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1975 – November 2026
The test: searches for a post-1975, Iraq, or Afghanistan casualty with hometown or home of record Osceola, Indiana were run across the casualty-list classes — the DCAS-based compilations, the Honor the Fallen class, and the county frames — and returned zero Osceola, Indiana names. The one "Osceola" hit anywhere in those lists is a namesake trap and is printed as such: a soldier whose home is given as Reed City, Osceola County, Michigan. The county's own later-wars dead stand at boundary: the index's Iraq entry is South Bend's (Paul Eugene Andersen, killed by indirect fire, attributed to South Bend), and the Congressional Record's 2007 honor roll of the district's fallen names no Osceola man. The direct hometown search of the Military Times Honor the Fallen database was not queryable and stands named in the closing register; at the strength of every list actually reached, the town's later-wars roll is empty, and it is printed as an exact result, not an assumption.
Sources:
- DCAS-based Iraq/Afghanistan death compilations and the Genealogy Trails Indiana Iraq-casualties list — searched.
- Congressional Record, 13 November 2007 (the district's fallen, 23 named) — no Osceola name.
- St. Joseph County veterans index, A page — the Andersen entry at boundary.