William David O’brien, age 19, from Rice, Texas, Multiple county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Company C, 1St Battalion, 28Th Infantry, 4 Bct, Fort Riley, Kansas
Date of death: Saturday, March 15, 2008
Death details: Hostile; Baghdad, Iraq. Killed by small arms fire.
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Timothy Lee Gauna, age 21, from Rice, Texas, Navarro county.
Service era: War on Terror
Date of death: Thursday, October 12, 2000
Death details: Died aboard the U.S.S. Cole when suicide bombers detonated an explosive-laden boat against the ship’s port side, tearing a 40-by-40-foot hole in the hull and sending seawater gushing into the engineering compartment.
Source: Department of Defense
Samuel Waymon II McDaniel, age 19, from Corsicana, Texas, Navarro county.
Parents: Velma Beamoon
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Thursday, July 8, 1971
Death details: Non-hostile death
Source: National Archives, UPI (1971), Associated Press (1971)
Zane Christie, age 22, from Eureka, Texas, Navarro county.
Parents: Gene Christie
Spouse: Kathy
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Sunday, October 25, 1970
Source: National Archives, Corsicana Daily Sun (1970)
Ronald Michael Blue, age 20, from Corsicana, Texas, Navarro county.
Parents: Violet Blue (preceded in death) and John Blue
Service era: Vietnam
Schools: Corsicana High graduate, Navarro Junior College
Date of death: Sunday, May 24, 1970
Death details: He was on a combat operation in Cambodia when a hostile force was encountered
Source: National Archives, Corsicana Daily Sun (1970)
Clarence W. Swiney from Texas, Navarro county.
Service era: Korea
Date of death: Friday, December 15, 1950
Death details: On December 15, 1950, the 1st and 2nd Battalions of the U.S. Army’s 7th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division, were defending positions northwest of the town of Hamhung, North Korea, when they came under attack from Chinese Communist Forces (CCF). The attackers surrounded a platoon of the 2nd Battalion’s Company G, cutting them off from other friendly troops. Relief forces made repeated attempts to break through the CCF encirclement, but failed to free the surrounded troops of Company G. The 1st and 2nd Battalions were eventually ordered to withdraw toward the coast to avoid being overrun in the CCF offensive. Corporal Clarence Weldon Swiney, who joined the U.S. Army from Texas, was a member of Company G, 2nd Battalion, 7th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division. He went missing in action on December 15 during the battle around Hamhung. He was never reported as a prisoner of war, and he remains unaccounted for. Today, Corporal Swiney is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Candeloro B. Garcia, age 27, from Navarro County Corsicana, Texas .
Parents: Louis B. Garcia
Spouse: Josephine F. Garcia
Children: Joe Robert, 8; Mary Louise, 2; Candeloro B. Garcia Jr., 10 months
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Sunday, December 10, 1944
Death details: Killed in action in Germany
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Corsicana Daily Sun
Victor Ed Watts, age 23, from Navarro County Corsicana, Texas .
Parents: T.T. Watts
Service era: World War II
Schools: Corsicana High (1936)
Date of death: Sunday, December 7, 1941
Death details: Killed aboard the USS Arizona. Remains not recovered.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Corsicana Semi Weekly Light (1941)
Clyde Fetty, age 23, from Richland, Texas, Navarro county.
Service era: World War I
Date of death: Friday, November 1, 1918
Death details: Killed in action
Cemetery: Memorialized at Richland, buried maa
Source: Soldiers of the Great War, findagrave.com, findagrave.com
Egbert P. C. Fulton, age 24, from Blooming Grove, Texas, Navarro county.
Service era: World War I
Date of death: Friday, October 18, 1918
Death details: Killed in action
Cemetery: Rose Hill in Blooming Grove
Source: Soldiers of the Great War, findagrave.com