Elwood “Pete” Quesada was born in Washington, D.C., in 1904 to a Spanish father and an Irish-American mother. He attended the Wyoming Seminary,…
In August 1967, Ed Dougherty delivered his own draft notice to his childhood home in Marcus Hook, Penn. He had grown up…
Marine Corps Col. Harvey Curtiss Barnum Jr. barely had time to adjust to Vietnam as a young lieutenant before…
James Robert “Bob” Kalsu was born in April 1945 in Oklahoma City, Okla. From a young age, he was exposed…
Lori J. Robinson was born in 1959 in Big Spring, Texas. She attended the University of New Hampshire, where she…
Noble Lee Sissle was born in July 1889 in Indianapolis, Ind. He moved to Cleveland in 1909, graduated from Central…
Donald “Doc” Ballard was born in Kansas City, Mo., in December 1945. Growing up, he helped his family in house construction and entrepreneurial…
Lewis Millett was born in December 1920 in Mechanic Falls, Maine, and was raised in South Dartmouth, Mass. Enlisting in the Massachusetts…
From serving at the highest levels of the U.S. Air Force to working at various prestigious corporations in the private…
Army Tech. Sgt. Ralph George Neppel suffered devastating injuries after being blown up by a tank in Germany toward…
Known as Kentucky’s last World War I Veteran, Robley Rex was born in May 1901 in a rural town in…
Born in December 1939 in Garland, Texas, Lee Buck Trevino was raised in a Mexican family by his mother, Juanita…
Robert Neller was born in February 1953 at Camp Pork, La. He attended East Lansing High School in Lansing, Mich., and graduated in 1971….