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Joseph Drake, 100, of Hawley, is one of five surviving U.S. Army Rangers who served in World War II. He received a ...
Actor, producer, and longstanding Hollywood golden boy Brad Pitt has been enchanting audiences ever since his breakthrough ...
Rep. Wesley Hunt objected when Democratic strategist Paul Begala accused President Donald Trump of “pissing on our veterans” during a discussion with comic and pundit Bill Maher. On Friday ...
Meet the valedictorians and salutatorians from Palm Beach County high schools. Click here for the Broward County honorees.
Congressional Medal of Honor recipient Col. Harvey 'Barney' Barnum Jr., honored for heroics during Vietnam War, returned to Cheshire for school naming ...
Weymouth, Ma., will unveil five statues honoring its five Medal of Honor recipients on Memorial Day. Weymouth is the only town in the United States with five Medal of Honor recipients.
U.S. Army Sgt. First Class Jared C. Monti, a native of Raynham, was killed in action in Afghanistan in 2006 and awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously in 2009.
For his actions to protect his fellow Marines, President Harry S. Truman awarded him a posthumous Medal of Honor, which was presented to his family in San Francisco on June 19, 1946.
The Vietnam War was nothing if not loaded with ironies at every conceivable level. The lowest-ranking Medal of Honor recipient in the U.S. Air Force was a case in point: John Lee Levitow ’s ...
President George W. Bush awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Pope St. John Paul II on his visit to the Vatican in June 2004 — the precedent for Biden’s intended visit this month.
The medal was first authorized in 1861 for Sailors and Marines, and the following year for Soldiers as well. Since then, more than 3,400 Medals of Honor have been awarded to members of all DoD ...
Other schools in the state of Florida have been named for Medal of Honor winners. Most recently, in August 2006, Paul R. Smith Middle School in Holiday, Florida was named after Army Sgt.