MSG Earl Plumlee, a Medal of Honor recipient, said that a new law delivering a major increase to living recipients' pensions "balances the scale" between those who served the United States honorably ...
Living Medal of Honor recipients will now receive around $67,500 in annual honorarium under a new law signed Monday by President Donald Trump. (DVIDS) Editor’s note: This story was updated to ...
President Donald Trump signed into law the Medal of Honor Act, which directs the Department of Veterans Affairs to "increase the rate of the special monthly pension payable to living Medal of Honor ...
Survivors recalled arriving at the Wounded Knee camp three days after the fighting, finding a blizzard had buried the frozen bodies of Lakota men, women, children and infants in snow. They described ...
One of the first waves of Marines to hit the beach hug the ground as they land on Iwo Jima on Feb. 19, 1945. (INP pool/AP) On Oct. 5, 1945, President Harry S. Truman placed the Medal of Honor around ...
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Former United States Army Staff Sergeant Ryan M. Pitts once described Gillette Stadium — the home of his beloved New England Patriots — as the NFL equivalent of “church.” Yet, ...
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - In the early 1960s, Kona native Rodney Yano left high school early, motivated to serve in the U.S. Army. The U.S. sent its first troops to Vietnam in 1965. Yano was already ...
Page Six doesn’t spend a lot of time speaking with people in the armed forces. But we should do it more often — not only is it an honor, it turns up some surprising things as well. For one, we were ...
Division is easy. We see it everywhere, in our politics, our neighborhoods, even around our dinner tables. We’ve become so accustomed to disagreeing — and disagreeing badly — that we’ve forgotten how ...
Lawrence City Councilor Marc Laplante has been a local hero for many years, selflessly scouring archives, library records, and researching histories of veterans from Lawrence who either lost their ...
What does it take to charge an entire enemy position alone? This video tells the powerful, true story of a soldier's unflinching bravery and the heroic actions that earned him the Medal of Honor. The ...
Lee Middle and High School conducted its annual induction ceremony for new members to the school’s chapter of the National Honor Society on Oct. 16. After a rigorous selection process, in which ...