As melodic notes spilled from the rim of a silver trumpet over the balcony and resounded on the stone walls of Gold Star Hall, those gathered stood in silence to remember lost veterans whose names were added to the Hall.

The dedication ceremony, held Tuesday in the Memorial Union, honored three servicemen, Capt. Edward Stewart, Capt. Robert Lee Leathers and Lt. Earle Aaron Hanselman Jr. As the ceremony ended, families and friends shared memories of their lost loved ones.

“Young people of today, especially students, sometimes don’t realize how much freedom has cost us,” said Janet Stewart Husby, daughter of Capt. Edward Stewart.

Stewart enrolled in the chemistry program at Iowa State in 1930, but later changed to agricultural engineering.

It was during Stewart’s service in World War II for a U.S. Army Reserve Officer Training Corps Artillery Unit that he was struck by an enemy shell in Italy. He died on Nov. 29, 1943, at the age of 33.

Stewart was awarded the Purple Heart and the Legion of Merit.

A history of Iowa State was in Stewart Husby’s family as well as the family of Lt. Earle Aaron Hanselman Jr. Hanselman enrolled at Iowa State as a student in 1961 and was later trained in naval flight with the ROTC.

During a sonar research mission on the Mediterranean Sea during the Vietnam Conflict on Aug. 14, 1965, the helicopter Hanselman was co-piloting crashed into the sea, killing Hanselman. Two of his four-man team survived.

Capt. Robert Lee Leathers came to Iowa State from Fairfield in the late 1940s and was a part of the ROTC program, graduating in 1952 with an industrial engineering degree. Leathers died at age 29 on Nov. 18, 1960 when the aircraft he was flying over the Pacific Ocean went down off the coast of Okinawa, Japan. Pieces of the crash were never found, and memorials were held for Leathers in Japan, Hawaii and the continental United States. In 1961, a memorial marker was placed in Arlington National Cemetery honoring Leathers.