Theodore Roosevelt Jr Medal of Honor on D-Day. The oldest man and the only General Officer to land in the first wave. His son was landing on Omaha Beach at the same time. Honor and remember!

Honor and remember Turner Turnbull, killed in action on June 7, 1944, after his heroic leadership on D-Day.

I get goosebumps every time I read this: “Even though large tracts of Europe and many old and famous States have fallen or may fall into the grip of the Gestapo and all the odious apparatus of Nazi rule, we shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight … Read More

Battle of Midway commenced 82 years ago today. Honor and remember the 307 Americans killed in action in this key battle in the Pacific War.

Oliver Hazard Perry, the great American naval officer and Rhode Islander, led the United States to victory on Lake Eerie in 1813 over the British, after building a fleet of eight ships. He motivated his men with a giant battle flag emblazoned with the dying words of his friend, James Lawrence: “Don’t Give Up The Ship!” Lawrence, commanding the USS … Read More

Clarence Craft earned the Medal of Honor on Okinawa when he single-handedly attacked and seized a Japanese hill, chasing the defenders into a cave and then blowing them up with a satchel charge. Honor et memores.  He served in Korea and then left the Army, volunteering later at the VA in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Read his Medal of Honor citation:

Rudolfo Hernandez, an Army paratrooper, earned the Medal of Honor on this day in Korea when he, despite grave injuries, beat back a Chinese communist attack.  Hernandez was horribly wounded in combat, and appeared dead, but a medic saw him move his fingers and started the life saving steps. Hernandez woke up a month later in an Army hospital and … Read More

Lincoln Memorial dedicated on this day in 1922.

David Champagne earned the Medal of Honor posthumously when he saved three fellow Marines from a Chinese communist grenade, which he seized and flung out of his trench during fighting around the Punchbowl in 1952. From Wakefield, RI, Champagne worked in community theater prior to enlisting in 1951. Honor and remember him, Semper Fidelis!

Olympian Louis Zamperini’s plane crashed in the Pacific eight year ago yesterday, starting his ordeal as a POW as detailed in “Unbroken” by Laura Hillenbrand – a must read! Honor and remember Zamperini and his fellow airmen.