FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. — It was March 12, 1971, in northern Vietnam’s Quin Tri, when the gun truck, “Proud American,” was struck by two B40 shoulder-fired rockets, destroying the vehicle, killing the ...
More than half a century later, 14 soldiers of Bravo Company were formally awarded Bronze Star Medals for their actions in ...
CHICAGO -- For more than a decade, Harold Walker's Purple Heart Medal was lost. The Vietnam War veteran kept the medal in a safe deposit box - but then his bank closed. And when the new bank couldn't ...
A Vietnam War veteran of the U.S. Navy from Sturgeon Bay might be awarded the medal denied him and other veterans on a technicality if a bipartisan bill introduced by Wisconsin legislators is passed ...
WO1 John Stephen Chrin graduated from Lebanon Catholic High School in 1967. He attended Mansfield State College when he ...
WHEELING — Pfc. Russell Frank McLaughlin answered the call of duty to his country in 1967, and just months later paid the ...
In observance of Purple Heart Day, Pennsylvania Treasurer Stacy Garrity returned a Purple Heart Medal to the son of a late Vietnam War Veteran. Joined by Senator Chris Gebhard (R-48) and ...
David Dedrick, of East Greenbush, and Joseph Pollicino of Loudonville, both Vietnam War veterans, have been selected to receive a Rev. Francis Kelley Liberty Medal.
A Vietnam War veteran was honored with a high school diploma five decades after he left school.It happened during the Northwest Local School District Board of Education meeting on Monday night.Thomas ...