Dale W. Means, age 23, from Jordan, Minnesota, Scott county.
Service era: Afghanistan
Military history: Combat Logistics Battalion 2, Combat Logistics Regiment 2, 2nd Marine Logistics Group, II Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.
Date of death: Sunday, November 18, 2012
Death details: Died while conducting combat operations in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Joshua Roland Anderson, age 24, from Jordan, Minnesota
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Hhc, 6Th Squadron, 8Th Cavalry, 4 Bct, Fort Stewart, Ga
Date of death: Thursday, January 3, 2008
Death details: Hostile; Kamasia, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Edward James Herrgott, age 20, from Shakopee, Minnesota, Scott county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Comapny C 1St Battalion 36Th Infantry Regiment, Apo Ae 09074
Date of death: Thursday, July 3, 2003
Death details: Hostile; Baghdad, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Patrick Francis Cawley, age 22, from Prior Lake, Minnesota, Scott county.
Parents: Vincent Cawley
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Thursday, May 21, 1970
Death details: Hostile, Cambodia
Source: National Archives, Minneapolis Star Tribune (1970)
Thomas Lawrence Ryan, age 19, from Prior Lake, Minnesota, Scott county.
Parents: Lawrence W. Ryan
Service era: Vietnam
Schools: Prior Lake High (1968)
Military history: 118th Aviation Company, 12th Aviation Group, 1st Aviation Brigade
Date of death: Tuesday, March 17, 1970
Death details: Non-hostile, illness, South Vietnam
Source: National Archives, Minneapolis Star (1970)
Roy Harris Jr. Anderson, age 19, from Scott County Windom, Minnesota .
Parents: Mary G. Anderson
Service era: Korea
Date of death: Saturday, September 2, 1950
Death details: On August 31, 1950, the North Korean People’s Army (NKPA) engaged in a large-scale offensive against the U.S. defensive line in South Korea. The defensive position, known as the Pusan Perimeter, was intended to prevent NKPA forces from reaching the harbor in Pusan, South Korea, where American reinforcements would arrive. The late-August offensive allowed the NKPA to penetrate deep into allied territory. On September 3, members of the 9th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division, organized near Yongsan, South Korea and counterattacked the NKPA forces. By September 5, with the help of air and artillery support, the U.S. counteroffensive succeeded in pushing the enemy back across the Naktong River. Corporal Roy Harris Anderson Jr., who joined the U.S. Army from Minnesota, was a member of E Company of the 2nd Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division. He was among men stationed on the Pusan Perimeter who took part in the September 3 counterattack. Corporal Anderson went missing in action at some point during the fighting in early September. He was never seen as a prisoner of war, and searches of the Yongsan area were unsuccessful in locating the corporal’s remains. Today, Corporal Anderson 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, Str Tribune (1950)
Lawrence John Cihlar, age 21, from Scott County New Prague, Minnesota .
Parents: John Albert Cihlar
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Sunday, December 7, 1941
Death details: Died, non-battle
Source: National Archives