Melissa Harcrow didn’t see herself as having very much ambition while growing up in El Paso, Texas. She described herself…
This is the story of a camp, a boy, another camp and the courage and faith to face evil. Mauthausen…
Mary “Missy” Cummings had originally been advised to join the Air Force growing up, often being told it was a better environment…
Frederick Pokorney Jr. was born in August 1971 in San Antonio, Texas. He spent most of his life in Nevada and…
Army Sgt. 1st Class Edward Allen Carter Jr. dealt with a lot of discrimination during World War II, but his…
Col. Ruth Cheney Streeter served in the Marine Corps as the first director of the U.S. Marine Corps Women’s Reserve. She…
Leland Chandler enlisted in the Army in 1941 at just 18 years old, leaving home in central Illinois to serve…
Carol A. Mutter dedicated almost 32 years of her life to a career in the Marine Corps. Growing up on a sharecropping farm in Greeley,…
Robert Primeaux had grown up on a Lakota Reservation as a member of the Standing Rock Sioux Nation of Fort…
Lee Marvin upheld a tough-guy persona on and off the screen—from the Pacific Theater to Hollywood. Born in February 1924…
Kathleen Carroll was born in Nebraska and moved to San Pedro, Calif., during World War II. During the war, her…
Command Sgt. Maj., Gretchen Evans served worldwide in her deployments with the U.S. Army. Evans grew up in Abilene, Texas, and enlisted…
As an officer in the USS Franklin’s engineering department during World War II, Navy Cmdr. Donald Arthur Gary knew all…