A new museum is opening in Texas highlighting the lives and service of Medal of Honor recipients from the Civil War to the ...

National Medal of Honor Museum will open to the public March 25 in Arlington. Here’s what to expect inside the floating gray ...

More than 3,000 service members have received our nation’s highest military honor since 1863. Only one museum tells their stories.

He was sent to Vietnam in 1964, where he would receive the Medal of Honor for his courageous and nearly fatal defense of an American training camp in July of that year. Donlon died on Jan. 25 ...

War heroes and military firsts are among 26,000 images flagged for removal in Pentagon’s DEI purge References to a World War II Medal of Honor recipient, the Enola Gay aircraft that dropped an atomic ...

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It was not until Vietnam, however, that a Black soldier, Riley Pitts, earned both an officer’s commission and the Medal of Honor. Born in Fallis, Oklahoma, on Oct. 15, 1937, Riley Leroy Pitts ...

For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty ... President Barack Obama White House Medal of Honor Ceremony, July 21, 2014 Despite life ...

Now 98, and in Normandy, France ... followed in 2010 with the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest civilian honor given by Congress. Women defense workers also received little notice or ...

Kettles’ awards and decorations include the Distinguished Service Cross, the Legion of Merit, the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Bronze Star Medal with one bronze oak leaf cluster, Air Medal ...

To earn the Medal of Honor, recipients typically have risked their lives and gone beyond the call of duty during their service in the military. Currently, there are only 61 living Medal of Honor ...

Legislation that would quadruple the pensions of Medal of Honor recipients passed the House with unanimous bipartisan support on Wednesday. The bill sailed through the House 424-0. If passed by ...