From left: Willie Cox, American Legion Post 502; Chuck Lewis, Senior Vice Commander VFW Post 4904; Samuel Anderson, Commander American Legion Post 502; and Hill Yates, Commander VFW Post 4904, salute Decatur County’s veterans who have passed away in the last year during the annual Veterans Day Service in Willis Park on Monday morning. Guest speaker Jody Fuller, a veteran and a comedian, spoke about the importance of all of the U.S.’s soldiers, past, present and future.

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Veterans we have lost since Nov. 11, 2018

Robert Jerome Alday U.S. Army

Louie F. Barr U.S. Army National Guard

Charles Carroll Bell U.S. Navy

Marvin Dillard Blevins U.S. Army

Kenneth E. “Ken” Blocker U.S. Navy

Leonard Lewis Boyette U.S. Army National Guard

Carlton Jackson “C.J.” Brinson, Jr. U.S. Navy

Billy J. Cowger U.S. Army

Joey Glen Daniels U.S. Army

Hubert C. Dodson U.S. Merchant Marines

Richard Douglas U.S. Air Force

David Edmonds U.S. Army

Charles Alexander Eubanks U.S. Army

Harold Levi Fleshman, Jr. U.S. Army

Charles Edward “Fitz” Fitzgerald, Jr. U.S. Army

Lawrence Jay Frank, Jr. U.S. Navy

Carroll Winston Harmon U.S. Marines

Jesse Reginald Hatton U.S. Army

Richard Leon Joy U.S. Marines

Bruce Wheat Kirbo U.S. Air Force

James Willis Matthews U.S. Army

James B. McCollum U.S. Navy

Robert Pope McNair U.S. Army

Wallace Humphrey Pope U.S. Navy

Dorsey Lee Rose U.S. Navy

Lavone Eugene “Gene” Scott U.S. Army National Guard

Donald Ernest Vulgamore U.S. Army

Charles White, Jr. U.S. Navy

James William “Jim” White U.S. Air Force

Willie Daniel “Bill” Williams U.S. Navy

William B. Martin U.S. Army