Christopher Scott Merchant, age 32, from Hardwick, Vermont, Caledonia county.
Service era: Iraq – Operation Iraqi Freedom
Military history: Company A, 3d Battalion, 172d Infantry, (2 Mef), Jericho, Vt
Date of death: Wednesday, March 1, 2006
Death details: Hostile in Ar Ramadi, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Scott Paul Mclaughlin, age 29, from Hardwick, Vermont, Caledonia county.
Service era: Iraq – Operation Iraqi Freedom
Military history: Hhc, 1st Battalion, 172d Armor Regiment, (2 Mef), St. Albans, Vt
Date of death: Thursday, September 22, 2005
Death details: Hostile in Ar Ramadi, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Edward Albert Johnson, age 33, from Caledonia County Hardwick, Vermont .
Parents: Robert Thomas Johnson
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Wednesday, April 10, 1963
Death details: Killed aboard the atomic submarine Thresher when the ship went missing 220 miles East of Cape Cod, Massachusetts
Source: ussthresher.com, Associated Press (1963), oneternalpatrol.com