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1975 – November 2026
The test: searches for a post-1975, Iraq, or Afghanistan casualty with hometown or home of record Walkerton, Indiana were run across the casualty-list classes — the DCAS-based compilations, the state Iraq and Afghanistan casualty lists, and the county frames — and returned zero Walkerton, Indiana names. The state's own lists are hometown-keyed and were read for the county: the one St. Joseph County name they carry in the Iraq roll is Air Force Technical Sergeant Ryan Andrew Balmer of Mishawaka, killed 5 June 2007 — the county's, printed at boundary, and not this town's. The Congressional Record's honor roll of the district's fallen, read in the Osceola pass, names no Walkerton 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. The town's service in those years is not empty — it stands in the posts article, in a Legion post full of the wars' veterans — but its death roll is, and the file keeps the two apart.
Sources:
- Genealogy Trails, Indiana casualties in the Iraq wars (Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom lists) — searched; the Balmer entry at boundary.
- DCAS-based post-1975 death compilations and hometown searches run — negative as stated.
- Congressional Record, 13 November 2007 (the district's fallen) — as read in the Osceola pass.