Patrick Lee Lybert, age 28, from Ladysmith, Wisconsin, Rusk county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Troop C, 3D Squadron, 71St Cavalry, Fort Drum, New York
Date of death: Thursday, June 22, 2006
Death details: Hostile; Gowardesh, Afghanistan
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Nathan Jon Vacho, age 29, from Ladysmith, Wisconsin, Rusk county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: 489Th Civil Affairs Battalion, Knoxville, Tennessee
Date of death: Friday, May 5, 2006
Death details: Hostile; Baghdad, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Robert Allen Pulaski, age 20, from Ladysmith, Wisconsin, Rusk county.
Parents: Helen M. Becker
Service era: Vietnam
Schools: Tony High graduate
Date of death: Tuesday, August 3, 1971
Death details: Non-hostile death in South Vietnam
Source: National Archives, Wisconsin State Journal (1971)
Joseph Thomas Shimko, age 26, from Rusk County Ladysmith, Wisconsin .
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