHOUGH
FLOYD G. SMITH
SILAS W. SMITH
ISAIAH J. SPENCER
HARRY L. STOWE
FRANK W. TAYLOR
GORDEN L. TRENT, JR.
JOSEPH H. VIPPERMAN
JOEL G. WILLIAMS
LEONARD E. WILLIAMS
ROBERT M. YATES
CLAUDE A. YEATTS
Click Here To Learn More About Patrick County In World War Two
Monument on the Patrick County Court House Grounds to World War Two and Korean Veterans Who Gave Their Lives
Click Here To See The Patrick County Court House Markers
WORLD WAR ONE
"An aggressive war is the great crime against everything good in the world. A defensive war, which must necessary turn to aggressive at the earliest moment, is the necessary great counter-crime. But never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime."
SPANISH-AMERICAN
"Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings on worse things than can ever happen in a war."
CIVIL WAR
"...as they get further and further away from a war they have taken part in have the tendency to make it more as they wish it had been rather than how it really was."
Click Here To Learn More About Patrick County in the Civil War
American Revolution
"It is very dangerous to write the truth in war and the truth is very dangerous to come by. When a man goes to seek the truth in war he may find death instead. But if the twelve go and only two come back, the truth they bring will be the truth, and not the garbled hearsay that we pass as history."
Samuel Crowley
William Letcher
Learn More About Patrick County In the American Revolution Here
"The world is a fine place and worth fighting for."
"Day is done, gone the sun, From the lake, from the hills, from the sky, All is well, safely rest, God is nigh.
Fading light, dims the sight, And a star gems the sky, gleaming bright. From afar, drawing nigh, falls the night.
Thanks and praise, for our days, 'Neath the sun, 'neath the stars, neath the sky, As we go, this we know, God is nigh.
Sun has set, shadows come, Time has fled, Scouts must go to their beds, Always true to the promise that they made.
While the light fades from sight, And the stars gleaming rays softly send, To thy hands we our souls, Lord, commend."
-- Taps
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The Patrick County Veterans Memorial Building Contains the Wall of Honor.
It was dedicated in 2006.
