(WASHINGTON) — “We didn’t do it for recognition. We did it out of duty to one another and to our country.” Those are the humble words of Pfc. John Wardell, 99, as he and U.S. Army Ranger veterans from ...

Dominic Bersani received the diploma through a state program that gives certificates to veterans who left school to serve ...

Dominic Bersani, a World War II Navy veteran, celebrated his 99th birthday recently by getting his high school diploma and several awards for military service.

A lost Purple Heart medal was given back to a World War II veteran’s family 35 years after his death just in time for Veteran ...

Close to 15 million Americans served in the military during World War II. But the Medal of Honor, the nation’s highest award for combat bravery, was awarded just 473 times. The first was awarded to a ...

Steve Woodson offers remarks during a ceremony to posthumously award the Distinguished Service Cross to his father, U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Waverly Woodson Jr., a medic who was part of the only Black ...

Thank you. That was the message from City Councilman Alex Straatman when he presented two World War II veterans with a medal and a certificate at Brookestone Gardens on Thursday afternoon. “Thank you ...

WATERLOO | When Robert Manahl headed back to the United States after World War II, medals were the last thing on his mind. "When the war ended we didn’t care about medals. We just wanted to get home.

CRANSTON, R.I. (WPRI) — When General Douglas MacArthur accepted Japan’s surrender during World War II in Tokyo Bay, John DeLeo of Johnston was there. DeLeo enlisted in the Navy at the age of 17 and ...

Only three Jewish World War II soldiers received a Congressional Medal of Honor and one of them is from Michigan. FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich. (WXYZ) — A Jewish World ...

“We didn’t do it for recognition. We did it out of duty to one another and to our country.” Those are the humble words of Pfc. John Wardell, 99, as he and U.S. Army Ranger veterans from World War II ...