Jason Carr, age 24, from Halifax, Virginia, Halifax county.
Service era: Gulf War
Date of death: Wednesday, February 27, 1991
Death details: Died when helicopter he was aboard crashed.
Source: White House Commission on Remembrance, Gulf War Chronicles; Library of Virginia, Richmond
James Edward Palmer, age 23, from Halifax County Halifax, Virginia .
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Sunday, November 28, 1971
Death details: Killed in a helicopter crash in South Vietnam.
Source: National Archives
George Lee Morningstar, age 27, from Virgilina, Virginia, Halifax county.
Parents: Eunice Morningstar
Spouse: Nell Morningstar
Children: Stepson Brad Morningstar
Service era: Vietnam
Schools: Elon College High (1961); Wake Forest University graduate
Date of death: Monday, March 16, 1970
Death details: Killed in Vietnam when a Navy EC121 spy plane with 31 crew aboard crashed into a hanger and started on fire.
Source: National Archives, UPI (1970), Associated Press (1970)
Robert Edward Carmichael, age 28, from Vernon Hill, Virginia, Halifax county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Friday, January 2, 1970
Death details: Killed in Vietnam
Cemetery: Mount Vernon Baptist Church
Source: National Archives, Danville Register (1970)
Hugh Robert Frazier from Halifax County Virgilina, Virginia .
Parents: Hugh R. Frazier
Service era: Korea
Date of death: Unknown
Death details: By mid-November 1950, U.S. and Allied forces had advanced to within approximately sixty miles of the Yalu River, the border between North Korea and China. On November 25, approximately 300,000 Chinese Communist Forces (CCF) “volunteers” suddenly and fiercely counterattacked after crossing the Yalu. The 2nd Infantry Division, located the farthest north of units at the Chongchon River, could not halt the CCF advance and was ordered to withdraw to defensive positions at Sunchon in the South Pyongan province of North Korea. As the division pulled back from Kunu-ri toward Sunchon, it conducted an intense rearguard action while fighting to break through well-defended roadblocks set up by CCF infiltrators. The withdrawal was not complete until December 1, and the 2nd Infantry Division suffered extremely heavy casualties in the process. Sergeant Hugh Robert Frazier joined the U.S. Army from Virginia and was a member of Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division. On November 30, 1950, he was captured by enemy forces near Kunu-ri, as his unit made its fighting withdrawal toward Sunchon. SGT Frazier was marched to Camp 5 prison camp in Pyoktong, North Korea, where he died in April 1951. He was not identified among remains returned to U.S. custody after the war, and he is still unaccounted-for. Today, Sergeant Frazier is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific. His name is also inscribed on the Korean War Veterans Memorial Wall in Washington, DC, which was updated in 2022 to include the names of the fallen.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Richmond Times Dispatch (1951)