As a detachment commander with the Army’s 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne) in 1965, then-Capt. Paris D. Davis was one…
Born in December 1918 in Kittrell, N.C., Charity A. Earley was the oldest of four children. Raised in Columbia, S.C.,…
George Neves Leighton was born in Massachusetts in 1912 along with his twin sister after his parents immigrated to America from Cape…
Army Sgt. 1st Class Edward Allen Carter Jr. dealt with a lot of discrimination during World War II, but his…
James Capers Jr. was born during the Jim Crow era to a family of sharecroppers in August 1937. In 1956,…
Army Capt. Paris D. Davis distinguished himself by acts of gallantry and intrepidity above and beyond the call of duty…
In 1969, Army Sgt. 1st Class Melvin Morris waded through a blistering firefight in Vietnam to rescue a fallen comrade…
Navy Chief Commissary Stewart Daniel John Atkins was serving on a ship near Cuba during the Spanish-American War when a…
World War II Army Veteran Gladys Blount grew up in East Orange, N.J., working as a beautician. However, due to…
Born in May 1916 in Los Angeles, California, to missionary parents, Edward Allen Carter Jr.’s early childhood was spent in…