Col. Joseph William Kittinger Jr. is a decorated Air Force Veteran whose service career spanned 29 years, during which he…
Navy Machinist Charles H. Willey never expected to have to save the lives of his crewmates during a peacetime…
Robert Anson Heinlein was born in Butler, Mo., in July 1907. The arrival of Halley’s Comet in 1910 sparked his…
Francis Stuart Low was born in 1894, in Albany, N.Y., where his family lived before moving to Newton, Mass. Low…
U.S. Army Soldiers of 1st Battalion, 68th Armor Regiment, 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, gathered with veterans…
David C. Schilling was born in December 1918 in Leavenworth, Kansas. Before joining the military, he attended Dartmouth College in New Hampshire….
Robert Roland Ingram was born in Clearwater, Fla., in 1945. After graduating high school in 1963, he joined the Navy…
Holland McTyeire “Howlin’ Mad” Smith was born in April 1882 and grew up in Alabama. He graduated from high school in…
Grace F. Thorpe was born in Oklahoma in December 1921 to Iva Miller and Jim Thorpe. Her mother was Cherokee…
When Army Staff Sgt. Edward Noboru Kaneshiro learned his fellow soldiers were in trouble in Vietnam, he didn’t hesitate to…
Gil Hodges was born in April 1924, in Princeton, Ind. He was the middle of three children and had a…
Roberto Clemente was born in August 1934 in Carolina, Puerto Rico. He was the youngest of seven children. In 1954, the Pittsburgh…
Fitzroy “Buck” Newsum was born in New York City, N.Y., in 1918. At age one, he moved to the island of Barbados, where he…