The strangest things can happen in war, as Air Force Staff Sgt. Cesar Flores found out personally from the seat of a Humvee near Camp Bucca in southern Iraq 15 ...
Nearly a decade ago, Army Sgt. Lisa Marie Wiley lost her leg when she stepped on an IED. Her new home will help her more easily accomplish what used to ...
MELBOURNE, Fla. — Frederick Riefkohl was the first Puerto Rican to graduate from the U.S. Naval Academy. A World War I hero who led a successful showdown with a German ...
Lori Piestewa was born on the Hopi Indian Reservation in 1979 and was raised in a family that instilled in her both a strong Catholic faith and the character of ...
There are badasses, and then there’s Senior Master Sgt. Robert Gutierrez Jr., an Air Force combat controller who received the Air Force Cross after a desperate firefight in Afghanistan in ...
With Veterans Day approaching, hundreds of neighbors, friends, family members, veterans and other supporters on Saturday cheered on Corporal Kevin ... source
On Sunday, Dec. 7, 1941, Ensign Francis Flaherty began his morning duties like everybody else aboard the USS Oklahoma, which was tied up along “Battleship Row” with the rest of ...
Many people who are in the military have to spend time away from their families. In some cases, it may be during a time when a skirmish or perhaps even ...
This young man was born to a large family in the Kentucky mountain country. His family was poor and hardworking. They lived a simple life, a self-sufficient life of subsistence ...