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| Preface | |
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| World War II | |
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| Leonard Smith, Army Tan Corporal, 1942-1945 | |
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| Margaritte Gertrude Ivory-Bertram, Lieutenant, Army Nurse Corps, 1941-1945 | |
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| Luther H. Smith, Air Force Captain, 1942-1947 | |
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| Thomas Hayswood McPhatter, Marine Sergeant, 1944-1946; Navy Reserves Chaplain, 1953-1959; Navy Chaplain Captain 1959-1983 | |
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| Waverly B. Wodson, Jr., Army Medic Corporal, 1942-1945; Army Reserves Sergeant, 1945-1952 | |
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| Gladys O. Thomas-Anderson, Private, Women's Army Corps, 1944-1946 | |
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| James Tillman, Army Sergeant, 1942-1945 | |
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| James Hairston, Navy Steward, 1938-1960, World War II and Korea | |
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| Samuel L. Gravely, Jr., Vice Admiral, Navy Reserves, 1942-1949; Navy, 1949-1980, World War II, Korea, and Vietnam | |
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| Korea | |
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| Charles Armstrong, Army, 1945-1956, Sergeant, World War II; Lieutenant, Korea | |
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| Stephen Hopkins, Army Corporal, 1950-1953 | |
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| Robert Yancey, Navy Cook, 1943-1947, World War II; Navy Reserves, 1947-1950; Army Sergeant, 1950-1971, Korea and Vietnam | |
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| Julius W. Becton, Jr., Army Lieutenant General, 1944-1983; Army Reserves, 1943, 1946-1948, World War II, Korea, and Vietnam | |
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| Vietnam | |
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| Norman Smith, Marine Sergeant, 1964-1967 | |
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| Elizabeth Allen, Army Nurse Corps, Captain, 1967-1969; Army Reserves Major, 1969-1982 | |
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| James Robbins, Army Lieutenant, 1966-1969 | |
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| Donald Rander, Army Sergeant, 1962-1983 | |
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| Olivia Theriot, Air Force Lieutenant Colonel, 1959-1979 | |
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| James Brantley, Army Radioman, Specialist E-3, 1965-1967 | |
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| Marie Rodgers, Colonel, Army Nurse Corps, 1952-1978, Korea and Vietnam | |
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| Alfredo Alexander, Army Private, 1967-1969 | |
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| Persian Gulf War | |
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| Dariton Battle, Marine Sergeant, 1975-1995 | |
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| Janet Pennick, Army, 1974-1977; Army Reserves, 1977-1998 | |
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| J. Alexander Martin, Navy E-4, 1989-1991 | |
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| Lester Outterbridge, Army Private, 1968-1970; National Guard Specialist 4, 1988-1996, Vietnam and Persian Gulf War | |
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| War on Terror | |
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| Anthony LaSure, Air Force Captain, 1989-1999; Air National Guard Major, 1999-present, Operation Noble Eagle | |
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| Eric Mitchell, Air Force Captain, 1996-present, Operation Enduring Freedom, Operation Iraqi Freedom | |
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| Vincent Brooks, Army Brigadier General, 1980-present, Operation Iraqi Freedom | |
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| Acknowledgments | |